This is a Web page based on the original Appendix F of the report of the working group on video conferencing at the University of Hertfordshire. It should be accessible via the staff development unit's Web pages. It does not pretend to be a complete list of relevant material on the Web, but should provide a useful starting point.
The JANET server at http://www.ja.net/ holds information about the JANET network, the services it provides, and the community who use it.
An extensive collection of videoconferencing information can be found here, at http://www.ja.net/video/. This includes documentation of the JANET video-conferencing strategy, the JANET videoconferencing services, videoconferencing advisory services, and other useful sources of information.
UKERNA, successor to the JNT, is the not-for-profit company which manages the operation and development of the JANET networks. The UKERNA WWW Server is at http://www.ukerna.ac.uk/.
UKERNA funded a project to evaluate ISDN codecs and videoconferencing systems. The results can be seen at http://av.avc.ucl.ac.uk:80/isdn_video/ or at http://www.ja.net/video/advisory/product_advice. Desktop systems are covered in the TERENA database at http://www.terena.nl/projects/device/databank1/.
The SIMA project (Support Initiative for Multimedia Applications) has a large number of online reports available at http://info.mcc.ac.uk/CGU/SIMA/simapj.html including a staff developer's guide to video-conferencing and a report on video-conferencing in HE.
There is a page of links to a variety of sites dealing with aspects of video-conferencing at http://www.visc.vt.edu/succeed/othervidc.html and some distance education success stories including video-conferencing at http://www.uwex.edu/disted/success.html.
The TLTP 'Insurrect' Project (video-conferencing for teaching medicine) has a Web page at http://av.avc.ucl.ac.uk/tltp/.
The International Multimedia Teleconferencing Consortium, Inc. (http://www.imtc.org/main.htm) is an industry body aiming to promote the adoption of standards for teleconferencing products and to conduct interoperability testing.
James A. Malcolm