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Information Society Technologies. Key action III: Multmedia contents and Tools. Third Call for Proposals. Norbert Brinkhoff-Button DG Information Society European Commission. INFSO-D. Research and Development Multimedia Content and Tools (KA3): 564 M€ Industrial programmes
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Information Society Technologies Key action III: Multmedia contents and Tools Third Call for Proposals Norbert Brinkhoff-Button DG Information Society European Commission
INFSO-D • Research and Development • Multimedia Content and Tools (KA3): 564 M€ • Industrial programmes • Information Market INFO 2000: 65 M€ • Internet Action Plan: 25 M€ • Multilingual Information Society: 15 M€ • Policy initiatives • Green Paper, … Good mix of research and policy actions
Drivers & opportunities • Full digital information chain, new forms of content • Wireless broadband communications, mobile IP • Integrated Internet multimedia and telephony services • Digital audio/video broadcasting, IDTV • Multi-access, multimodal messaging and conferencing • Portable, wearable, in-car devices • Agent technologies Mobile communication Richcontent Digitalbroadcasting Networkinfrastructures
Emphasis on cross-media content human interactivity applications & generic research short to medium term markets Research Focus demonstrators: personalised Web, advanced digital libraries, school of the future, etc middleware: for cross-media, multilingual, multimodal applications standards: media re-presentation & exchange KA3 highlights New models for publishing Natural interactivity
Main research strands • Creative, visual & mobile content - III.1/3/4 • author & deliver interactivemedia • adapt existing content to new infostructure • filter, navigate & visualise digital objects • discover & extract knowledge • Natural & multilingual interaction - III.3 • enable multimodal man-machine interaction • develop multilingual service & device frontends • Education & training - III.2 • design new learning paradigms for schools • develop systems & services for life-long learning
3rd Call: action lines open • Personalising content • Access to digital collections of cultural and scientific content • School of tomorrow • The learning citizen • Natural interactivity • Cross-lingual information management and knowledge discovery • Working groups and dissemination and awareness actions
Personalising content • Stimulate new marketplaces & business models • Two project lines: • Enable (small) organisations to create personal content for target users (consumers) • Stimulate new Web services providing content-driven services for large communities • Application domains: advertising, profiling... • Full applications as well as smaller feasibility projects (proof of concept) • Interoperability, consumer protection and privacy, business models ...
Access to culture and science • Better access for citizens & professionals • Advanced digital library applications • navigation, search and retrieval for inter-operable access to distributed resources • International science collaboratoria • standards, tools and servers for collaborative analysis of scientific data • User-driven approach involving institutional actors • Integration, demonstration, test-beds… • Collaboration with national & international prog‘s Safegarding culture
School of tomorrow • Improve ICT-driven learning in primary and secondary schools • Scope • advanced learning environments and materials • cognitive activities (autonomy, creativity, team work) • solutions for mobile learning (remote access) • Organisational reengineering and pedagogical and socio-economic evaluation • Large scale demonstrations
The learning citizen • New approaches for Life Long Learning • Targets individuals outside formal education and training settings • Scope: • managing personal learning processes • brokerage of learning services (assessment) • Demonstrations, including user evaluations and best practice definition
Natural interactivity • Addresses people to data/systems and people to people • Aim is to increase “naturalness” • Emphasis on: • user/information interfaces • multimodal dialogues • highly conversational systems • Provide platform for multidisciplinary collaborations (speech, language, cognition, vision, etc.) • Enabling and applied research (showcases)
Cross-lingual information management • Extract knowledge from digital texts, messages, AV objects, etc • Scope • information retrieval, categorisation and profiling • topic identification, summarisation, fact & feature detection and extraction... using language processing techniques (semantic analysis) • Applications (showcases) & longer-term research • Platform for international collaborations
Support • Specific KA3 support measures (III.5.1: fixed deadline): • Working groups on standards & best practice: specific to KA3 research areas • Virtual exhibitions & showcases: access to leading edge technologies • National focal points (HLT): speed up the deployment of research results … in addition to continuous scheme
Outlook • This Call • 6 RTD lines • focus on content access and delivery, and dialogue • 4th Call • 5 RTD lines plus take-up • focus on creative, visual and mobile content • 5th Call • not relevant for KA3