Library

1. Video Asset Management

Users searched a video database of Wisconsin Public Television's Weekend news show by keyword. Results of the search tool are presented as "thumbnail" images identifying specific program segments, timecode, and closed-captioned text. Selected segments can then be viewed using Real Media Player. This demonstration is a model for future Internet2 enabled access of shared video assets and their retrieval at broadband speeds.

As well, producers from Wisconsin Public Television's Digital Innovations Unit demonstrated the encoding, logging, and database creation using tools from Virage, Inc.
http://www.virage.com/

Representatives from Mediasite, Inc. demonstrated their video asset management tools.
http://www.mediasite.com

2. iCAIR Video Portal
http://www.icair.org/

A selection of live and server-based Internet2 video assets can be accessed through this search tool and gateway developed by International Center for Advanced Internet Research at Northwestern University. "Live channels" routed through STARTAP included C-SPAN, the Canadian Parliamentary Channel, and WTIU-TV, from Indiana University.

3. Public Television Video Portal
A model public television, Internet2 distribution service including both live and server-based, production quality (MPEG-2) video content.

4. Collaborative video production
Using broadband MPEG over IP codecs (provided by Minerva Networks), producers will be able to exchange, view, and discuss real-time video segments. Live connections between Madison and WPSX-TV (PSU) and KWSU-TV (WSU) will be established.

5. Video Editing, Sonic Foundry
http://sonicfoundry.com
Representatives from Sonic Foundry, a Madison-based Internet production software company, will demonstrate their latest PC-based non-linear video production tools.

6. Asset Mapping tools
http://www.softbicycle.com/
Project manager Steven Vedro, will demonstrate the use of Questmap™ software combined with Business Process Modeling techniques developed by Bell Atlantic. The Reforging the Links project has extensively used these tools for meeting facilitation and documentation and future business model design.

7. WebTV, Interactive Broadcasting
A demonstration of the "enhancement" of local television with web-based overlays and hypertext links to university and community-based content resources.