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Bulgarian participation in FP7/ICT “Technologies for digital content”

Bulgarian participation in FP7/ICT “Technologies for digital content” Prof. Galia Angelova, IICT-BAS, Nat. Contact Person FP7 ICT Totka Chernaeva, IT Department, MTITC, Nat. representative FP7 ICT Programme Committee. Outline.

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Bulgarian participation in FP7/ICT “Technologies for digital content”

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  1. Bulgarian participation in FP7/ICT “Technologies for digital content” Prof. Galia Angelova,IICT-BAS, Nat. Contact Person FP7 ICT Totka Chernaeva,IT Department, MTITC, Nat. representative FP7 ICT Programme Committee “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  2. Outline • Overview of the Bulgarian participation in FP7 theme ICT (Information and Communication Technologies), Objective “Digital Libraries and Content” • Main Bulgarian players • Success stories in Digital Libraries • What can be done to support the participation of Bulgarian cultural institutions in FP7/ICT “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  3. ICT FP7 – main EU instrument for funding RTD with EU impact in “Information & Communication Techn.” • 7th Framework Programme for R&D: 2007-2013 • ICT - the largest research theme;provides a total of € 9.1 billion for RTD projects in 9 areas (“challenges”) • Challenge 4: Digital Libraries and Content • 2007-2008 Digital Libraries and Content • 2009-2010 Digital Libraries and Content • 2011-2012 Technologies for Digital Content and Languages • More applied trends: funded in further programmes like eContent, eContentPlus, PSP etc. “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  4. 2007-2008 Digital Libraries and Content 3 calls:Call 1, Call 3 // total budget of € 102mln • Digital Libraries(DL) • Innovative access services that support communiti-es of practice in the creation, interpretation and use of cultural and scientific content, incl. multi-format and multi-source digital objects • Radically new approaches to digital preservation • Technology-enhanced learning (TEL) • Intelligent Content and Semantics (ICS) “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  5. 2007-2008 Retained with BG-participation • Call 1: • TEL:LTfLL(Language Technologies for Life-long Learning) - IICT-BAS • ICS:LarKC(the Large Knowledge Collider), Sirma – Ontotext and SMARTMUSEUM (Cultural heritage knowledge exchange platform) – Webgate • Call 3 • TEL: DynaLearn(Engaging and informed tools for learning conceptual system knowledge) – IBEI-BAS and KEEP (Keep-ing Emulation Environments Portable)- Nucleus Systems Ltd • ICS:INSEMTIVES(Incentives for Semantics) and NoTube(Networks and Ontologies for the Transformation and Unification of Broadcasting and the Internet, Making Television More Personal), Sirma – Ontotext “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  6. 2009-2010 Digital Libraries and Content • Call 6 Dig. Libraries, Preservation(DLP) € 69 mln • Scalable preservation methods of digital content • Advanced preservation scenarios • Innovation in assembling multimedia DL • Adaptive cultural experiences • Interdisciplinary networks – models, KR, graphics … • Call 5 TEL € 69 mln • Call 5 Int. Inform. Management (IIM) € 70 mln • Call 5 Extension of Running projects € 10 mln “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  7. 2009-2010 Retained with BG-participation • Call 5: • IIM:CUBIST (Combining and Uniting Business Intelligence and Semantic Technologies), RENDER(Reflecting Knowledge Diversity) and KHRESMOI(Knowledge Helper for Medical and Other Information users) – Ontotext • an Extension of a DL-project:IMPACT(Improving Access to Texts), IICT-BAS and the Nat. Library ‘St.St. Cyril and Methodius’ • Call 6 • DL, DP: Cultura(CULTivating Understanding and Research through Adaptivity) – Sofia University “St. Kl. Ohridski”, Faculty of Maths and Informatics and Commetric EOOD  “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  8. 2010-2011 Technologies for Digital Content and Languages • SME Initiative on Digital Content and Languages • Call 7 Language Technologies(LT)€ 50 mln • Call 8 Intelligent Inf. Management€ 50 mln • Call 9 Digital Preservation (DP)€ 30 mln • More reliable and secure preservation technologies and methods • Intelligent management of preservation • Research networks, uptake of DP research “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  9. 2011 Retained with BG-participation • SME initiative – Ontotext one successful project • Call 7 – Ontotext has one successful project (TrendMiner, Portable open-source real-time methods for cross-lingual mining and summarisation of large-scale stream media) • Call 8 under evaluation • Call 9closes 17 April 2012 “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  10. Main Bulgarian players With more than one funded project: • Ontotext in Semantic Technologies and Intelligent Information Management • IICT-BAS in Technology-Enhanced Learning and Digital Libraries (Technologies for automatic correction of scanning errors) “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  11. Success Rates for BG in Challenge 4 • Call 1, DL+TEL: 1 retained, 36 submitted – 2,8%(6 AT - above threshold) • Call 1, ICS: 2 retained, 20 submitted – 10% (3 AT) • Call 3, DL+TEL: 2 retained, 38 submitted – 5%(6 AT) • Call 3, ICS: 2 retained, 18 submitted – 11% (7 AT) • Call 5, TEL: 0 retained, 18 submitted – 0% (4 AT) • Call 5, IIM: 3 retained, 11 submitted – 27% (0 AT) • Call 6, DL+DP: 1 retained, 5 submitted – 20% (0 AT) • Call 7, LT: 1 retained, 8 submitted – 12,5% (0 AT) Average: for BG about 11%vs 13.5%FP7 “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  12. Bulgarian Proposers in Challenge 4 • TEL – mostly academic units, many companies • ICS, IIM – mostly companies, few academic units • LT – academic units and companies • DL, DP – academic units, companies and ~30%: • 4 Regional administrative units • The National Library “St.St. Cyril and Methodius” • The Central Library BAS • 3 Community centers, libraries/cultural clubs • 5-6 NGOs: associations, foundations … • Fixed academic players but new companies/NGOs “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  13. Success stories in DL • IMPACT – extension of a running large project • The extension was funded for 18 months: IICT + Nat. Library • Automatic correction of scanning errors in historic Cyrillic texts, created dictionaries and prototypes • Fine Reader (Russian software) for Cyrillic texts • CULTURA - http://www.cultura-strep.eu/home • Language processing, which normalises ambiguities in noisy historical texts • Highlights the key individuals, events, dates and other entities and relationships within unstructured text • Supports the users to investigate, comprehend and contribute to digital cultural collections • Tested on medieval English texts (Coordinator Trinity College) • FAILURE: perhaps the fact that no Bulgarian cultural unit is successful independently on related techno-partners “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  14. What can be done at national level? • Taking part in ICT/FP7 is important because one learns to do innovative services (e.g. CULTURA) • There are a lot of active companies with expertise in digital content (Ontotext is an EU-leader in the field) • Many cultural institutions have already started their own digitalisation initiatives • Planning funding via the Structural Funds 2014-2020 • Coordination of efforts (Roadmap) “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

  15. Thanksa lot for your attention! “Europeana and the Bulgarian institutions”, 3-4 April 2012, Plovdiv

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