Proposal of a City Scientific and Educational Center of the Multimedia Technologies in Collaboration with JINR and University “Dubna”

V.A. Butyaev2, A.V. Chepigin1, E.N. Cheremisina2, V.V. Korenkov1, Y.A. Kryukov2, E.G. Nikonov1

1 - Joint Institute for Nuclear Research, Dubna, Russia
2 - Dubna University

Nowadays a great evolution of computer techniques and highly increasing speeds of the data transmission in local and global networks give us wide possibilities for multimedia integration into scientific and educational fields.

Video studio created in the LIT (JINR) is supposed to be a foundation of “Media Center” project. The main purpose is to way out to a new high-quality level of a visual conception in scientific, exploration and experimental work of JINR, large scientific and educational collaborations.

An existing city backbone educational network is considered to be an important factor in the project and it will help to solve the following problems:

  • Research efforts in multimedia telecommunications
  • Media data on demand: collecting, storing, indexing and searching
  • Creation and processing media data, such as video and audio
  • Video conferencing, Internet-broadcasting, installation development.

In fact, these directions are actively worked out in compliance with a realizable conception of the project.