List of Work Items and Deliverables

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:

• TERENA task forces
• EUNIS e-Learning group: http://wiki.eunis.org/
• Opencast Community: http://www.opencastproject.org/
• Steeple project: http://www.steeple.org.uk/
• CineGrid: http://www.cinegrid.org/
• Standardisation bodies

Univ. Vigo
(Vicente Goyanes de Miguel)

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