[Sigdl-l] FW: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Internet 2 Apps Council "Lecture Object" Survey

[Richard Hill]

[Forwarded.  Dick Hill]

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Richard B. Hill
Executive Director
American Society for Information Science and Technology
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-----Original Message-----
From: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition [mailto:CNI-ANNOUNCE at cni.org]
On Behalf Of Clifford Lynch
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 2:35 PM
To: CNI-ANNOUNCE -- News from the Coalition
Subject: [CNI-ANNOUNCE] Internet 2 Apps Council "Lecture Object" Survey

The Applications Council of Internet2 (of which I am a member) has 
just released a survey to try to get a better understanding of the 
standards and practice landscape for the storage and potential 
interchange of what we are calling, for want of a better term, 
"lecture objects". Clearly, there are many institutions beyond the 
Internet2 membership which active in this area, and we'd welcome 
input from them as well. I have reproduced below the announcement 
that has gone out to the Internet 2 membership (and apologize to 
those on CNI-announce who are also I2 members for the duplication).

Obviously, CNI shares common interests with Internet2 in this area, 
and we will be coordinating carefully on future directions. I expect 
that we'll share what we learn from this survey with the  CNI 
community, though I don't yet know exactly what mechanism we'll use.

Thanks for your assistance.

Clifford Lynch
Director, CNI (and member, Internet 2 Applications Council)

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The Internet2 Applications Strategy Council invites you to participate
in a survey on Lecture Objects now available on line at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=79613943804

The Lecture Object survey will be open from Wednesday, March 30 through
Friday, April 22, 2005.

For purposes of this survey, the Lecture Object is defined as a digital
object composed of lecture video, audio, support graphics, slides, with
important metadata about the contents. In simple terms this includes
audio/video of a speaker merged with synchronized presentation
materials, typically PowerPoint that has additional metadata/information
attached to support searching an archive of Lecture Objects.

Some component of almost every Internet2 member institution is actively
capturing Lecture Objects for storage, retrieval and playback today, but
each in its own way. The lack of widely accepted approaches to capture,
post-production, storage, indexing, retrieval or playback means not only
that work is being duplicated unnecessarily, but that our shared
community of users has no easy way to find and play back Lecture Objects
from other places other than by doing individual searches and using a
variety of playback tools that have differing network and platform
requirements.

The Internet2 Lecture Object project seeks to first understand current
practices by members of our community, and then evaluate the
promulgation of standard frameworks for the capture, production,
storage, retrieval and playback of Lecture Objects. Findings will be
shared with the Internet2 members.

We appreciate your assistance in collecting information about your
organization's use and interest in Lecture Objects. We hope you will
pass this information onto colleagues who you think would have interest
in or are currently working with Lecture Objects.

The Lecture Object survey will be open from today, Wednesday, March 30,
2005 through Friday April 22, 2005. Please go to
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=79613943804 to complete the survey.

Thank you.

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