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TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 23 January 2009 - SZTAKI, Budapest

TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 23 January 2009 - SZTAKI, Budapest Dr. Márta Nagy-Rothengass Dr. Stefano Bertolo DG Information Society and Media Unit E2 – Technologies for Information Management. PRESENTATION OUTLINE. Part 1 Work Programme European Policies Content

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  1. TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT 23 January 2009 - SZTAKI, Budapest Dr. Márta Nagy-Rothengass Dr. Stefano Bertolo DG Information Society and Media Unit E2 – Technologies for Information Management

  2. PRESENTATION OUTLINE • Part 1 Work Programme • European Policies Content • Role of IST/ICT • Community Interest • Domain of activities • Part 2 Practical Tips and Hints • Contacts data

  3. FP7 ICT Work Programme Part 1 Policy & Work programmes Calls for Proposals in 2007

  4. INTRODUCTION EUROPEAN COMMISSION The Information Society and Media Directorate General Directorate E Digital Content & Cognitive Systems (Luxembourg) E1: Interaction & Interfaces E2: Technologies for Information Management E3: Cultural Heritage & Technology Enhanced Learning E4: Access to Information   E5: Cognitive Systems & Robotics E6: eContent and Safer Internet E7: Administration and Finance

  5. Mission statement of DG INFSOINFORMATION SOCIETY • Support innovation and competitiveness in Europe through excellence in ICT research and development. • Define and implement a regulatory environment that enables rapid development of services based on information, communication and audio-visual technologies, so fostering competition that supports investment, growth and jobs • Encourage the widespread availability and accessibility of ICT-based services, especially those that have the greatest impact on the quality of life of the citizens. • Foster the growth of content industries drawing on Europe’s cultural diversity. • Represent the European Commission in international dialogue and negotiations in these fields, and promote international cooperation in ICT research and development.

  6. I2010 • Full alignment of cohesion and information society policies on the Lisbon agenda • i2010: a comprehensive strategic framework for information society policies in Lisbon • The i2010 priorities reflected in the SF programming guidelines • Community cohesion and rural development spending targeted towards supporting the Lisbon Strategy: • Earmarking of cohesion expenditures to Lisbon (60% for convergence and 75% for competitiveness regions) • Consistency between Lisbon national reform plans and Structural Funds strategic reference programmes

  7. The i2010 priorities • I. A Single European Information Space • The completion of a Single European Information Space,A vision of convergence based on: High speed network, availability of content on line, secure networks and services, interoperable solutions III. Inclusion, better public services and quality of life Achieving an Inclusive European Information Society and prioritisebetter public services and quality of life II. Innovation and investment in research Strengthening Innovation and Investmentin ICT research And promote the use of ICT by businesses

  8. Community Framework Programmes • Over 20 years of Pan-European R&D collaboration • Implemented through specific programmes and work programmes, periodic calls for proposals, independent evaluation • ~ 6% of Europe’s civil R&D investment Main EU instrument to fund Community research

  9. FP7 ICT Work Programme FP6 Framework Programme Project Portfolio Calls for Proposals in 2007

  10. E2 in FP6 Knowledge management and Content creation • 62 projects, ~700 contractors, 270 M€ • RTD&D: • long term research (formal, theoretical) • component technology research & development • applied, system-level research • demonstration • emphasis on • generic, enabling technologies • flexible, cross-sectoral application platforms

  11. E2 in FP6 = 4 Calls • Cross-media Content (call 2):novel forms of digital contentcreativity & interactivity, user experience & control, story-telling & non-linear narratives… • Content & Knowledge (call 4):intelligent, dynamic contentaccess & management (meta data generation / extraction, semantic annotation & indexing, contextual retrieval…), automated workflows, aggregation & personalisation... • Knowledge (calls 1 & 4):intersection of Web, MM and KR&R (SemWeb+)networked information & communities, automation of knowledge lifecycle, web / multimedia “documents”, from static to dynamic information, interaction & evolving processes • Audiovisual Search Engines (call 6):organising, searching and accessing large scale, distributed audiovisual content automated knowledge discovery and extraction, annotation and summarisation, indexing and retrieval of all types of digital content (text, image, video, audio, 3D objects etc.), including protected content

  12. Multimedia NoE IP STP CA SA 3DTV IperG WorldScreen M-Pipe Holonics IPRacine Knowledge Representation GameTools MUSCLE Live REWERSE Towl Luisa NeOn WalkOnWeb K-Space Metokis Aim@Shape DirectInfo Aspic Salero Inscape Swing Acemedia Trends Sevenpro NM2 Ontogeo Mesh KnowledgeWeb X-Media Axmedis Caretaker Polymnia Boemie VIKEF MediaCampaign OpenKnowledge TripCom Simac Super AsIsKnown Text RevealThis TAO Musing DIP Patexpert Nepomuk S-TEN Alvis BootStrep SEKT KB20 Peng INCOMM Content4All AgentLinkIII LeMatch News Services

  13. FP7 Information and Communication Technologies ICT Work programme 2007-2008 FP7 ICT Work Programme Calls for Proposals in 2007

  14. FP7 Cooperation Programme(Total budget: 32.365 M€)

  15. Based on wide consultations • 100+ thematic consultation meetings +web consultations • Strategic Research Agendas of European Technology Platforms • European Platform on Smart Systems Integration (EPoSS) • Consolidated European Photonics Research Initiative (Photonics21) • Mobile and wireless communications technology (eMobility) • Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI) • Networked and electronic media platform (NEM) • Networked European Software and Services Initiative (NESSI) • …………………………..

  16. FP7 Aims to Reinforce Europe’s strongholds • Network and service infrastructures • communication equipment and services, business software, security solutions … • Components and embedded systems • semiconductors, equipment, photonics, plastic electronics, integrated micro/nano systems … embedded systems in vertical markets: cars, planes, medical, telecom … • A strong academic research community • in core ICT fields and in other disciplines relevant for ICT: biotech, materials, cognitive sciences …

  17. Work Programme approach and structure • A limited set of Challenges that • respond to well-identified industry and technology needs and/or • target specific socio-economic goals • A Challenge is addressed through a limited set of Objectives that form the basis of Calls for Proposals • An Objective is described in terms of • target outcome • expected impact on industrial competitiveness, societal goals,.. • Funding schemes • A total of 25 Objectives expressed within 7 Challenges

  18. Work Programme 2007 Challenges Socio-economic goals 4. Digital libraries and content 5. ICT for health 6. ICT for mobility & sustainable growth 7. ICT for independent living and inclusion 1. Network and service infrastructures 2.Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics Future and Emerging Technologies (FET) Industry/Tech needs 3.Components, systems, engineering

  19. ICT Challenge 4 2007-2008 Digital Libraries and Content “Make content and knowledge abundant, accessible, interactive and usable over time by humans and machines alike.” • content must be made available and its long termusability, accessibility and preservation must be ensured • effective technologies need to be developed for intelligentcontent creation and management and for supporting the capture of knowledge and its sharing and reuse

  20. Complementary tracks • Digital Libraries • cultural, scientific, scholarly content • typically public-interest services • networking, accessibility, sustainability … • acquisition (digitisation, rights) • curation, preservation • Intelligent Content • media & organisational content • mostly private players • commercial (creative industries) or competitive (enterprises) value • from creation through to consumption

  21. Intelligent Content .1 • 3 axes: • boost creativity, enhance experience (« better ») • master content (richer & « easier ») • dig out « hidden » information (find & correlate) • 3 forms of content: • (social) media content • enterpriseinformation • scientific data (e.g. biomedicine) everything is multimedia & networked • text, image, video, audio, 3D …

  22. Intelligent Content .2 Make digital resources that embody creativity andsemantics (”intelligence”) easier and more cost effective to produce, organize, search, personalise, distribute and use across the value chain. media professionals, enterprise designers, talented amateurs • more expressive, communicative & participative forms of content; enhanced productivity; greater ease of (re)use organisations, communities • more effective acquisition, processing & distribution of digital content and machine-tractable knowledge; sharingin collaborative environments

  23. E2 after CALL 1 & 3 Call 1&3 – Objective: Intelligent Content and semantics. • 28 projects, 234 contractors, 101 M€ 3 RTD&D main lines: • Online content, interactive and social media, • Knowledge discovery and management • Reasoning and information exploitation.

  24. FP7 Call 1 • inputs: • 148 proposals • 1210 participants from 50 countries • 473 Meuro requested, 51 Meuro available • outputs (1:10): • 15 proposals retained for negotiation • 128 participants from 21 countries • 55% academia & research centres • 45% business & public sector

  25. Response • popular themes: • content creation & processing,media (film, TV, advertising …) & other appls (eg surveillance) • knowledge management in a range of business& public-interest domains • personalisation & summarisation Recurring features:video & 3D; automated extraction, annotation & indexing; social approaches … • gaps: • creative authoring (eg online games, virtual worlds, industrial design …) • immersive rendering,multimodal consumption

  26. Successful proposals • post-production tools for the film & games industry • semantic coding of 3D objects, sharing of 3D models • semantic wikis as a knowledge management tool • enterprise knowledge aids integrating social software & semantics • distributed, approximate & incomplete reasoning • …

  27. FP7 Call 3 • inputs: • 252 proposals (+41%) • 2017 participants from 49 countries • 817 Meuro requested, 50 Meuro available • Outputs (1:19; -5%): • 13 proposals retained for negotiation • 106 participants from 21 countries • 51% academia & research centres • 49% business & public sector

  28. Response • popular themes: • content creation & processing, • Semantic foundations and knowledge management • Social interaction to support activities of organisation or communities • Temporal reasoning, dimensional reasoning and uncertainty • ……

  29. Successful proposals • The highest-ranked proposals clearly focussed on advancing the current state of the art by considering multiple media types, novel rich-contentenvironments, semantic foundations and knowledge management • Authoring environments for creative professionals and amateurs covering video, game development, story telling, graphic design. • Exploiting ambient information coming from virtual as opposed to real environments

  30. Call 1 Call 4 Call 2 NoE IP STP CA SA Online Content, Interactive & Social Media FP7 project portfolio http://cordis.europa.eu/info-management/ APIDIS CASAM IMP PuppyIR SMARTMUSEUM ACTIVE ANSWER KYOTO 3D POST eLICO IRIS FOCUS K3D KIWI WEKNOWIT INSEMTIVES SYNC3 SERVICE FINDER NoTube SmartProducts JUMAS LARKC PLUGIT VALUE IT PRONTO CALBC IKS OKKAM ONTORULE Knowledge Discovery & Management Reasoning & Information Exploitation CALL 1 CALL3

  31. PROBLEMS after 2 calls Participation of the new member states • 1st call • Only 14 contractors out of 118 are from new countries. • Using 8 % of the funding • 3rd call • Only 3 contractors out of 93 are from new countries. • Using 1.6 % of the funding

  32. PROBLEMS after 2 calls Participation of SME STREP 24% of the requested funding was for SMEs IP 26% of the requested funding was for SMEs CSA-SA 20% of the requested funding was for SMEs NoE 0% of the requested funding was for SMEs ALTOUGH SMEs make up 99% of European enterprises and employ over 65 million people.

  33. FP7 ICT Work Programme FP7 ICT Work programme 2009-2010 Calls for Proposals in 2007

  34. ICT Challenge 4 Digital Libraries and Content UNIT E2 FROM 2007-2008 Intelligent Content TO 2009-2010 Intelligent Information Management

  35. Intelligent Information Management The rationale for furthering a research programme in Intelligent Content and Semantics in the 2009-2010 timeframe is a simple analysis of the rate at which digital content is being produced and the changing conditions of its production and consumption. In 2010 more than 500 billion digital images will be captured on digital cameras and mobile phones (up from 250 billion in 2006). Similar increases in the volume of digital information can be observed as the result of the automation of experimental protocols (for example in biomedicine), the coming on line of sensors and RFID readers, the deployment of CCTV cameras, satellites with ever greater resolution, etc.

  36. UNIT E2Intelligent Information Management Key consultation themes: • Capturing tractable Information • Delivering pertinent information • Collaboration and decision support • Personal sphere • Impact and S&T leadership Key dimensions: any kind of large data sets + real time

  37. Overall approach .1 • research for a purpose, problem & objective driven • centred around users, data & flows • a compelling use case is as important as the underlying research • meaningful demonstrator(s), field validation & assessment • active promotion & dissemination of results beyond scientific circles

  38. Overall approach .2 • address clearly established problems, widely recognised outside academic circles: • better quality of output • save time • cut cost • application requirements • driving innovative ICT developments • use of ICT in the application context • prerequisites, incentives, repercussions

  39. MORE INFORMATION? UNIT E2 WEB SITE http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/content-knowledge/

  40. FP7 ICT Work Programme Part 2 Tips and Hints Calls for Proposals in 2007

  41. Time schedule Call 5 • Call 5 will be published on 31 July 2009 • Deadline: 3 November 2009 • Indicative Budget: 70M€

  42. Some statistics! • IPs  impact • up to 4 years, 5-9 Meuro (EU funding) • NoEs  integration • up to 3 years, up to 3.5 Meuro • STRs “research”  S&T innovation • up to 3 years, 2-4 Meuro • STRs “demonstration”  uptake • up to 2 years, 1-3 Meuro • CSAs (coordination & support actions) • up to 3 years, up to 1.5 Meuro

  43. Partnerships • keep consortium manageable • compact consortia (8.5 on average in Call 1): • IPs 7-12 partners • STRs4-8 partners • NoEs 3-4 “core” partners • select competent, committed & reliable partners; geography not an issue! • industry, SME, academia … participation as dictated by project needs • “launching user” organisations to provide a demanding problem & application/validationcontext

  44. Success factors .1 • Quality • Impact • Effectiveness but also • Relevance wrt. WP (remember: 150 to 200 proposals!) • Credibility Contrary to earlier calls, evaluators will have access to Web sources: previous projects, teams & skills, background & reference documents …

  45. Success factors .2 It’s a project, not a dissertation: • problem? • user? • data? • outputs (incl. public ones)? • metrics? • impact? • exploitation channels?

  46. Success factors .3 • preserve your credibility: select one proposal & make it win • ensure that the proposal brings out both innovation & exploitation potential • full depth of participation rather than long list of organisations • key individuals, expertise & achievements rather than long list of projects

  47. Reasons for failure • RTD content • narrow scope, little or no EU dimension • lack of focus, aims too general • lack of innovation, current state of art missing • planning • links missing between objectives & work plan • milestones missing or too general • risk factors not addressed, no contingency plans • no monitorable indicators, no metrics • management • consortium not balanced, gaps in the skills mix • lack of integration between partners • vague management structure • weak or narrow dissemination plans • ill-defined exploitation prospects

  48. Further info • ICT under FP7 cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/ • Unit E2 – Technologies for Information Management. URL: http://cordis.europa.eu/info-management/ mailto: infso-e2@ec.europa.eu

  49. FP7 ICT Work Programme Thank You Calls for Proposals in 2007

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