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A: Gregory Moses on Wisconsin Multimedia Technology for Distance Education
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A: 1. Project description (one or two sentence description)
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A: Web-basd digital video viewer and authoring tool that produces two simultaneous
A: video streams, a powerpoint frame, a table of contents (allowing random access)
A: and an external links frame for the purpose of delivering video on demand for
A: educational and other purposes.
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A: 2. PACI relevance of the project (how it relates to PACI goals/strategies)
A: The tool will allow productions of simulation results in the form of video and
A: a "talking head" to explain the work in an educational setting.  It will allow
A: lectures to be produced for viewing via the web. 
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A: 3. Potential audience or user base
A: All PACI ET and AT projects and all EOT projects, as well as any person wanting
A: a low cost way to produce digital video productions quickly and easily.
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A: 4. Partnership links both internal (AT/ET/EOT) and external; can include
A: potential "targets of opportunity" for partnership 
A: Currently producing a Condor tutorial using this tool. The video tool was
A: supported by NPACI and the Condor work was supported by NCSA. 
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A: 5. Diversity and universal access issues
A: Yet to be addressed, but we will.
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A: 6. Barriers (with technology or other areas)
A: Network speed is the major barrier to dissemination of this technology, but
A: this is improving.
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A: 7. Status of project (i.e. planning, development, production)
A: Viewer is in alpha phase. It is being used for production of two demo's by
A: knowledgible users. Authoring tool is in development with expected alpha
A: release in Spring.
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A: 8. Dissemination avenues - contributions to the literature (i.e. reviewed
A: journals, conference presentations, etc.)
A: This will be presented at numerous meetings (SC 99) and conferences, once past
A: beta release and with some high quality content. Expect to start next summer.
A: The software will be available via download from the web, once it is released.