List of Work Items and Deliverables

The following NRENs, research organisations and academic institutions have expressed
their willingness to contribute to the work items and deliverables:

CESNET, ETH Zurich, FCCN, JANET(UK), NIIF, RedIRIS, SURFnet, SWITCH,
Universidad de Vigo, Østfold University College, UNINETT, Universidad Carlos III de
Madrid, UPMC - Université Pierre et Marie Curie, CARET-University of Cambridge, ...

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Description

Leader /
Interested parties

A

Knowledge dissemination and service promotion:

  • Organize interesting talks with speakers both from within and outside the TF-Media participants.      
  • Work together to disseminate and promote media production, management and distribution
    services and use cases to the academic community.
  • Discuss the legal issues at the European, national and university levels
    (including schools' perspectives)
  • Liaise with TF-PR on service promotion.

TBC

JANET(UK)                            

B

Overview of (national) activities, deployments and services:

  • Gather information on relevant projects, activities, deployments and services at national levels.
  • Collect best practices and service requirements.
  • Publish on the TF-Media wiki on an ongoing basis.

SURFnet
(Frans Ward)

CESNET
UPMC

C

Coordinating/Collaborating media production, management and distribution service
development and deployment activities:

Various media management and distribution services or service components are already provided by some
of the NRENs and large universities. The aim of this work item is to:

  • Investigate the potential service architectures and open standards.
  • Harmonise the workflow processes to help the service roll-out.
  • Collect, compare, where possible share, the open source service modules.

CESNET
(Michal Krsek)

SWITCH
RedIRIS
University of Vigo
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
UPMC

D

Fostering federated media content and/or metadata repositories:

  • Collect recommendations on the metadata levels, structures and formats to ensure the better
    searchability.
  • Describe the problem space of using the NREN AAI federations with media content storage and
    repository services.
  • Facilitate the creation of federated content aggregating metadata from different organisations.
  • Liaise with TF-EMC2 to find a path to solve the problems and/or suggest suitable workarounds
    (e.g., non-web based federated access).
  • Liaise with TF-Storage on content storage issues.

RedIRIS
(Jose-Maria Fontanillo)

Universidad Carlos  III de Madrid
University of Vigo

E

Investigate and liaise with other communities:

Univ. Vigo
(Vicente Goyanes de Miguel)

ETH Zurich - OpenCast
RedIRIS – TFEMC2
University of Vigo, UPMC - EUNIS
CESNET - CineGrid
CARET - Steeple

New work items or deliverables may be added as the Task Force sees fit.

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