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Streaming 7000 films...<br />
Uwe Sander<br />
Institute <strong>for</strong> Scientific Film<br />
Germany<br />
How to create a unique source <strong>for</strong> educational media in <strong>the</strong> internet<br />
The German Institute <strong>for</strong> Scientific Film (IWF) is a major european non profit producer of scientific videos. It's<br />
archives contain about 7000 films, videos, laserdiscs and CD-ROMs. These media are unique, but difficult to access<br />
outside of Germany. They may be a source <strong>for</strong> education in most fields of science, including biology and o<strong>the</strong>r<br />
natural sciences, cultural anthropology and medicine. In 1998, IWF started to publish its videos and o<strong>the</strong>r media in<br />
<strong>the</strong> internet. The end of this year, about 500 media are expected to be online, including videos, Virtual Reality<br />
(QuickTime VR and VRML) and interactive modules (Shockwave, Java).<br />
To fulfill this task, a lot of different issues had to be addressed, including legal, technical and scientific aspects. In<br />
<strong>the</strong> presentation, focus will be laid on technical issues. Avid systems have been used to digitize and optimize videos.<br />
QuickTime 3.0 and Real Video has been used to render preview quality of media. For higher bandwidth, we provide<br />
MPEG 1. A presentation of <strong>the</strong> website www.cells.de, containing about 50 videos and o<strong>the</strong>r media, will show <strong>the</strong><br />
first implementation of this educational source.