Challenge 4 4.3 Digital Libraries and Technology enhanced Learning

1. Challenge 44.3 Digital Libraries and Technology enhanced Learning Carlos Oliveira (Deputy Head of Unit) DG INFSO E3 – Cultural Heritage and Technology enhanced Learning FP7 - ICT Call 3

2. Challenge 4:Digital Libraries and Content • Harnessing the synergies made possible by linking content, knowledge and learning • Increasethe availability of content and its long term accessibility • More effective technologies for the creation, management and reuse of content and knowledge • Scenarios for creative use of content, acquisition and development of knowledge - learning processes • Key topics: • Digital Libraries • Technology-enhanced Learning • Intelligent Content and Semantics FP7 - ICT Call 3

3. Objective ICT2007.4.1:Digital Libraries & Technology enhanced Learning The Workprogramme has 2 distinct elements: Digital Libraries • Medium term: • a) Large-scale European-wide digital libraries • Long term: • b) Radically new approaches to digital preservation Technology-enhanced Learning • Medium term • c) Responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning • Long term • d) Adaptive and intuitive learning systems FP7 - ICT Call 3

4. Digital libraries:research objectives a)Large-scale European-wide digital libraries of cultural and scientific multi-format and multi-source digital objects (medium term) • robust and scalable environments • cost-effective digitisation • innovative services and creative use • semantic-based search facilities and • digital preservation features assisting communities of practice in the creative use of content in multilingual and multidisciplinary contexts b)Radically new approaches to preservation of digital content (long term) • high volume; dynamic and volatile digital content (notably web) • keep track of evolving meaning and usage context • safeguarding integrity, authenticity and accessibility over time • models enabling automatic and self-organising approaches to preservation FP7 - ICT Call 3

5. Digital libraries:approach and impact • Approach: • All funding schemes – but with very different indicative budgets • Includes concept of centres of competence for digitisation and preservation, building upon, pooling and upgrading resources in the Member States • Cross-disciplinary research; empirical evaluation; socio-economic impact • Impact: • Unlock organisations'and people's ability to access digital content and to preserve it over time • EU-wide massive digitisation and long termpreservation FP7 - ICT Call 3

6. Technology-enhanced Learning: research objectives c) Responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning(Medium term) • accommodate personalisation to respond to specific learning needs and contexts (mass-individualisation) • are capable of transforming learning outcomes into permanent knowledge assets • enhance competence, skills and performance • are pedagogically sound d) Adaptive and intuitive learning systems (Long term) • identify learner's requirements, intelligently monitoring progress, • exploit learning and cognitive abilities letting people learn better, • give purposeful and meaningful advice to both learners and teachers learning on your own or collaboratively FP7 - ICT Call 3

7. Technology-enhanced Learning: approach and impact Approach: • Cross-disciplinary (cognitive, organisational, pedagogical, technological aspects) • Provide a body of evidence as to which approaches are effective and under which circumstances Impact: • Faster and more effective learning, acquisition of knowledge, competences and skills • Unlocking people’s and organisations’ ability to master knowledge and apply it • Increased knowledge worker productivity, • More efficient organisational learning processes FP7 - ICT Call 3

8. Budget and Funding Schemes -instruments • Total budget for the SO: 102 MEUR • Call 1: 52 MEUR • Call 3: 50 MEUR • Funding Schemes: • Cooperative Projects (IPs and STREPs) • Networks of Excellence • Coordination Actions/Support Actions • Indicative funding: • Cooperative projects M€42.5 • minimum of M€20 to IPs; • M€10 to STREPs); • M€5 for NoEs; • M€2.5 for CSAs NO pre-allocation of budget between “digital libraries” and “learning”! FP7 - ICT Call 3

9. FP7-ICT call 1 results • 189 Proposals – 12 funded! • Digital Libraries and digital preservation • 2 IPs, 3 STREPs, 1 CA • Large scale digitisation of printed documents (older materials and fonts), digital preservation and added value services based on digital content • Learning • 2 IPs and 4 STREPs • Greater focus on responsive environments and mid-term goals, than on intuitive systems • Strong continuity with FP6 research (and projects!) – NoEs have been influential FP7 - ICT Call 3

10. FP7-ICT call 1 new projectsTechnology-enhanced Learning (1) • IP1: Constructivist approach to science learning • Adaptivity, learner as creator, engagement, guidance (by tutors/teachers) • Consortium: universities • IP2: Workplace learning • Embedding learning more seamlessly in work processes and KM systems; knowledge maturation • Consortium: universities, industry FP7 - ICT Call 3

11. FP7-ICT call 1 new projectsTechnology-enhanced Learning (2) • STRP 1: Personalisation and adaptivity • developing new tools interfacing with existing infrastructures and LMS • STRP 2: Theories, methodologies and technologies for game based learning • Focus on learning science, adaptivity, story telling and engagement • STRP 3: Adaptivity and guidance • Using natural language technologies to support learner and teacher • STRP 4: Innovation and creativity in product development FP7 - ICT Call 3

12. FP7-ICT call 1 new projectsDigital libraries (1) Integrated Project 1: • Data Grid, Federated Digital Libraries, Persistent Data Archives and Multivalent Architecture • Test-beds: Documents in Memory Institutions and Governmental Collections, Objects in Industrial Design and Engineering, eScience • Consortium: universities and research org in EU and US, industry and gov. Integrated Project 2: • Large scale digitisation of printed older material (scan + OCR) with multilingual support • Centre of competence for digitisation • Consortium: national libraries, ICT (scan + OCR specialists) FP7 - ICT Call 3

13. FP7-ICT call 1 new projectsDigital libraries (2) STREP 1: • Web archiving: fidelity, coherence and interpretability, transforming pure snapshot into living web archive • Consortium: Universities and research, new media archiving STREP 2: • Explore software agent technologies to automate preservation processes (self-preserving objects) • Consortium: archives and universities, research, ICT STREP 3: • Innovative access to digital library content (ability to extend queries in the context of a specific discipline to alien domains) • Consortium: film news agencies, universities, research CSA • Coordination action on multilingualism in digital libraries FP7 - ICT Call 3

14. Where proposals failed • Described solutionswithout defining either the problem or the research and progress that would be made • Objectives more oriented towards providing a solution for a particular set of users (e.g. training for engineers, the virtual museum or digital library with the collections of a specific organisation) than the objectives and impacts specified in the work-programme • Failure to justify the choice of the application or test-bed. Our approach is subject neutral – and so it is up to proposers to argue the usefulness of the proposed test-beds (in terms of learning context, potential for replication). • Tried to create false links between digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning – thinking that greater coverage of the WP is better than clear relevance to one of the research topics FP7 - ICT Call 3

15. Where proposals failed • Over-dimensioned – tried to tackle too much and becoming too diffuse rather than stick to a core problem and focused, measurable objectives • In digital libraries: • Several proposals having as main objective and outcome to set-up adigital library or repository hosting the collections of an institution, occasionally with some a digitisation component, but a very limited research component • Development of solutions for very specific audiences (tracking of stolen works, publishing / simulation of scientific data) without a visible research outcome • In learning: • Inability to leverage a balance of research in technological and pedagogical (or cognitive science) disciplines – too often there were technologies looking for a home • Aim to create LMS or content delivery platforms – not advanced as regards the state of the art, or more oriented towards the objectives of eContentplus FP7 - ICT Call 3

16. Contacts and further information • Next events: Information Days in Luxembourg on 17 and 18 December 2007 • Call 3 publication – closing date 8 April 2008 • INFSO/E3: Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced Learning FP6: http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/telearn-digicult/index.html FP7: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/telearn-digicult/contacts_en.htm Digital libraries and preservation:infso-digicult@ec.europa.eu Tech. enhaced learning:infso-telearn@ec.europa.eu FP7 - ICT Call 3