The VidMid-VoD working group is dormant for now, due to time constraints on its participants. Please contact Steve Olshansky, VidMid-VoD working group flywheel, with questions or comments.

Minutes || Mailing List || Documents || Links

 
VidMid, the video working group of the Internet2 Middleware Initiative, exists to further the development of middleware for digital video and related areas. The working group was formed by the Internet2 Middleware Initiative and ViDe, the Video Development Initiative; ViDe members provide much of the leadership for the group. VidMid will initially focus on resource discovery and authentication for point-to-point and multi-point videoconferencing, and similar middleware requirements for video on demand, data collaboration, and voice over IP. Most of VidMid's work takes place in the VidMid-VC (videoconferencing) and VidMid-VoD (video on demand) subgroups. VidMid seeks to partner with other efforts and working groups that share similar interests.

NOTE WELL: All Internet2 Activities are governed by the Internet2 Intellectual Property Framework.

 

Minutes of VidMid VoD Conference Calls
October 14, 2003 May 14, 2003 January 15, 2003 December 18, 2002 July 17, 2002 May 30, 2002	April 10, 2002 January 16, 2002 December 19, 2001 December 5, 2001	November 26, 2001 November 7, 2001 October 19, 2001

Mailing Lists

VidMid has three mailing lists: vidmid-vc for videoconferencing issues, vidmid-vod for video-on-demand issues, and vidmid for other issues and for general announcements. To subscribe, send email to sympa at internet2 dot edu, with the *subject line*:

subscribe <list name> <your name>

subscribe vidmid-vod Jane Doe

To unsubscribe, send email to sympa at internet2 dot edu, with the *subject line*:

unsubscribe <list name>

Draft Documents

These documents are works in progress. For more information on the status of these documents, see the Internet2 Document Guidelines. For reference see also the Internet2 Document Library.

• Directories in Video on Demand (NMI-EDIT Document)
  James W. DeRoest, University of Washington/ResearchChannel, Mairéad Martin, University of Tennessee - Knoxville, May 2002
• Why Video Needs Middleware
  Ken Klingenstein, 9 July 2001
• Directory Scenarios for Video on Demand
  Mairead Martin,University of Tennessee - Knoxville, 29 May 2001

Links - Technical

• Dublin Core Metadata Initiative

Links - Standards

• MPEG-7 Multimedia Content Description Interface