Internet2 Overview
and
Arts & Humanities Initiatives
Ann Doyle
Manager, Arts & Humanities Initiatives
International Council of Fine Arts Deans, Oct 2003
Internet2 Overview
Internet2 Mission
Develop and deploy advanced network
applications and technologies, for research
and higher education, accelerating the
creation of tomorrow’s Internet.
Internet2 is a not for profit membership
organization
Regular
•US institutions of higher education
Corporate
•Partners
•Sponsors
•Members
Affiliate
•Non-profit and other research or
education organizations
Internet2 Universities
202 University Members, February 2003
Additional Participation
Over 60 Internet2 Corporate Partners,
Sponsors and Members
Over 30 Affiliate Members
Over 30 International Partners
Sponsored Education Group Participants
Internet2 Corporate Partners
Internet2 Affiliate Members
Altarum
Jet Propulsion Laboratories
American Distance Education
LaNet
Consortium
Manhattan School of Music
Association of Universities for Research
MCNC
in Astronomy (AURA)
Merit Network, Inc.
CENIC
MOREnet
CERN
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia
NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
Cleveland Institute of Music
National Institutes of Health
Cleveland Museum of Art
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration – Silver Spring
Department of Commerce, Boulder
National Science Foundation
Desert Research Institute
EDUCAUSE
New World Symphony
Food and Drug Administration
NYSERNet, Inc.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Oak Ridge National Labs
Indiana Higher Education
OARnet
Telecommunications System (IHETS)
OneNet
PeachNet
Southeastern Universities
Research Association (SURA)
Southwest Research Institute
State University of New
York System
State University System of
Florida
Survivors of the ShoahVisual History
Foundation
University Corporation for
Atmospheric Research
University of Missouri System
University of North Carolina,
General Administration
International MoU Partners
APAN-KR (Korea)
ARNES (Slovenia)
BELNET (Belgium)
CANARIE (Canada)
CARNET (Croatia)
CERNET, CSTNET, NSFCNET (china)
APAN (Asia-pacific)
CESnet (Czech republic)
CUDI (Mexico)
DANTE (Europe)
DFN-Verein (Germany)
AAIREP (Australia)
Fundacion internet 2 Argentina (Argentina)
GIP RENATER (France)
GRNET (Greece)
HEAnet (Ireland)
HUNGARNET (Hungary)
INFN-GARR (Italy)
Israel-IUCC (Israel)
JAIRC (Japan)
JISC/UKERNA (UK)
JUCC (Hong Kong)
NORDUnet (Nordic countries)
POL-34 (Poland)
RCCN (Portugal)
RedIRIS (Spain)
RESTENA (Luxembourg)
REUNA (Chile)
RPN2 (Brazil)
SENACYT (Panama)
SingAREN (Singapore)
Stichting SURF (Netherlands)
SWITCH (Switzerland)
TAnet2 (Taiwan)
TERENA (Europe)
09January
January 2002
Last updated: 14
2003
Abilene International Peering
(January 2003)
STAR TAP/Star Light
Pacific Wave
AARNET,
APAN/TransPAC†,
CA*net, TANET2
APAN/TransPAC†, CA*net, CERN, CERNET/CSTNET/NSFCNET,
NAUKAnet, GEMnet, HARNET, KOREN/KREONET2, NORDUnet,
SURFnet, SingAREN, TANET2
NYCM
SNVA
GEANT*,
HEANET,
Washington
NORDUnet,
SINET,
SURFnet
GEMNET,Sacramento
SINET,
SingAREN,
WIDE(v6)
LOSA
Los Angeles
UNINET
OC12
San Diego (CALREN2)
CUDI
El Paso (UACJ-UT El Paso)
CUDI
AMPATH
ANSP,
REUNA2,
RNP2, RETINA
(REACCIUN-2)
•ARNES, ACONET, BELNET, CARNET, CERN, CESnet, CYNET, DFN, EENet, GARR, GRNET, HEANET, IUCC, JANET, LATNET, LITNET, NORDUNET,
RENATER, RESTENA, SWITCH, HUNGARNET, GARR-B, POL-34, RCST, RedIRIS, SANET, SURFNET
•† WIDE/JGN, IMnet, CERNet/CSTnet,/NSFCNET, KOREN/KREONET2, SingAREN, TANET2, ThaiSARN
Sponsored Education Group
Participants
Abilene Network
Abilene Network
Core Map, February 2003
Abilene Network Infrastructure
Backbones operate at 2.4 Gbps (OC48) to
10 Gbps (OC192) capacity today
GigaPoPs provide regional highperformance aggregation points
Local campus networks provide 100 Mbps
to the desktop
Applications
Internet2 Applications
What are “Internet2 applications”?
They deliver qualitative and quantitative
improvements in how we conduct research
and engage in teaching and learning
They require advanced networks to work
Different Disciplines/Contexts
Sciences
Library
Arts
Classroom
Humanities
Clinic
Health care
Office
Business/Law
Laboratory
Administration
Dorm room
…
…
For example … Remote Collaboration
Virtual Room Videoconferencing
System (VRVS) & the
Access Grid
Support multipoint videoconferencing, where distributed
reflectors spread computationally
expensive responsibility
For example … Science & Engineering
High Energy and Nuclear Physics
(HENP)
Generating multi-petabyte datasets,
gigabytes per second per experiment,
requires a cascading data storage model,
near-zero packet loss per data stream,
and a distributed database for end-user
data manipulation.
Each experiment requires input from
hundreds of researchers around the
world.
Network for Earthquake Engineering
Simulation (NEESGrid)
Running hybrid experiments,
synchronizing physical and computational
experiments.
Synchronizing large volumes of data of
different types: sensor, video, etc.
For example … Health Sciences
3D Brain Map
• Visualization of data: real-time MRI,
previously stored data, etc.
• Computational information transferred to
supercomputers and used to understand
brain functions in real time
• Very large multi-dimensional, multi-modal,
time-varying data sets
Biomedical Informatics Research Network
(BIRN)
• Extremely large data sets and repositories
• Dynamically generate 3D visualizations
from medical records
• Generating 36Gbytes/day, so new models
for search, retrieval and analysis will be
necessary
Arts & Humanities Initiatives
Streaming Media
Indiana University
Georgetown University
Gallaudet University
Variations – Indiana University
ASL Poetry
Georgetown University
Gallaudet University
Master Classes
University of Oklahoma
New World Symphony
Columbia University
Manhattan School of Music
University of Oklahoma
Felicia Moyer
New World Symphony
Michael Tilson Thomas
photo by R. Andrew Lepley
Columbia University, Manhattan
School of Music and CANARIE Inc.
Pinchas Zukerman
Live Performance Events
Cultivating Communities:
Dance in the Digital Age
Case Western Reserve and
Cleveland Institute of Music:
The Bing Theater, University of Southern California, Oct 2002
Cultivating Communities:
Dance in the Digital Age
University of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaign:
The Bing Theater, University of Southern California, Oct 2002
Technophobe and the Madman
New York University and
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute:
Transcontinental Poetry Reading:
A Tribute to Kenneth Koch
 Live transcontinental
reading of Kenneth
Koch's "Twenty Poems"
 Seven Internet2
campuses provided
videoconferencing
Poet Anne Waldman
Virtual Event, Hosted by Columbia University, April 2003
Talk to your ICFAD Colleagues!
Screen writers course:
• Bradley University
• California State University, Los Angeles
Adapt collaborative dance project:
• University of Utah
• Ohio State University
• Arizona State University
• University of California, Irvine
• Florida State University
Digital Radio programming:
• University of South Florida
• University of Washington
Video Clips
Virtual Halloween at the Rialto
New World Symphony Master Class
Kinetic Shadows
Advisory and Working Groups
Performance Archive
and Retrieval
 A working group jointly sponsored by
• Coalition for Networked Information
• Internet2
 Designed to propose standards and best
practices for documenting, archiving, and
retrieving the recordings of performances
such as live theatre, musical compositions,
and dance
Performance Archive and
Retrieval Working Group
Produced two white papers:
•Capturing Live Performance Events
(http://arts.internet2.edu/files/performancecapture(v09).pdf)
•Digital Asset Management
(http://arts.internet2.edu/files/digital-assetmanagement(v09).pdf)
• (compiled, edited and authorship contributions by
University of Michigan intern, Leilani Dawson)
Performance Archive and
Retrieval Working Group
Capturing Live Performance Events:
•Current practices in the field of digitallyrecorded performance
•Three budget categories: consumer,
prosumer, professional
•Scenarios: fixed site, fieldwork/mobile
setup, multi-site
•Lighting, video, audio
Performance Archive and
Retrieval Working Group
Digital Asset Management:
•Intellectual property
•Metadata standards, schemas,
frameworks, and formats
•Search and retrieval
•Digital collection software/systems
•Putting it all together
Internet2 Performance Arts
Advisory Committee
Assist in the planning of innovative events
that highlight the gifts of performers and
artists from our member institutions and
the capabilities of Internet2 technologyenabled performances
•Best practices guide to multisite performance events
Humanities Advisory Group
 Plans advanced networking activities in
the Humanities arena
 Interest and activities are underway in the
areas of museum education, language
learning technologies, forensic debates, and
film history
 Discussions will focus on current activities
and brainstorming future ones that might be
enhanced by advanced networking
applications
New Arts & Humanities
Communities
New Communities
 Museum Community
• Presented at Museums and the Web,
March 2003
• Cleveland Museum of Art
 Foreign Language Instruction:
• Presented at the 2003 International
Association for Language Learning
Technology conference (IALLT)
 Archaeology Forum
More Info ...
www.internet2.edu
adoyle@internet2.edu
apps.internet2.edu/talks/
Ann Doyle
Internet2
3025 Boardwalk Suite 100
Ann Arbor, MI 48108
+1.734.352.7011
www.internet2.edu