PEACHES
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PEACHES (Panel of Experts on Arts, Culture and Humanities E-Support) will collect and review information on network requirements, performance and specific techniques (like sound, video and lighting setups) that are needed for collaborative performances over the network. Novel uses of networking technologies, like applications in the Arts and Humanities area that are not related to collaborative environments, are also of interest to the panel.
Recent years have witnessed examples of successful uses of high-speed networking technologies for enabling live collaborative performances, remote auditions and visualisations. To date, many of these events remain successful yet isolated examples of collaboration between communities in areas of arts and humanities with support people in the network technology professionals. Expertise from sound, video and lighting experts was also required for some of the events.
The National Research and Education Networks strive to bring high-bandwidth connectivity to institutions. Further than raw bandwidth, the NRENs also provide advanced services to the connected institutes. Examples of such services include Multipoint Conferencing Units in support of videoconferencing and monitoring and troubleshooting network performance issues through Performance Enhancement Response Teams (PERTs). Coupled with expertise available at the level of campus networks that supply the infrastructure for local laboratories or performance scenes, these services form a powerful enabler mechanism for novel applications of networking technologies.
TERENA formed a panel of voluntary experts with the aim to foster wider use of telecommunication networks in the Arts and Humanities domain. The panel members bring together expertise ranging from data transmission technologies, network monitoring and PERT, videoconferencing and other live collaboration environments, music and visual arts.
The task of the expert panel is to collect and review the information available on network requirements, performance and specific techniques (like sound, video and lighting setups) that are needed for collaborative performances over the network. Novel uses of networking technologies, like applications in the Arts and Humanities area that are not related to collaborative environments, are also of interest to the panel. The panel will liaise with other national and international groups of experts, for example the Internet2 Arts and Humanities Initiative.