New Media Research Institute

Matt, Reagan, Carey, James, Markus

Table consensus: Very important.
Issues:
Community support
Proprietary formats
Coders available
Different licenses (BSD vs GPL, etc)

Alternatives: may be proprietary and not free, but open API necessary

Streaming video
Storage
Framing for all that blue (compression)
DVD and p2p delivery
Partners: Akami, Limelight
Professional vs other usage

Matt, Reagan, Carey, James, Jim, Markus

1. Academic credit for contributing materials.

2. Positive case studies and success stories. Accompany with press releases.

3. Use metrics for content providers. Credit acknowledgment through use metrics.

4. Deriving commercial value based on DO material.

5. Can we increase the research value by building a global index?

6. Can we increase the value of DO by providing a representation of the ocean and keeping currrent?

1. Maintain an index and repository for all DO related content (with resolver)

2. Provide k-12 school access to remote instrumentation/cameras. Drive a bot remotely.

3. Incubator. Fund special projects.

4. Digital modeling of The Ocean.

5. Conservancy.

6. Foundation for operation of DO.

7. Kiosks and displays for museums. IMAX movie.

Bruce Caron has been contracted as the Project Manager for the planning phase of DigitalOcean. This effort is funded by the Paul G. Allen Family Foundation through a grant and a gift to UC Santa Barbara.