diglib: DigitalWell project @ UW

["Andrew R. Bonamici" <bonamici@uoregon.edu>]

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All:

I attended this CNI presention & found it very interesting as an example of 
integrated digital libraries, institutional repositories, and on demand 
streaming media. If Jim's presentation appears on the CNI site I will post 
a link; in the meantime most of the details are available on their website, 
<http://www.digitalwell.org>

Some quick notes:
- This as an open source project & they will share tools.
- It is designed for interoperability with DSpace, Fedora, Content DM, & OAI
- It will port to OKI at the common services level
- At UW, it is being tightly integrated with the Catalyst faculty 
clearinghouse <http://catalyst.washington.edu/>
- Access control is with pubcookie & UW group authentication; will migrate 
to Shibboleth
- For encoding video, they use Virage falong with another application 
called FlipFactory.

BTW Jim is a UO alum & seemed quite willing to either come down here for a 
visit, or have a group of us go up to Seattle to learn more about this project.

best,

ARB

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DigitalWell Media Asset Management, Delivery, and Application

Jim DeRoest
Director, Streaming Media Technologies, ResearchChannel
University of Washington

The ability to receive high quality audio and video in classrooms, labs, 
and the home opens up new opportunities for learning and research in genres 
requiring high resolution media such as animation arts, musicology, and 
life sciences. Building upon foundation work in high resolution media 
streaming, the University of Washingtons Research Channel is developing a 
tera-scale on-demand media management and distribution service called 
DigitalWell. This service will broaden access to multi-discipline photo, 
audio, and video collections enabling the development of new teaching and 
learning tools for mining and manipulating content.

This session will include an overview of DigitalWell, discussion of 
deployment for broadcast and campus environments, and NSF NSDL directory 
metadata development for the Library of Congress/AMIA Moving Image 
Collections grant.

Web Links:
http://www.digitalwell.org