Transcript IST Programme: 6th Call

IST Programme
Cultural Content and Digital Heritage
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Funded by the
European Commission
Cultural Content & Digital Heritage
• Context - strategic objectives
• Results to date
• Workprogramme 2001
–ALIII.1.2 - background, objectives & scope
–ALIII.1.3 - background, objectives & scope
–Support actions
• Practical information on good practice
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European Commission
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Key issues
Strategic RTD objectives through to 2005:
• improve the accessibility of Europe’s scientific and cultural
collections (cultural landscape)
• develop sustainable cultural environments
• focus on high-quality representations of artefacts and collections
• provide a test platform for technology trials
• expanding the vision towards other areas of cultural multimedia
activities
driven by the research problem not the content
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European Commission
Core research agenda
• unified access - easy, integrated access for the user to multiple
collections, and formats
– access, navigation, interoperability & networking
• improved functions and services from digital collections
– systems and tools for managing resources, digital
objects, high volume resources
• digital preservation - sustainability over time
– digitisation & surrogates; born-digital
Implemented through annual workprogrammes defined in Action Lines4
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European Commission
Calls
– 1 March 1999 - III.2.3: Access to scientific & cultural heritage
– 2 Oct. 1999 - III.2.4: Preservation of cultural heritage
– 3 Feb. 2000 - III.1.4: Access to digital collections of cultural
& scientific content
– 4 July 2000 - III.1.6: Virtual representations of cultural &
scientific objects
III.1.5: Trials on new access modes to cultural &
scientific content
– 6 Jan. 2001 - Heritage for all
- Next generation digital collections
- 7 July 2001 - Building e-Business, Cross-programme opportunities,
General information, Multimedia Content and Tools, New Methods of
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Work and e-Commerce, Services for Citizens, Technologies Research
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[closes
17 Oct.]
European
Commission
Basic Facts
No. of
Proposals
73
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No. of Selected
Projects
13
8
10
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Total
Funding
Meuro
19.8
12.7
14.0
14.6
(incl.trials)
Totals
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European Commission
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63
61.1
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Projects and emerging clusters
• Cluster 1: DL applications
– distributed resources, DL models and
tools
– multiple formats - text to broadcast
archives
– cultural (eg fine arts) and scientific
(data & software) resources
– metadata and interoperability
– new services and business models
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Digital libraries clusters
• Film and video heritage
– access - ECHO distributed library of film archives;
COLLATE - collaboratory on archive film data
– restoration - BRAVA - impaired film
– preservation & access - PRESTO, AMICITIA
• Access to cross-domain resources
– COVAX - integrating access to ALMs via XML DTDs
– LEAF - distributed name authority system for accessing
archival and library materials
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Digital libraries clusters
• EU-wide infrastructures for quality content
– RENARDUS, TEL, ETB: resources for research and for
schools
• New digital libraries models
– ARTISTE - high quality image banks of paintings
ARION - scientific data and software
– CYCLADES - developing services on OAi data
– MIND - resource selection and data fusion for multimedia
international digital libraries
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Projects and emerging clusters
• Cluster 2: Virtual Heritage
– visual representations using streaming video,
animation, 3-D, VR
– enhancing learning and game playing
– improving user interactions and
understanding of content.
– innovative Web-based services
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Virtual Heritage clusters
– Improving learning: ASH (virtual classroom for space heritage
& astronomy), RENAISSANCE (new genre of game on a virtual
court), and VAKHUM (kinematic model for joint articulation)
– Virtual guides & tours of archaeological sites (ARCHEOGUIDE,
PAST)
– Virtual museums - robotic guides & personalised
navigation/tours (TOURBOT, MESMUSES)
– Tools for preservation/conservation - art images (CRISATEL)
and reconstructing archaelogical artefacts (3D MURALE)
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Projects and emerging clusters
• Cluster 3: Culture economy: new business models
– creating an open framework for a European
cultural economy (OPEN HERITAGE)
– building regional networks supporting a cultural
economy (REGNET)
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Support Measures
• NETWORKS - aimed at partnerships, dissemination and awareness,
consensus building
– Digital libraries: DELOS
– Cultural institutions (archives, libraries, museums): CULTIVATE European, Central European, Israeli and Russian nodes
– Visual arts and electronic imaging - EVAN
– European wide framework for cooperation between national
libraries - TEL
– European network for public libraries: PULMAN
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Support measures
• FOCUSED ACTIONS - aimed at specific topics & issues
– licensing awareness and training in CEE - CELIP
– museum ontology standards - support for input to ISO
work
– monitoring European library economics for
international benchmarking [LIBECON]
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Workprogramme 2001
• Established in conjunction with workshops held in 2000
• Participants - key actors from technology providers, research
community, cultural/memory organisations and public sector
bodies
• 2 Action Lines:
– III.1.2 Heritage for All
– III.1.3 Next generation digital collections
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AL III.1 2 - Heritage for All
Aims to:
• Improve synergies and cooperation between cultural institutions
• Increase visibility and improve content building by local/regional
institutions
• Encourage a bottom-up, grass roots approach - mobilise,
examples of good practice
• Overcome social and cultural exclusion
Establishing an infrastructure for a dynamic citizen-driven record of the
cultural scene across Europe
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• Objective
AL III.1 2 - Heritage for All
– Support online communities in creating &
documenting the digital record of their societies
Timeline:
3-7 years
– Safeguard this record for the future
• Focus
– Local resources in the global context - replicable experiments in
creating, discovering & aggregating local resources
– Active participation of end users through online communities
– Digital archiving and community memory
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Next generation digital collections
• Aims to:
– Build on previous access and DL work - develop
leadership & excellence in research
– Address new distinct communities of users
– Improve resource interoperability & comparability
– Address issues surrounding diversity of content and
its accessibility over time
Developing content infrastructures for inclusive cultural
ecologies
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• Objective:
AL III.1.3: Next generation digital collections
Timeline:
3-7 years
– Improve access: quality, quantity for citizens & professionals
• Focus:
– Advanced DL applications - visualisation & VR in DLs large
scale networking archive/lib/museum resources
– Thematic ‘contextualised’ collections - interoperability,
ontologies, schemas
– User-driven - collaboratories, personalisation
– Dynamic content - preservation & archiving reference
environments
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III.5.1 x-Content futures
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Experimental AL, open throughout WP2001
New concepts and paradigms
Breakthrough research / high risk
Topics between / beyond current AL‘s in KA3
Time to market: 0-10 years (breakthrough RTD is not
necessarily long-term !)
• Initial phases of RTD projects as well as full blown RTD
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III.5.2
Competence
building
Multimedia skills acquisition
– Addressing the IT/multimedia skills gap in Europe
– Experimenting with innovative multimedia systems and
tools. “Train the trainers” rather than endusers
• Access to competence in multimedia
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Reinforcing European leadership for the future, via:
World-class competence centres existing or emerging
Benchmarking: developments, technology adoption...
Sustainable business models / clear exit strategies
Contract type: Access
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III.5.3 KA3 specific support measures
• Turnaround in 2001: increased emphasis on demonstrating,
assessing & disseminating results, as programme reaches
completion
• Impact analysis: benchmarking of RTD results, comparative
analysis against international developments and future markets
• Spread of know-how: active dissemination of lessons learnt
outside the programme
• … to be communicated widely in print and electronic form, at
relevant events, etc
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Practical information: partnerships
• Players (consortia of European dimension)
– Cultural institutions - archives, libraries, museums
– Local and regional authorities (Heritage for All)
– Public/private sector partnerships for technologies
– Research institutes and universities (esp. DLs)
• Cooperation
– National and regional programmes for heritage & digitisation
(Heritage for All)
– Other national and international DL programmes specifically EU/NSF agreement
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Practical information: project models
• Vertical (technological) RTD project:
technology challenges, mid to long-term, technology & research
teams lead, content owners - needs, validation, content, demo of
service applications
• Horizontal (integrative) RTD project:
consensus driven, EU-wide infrastructures, scalability of
integration, alliances multiple institutional players,
organisational/service innovation, unique ownership of content or
uniquely competent to deliver the service
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European Commission
Practical information: Support Actions
Network of excellence:
– consensus building network - open to new members and to
international cooperation
– creates a large and sustainable EU-wide intellectual and technical
infrastructure
– complex collection of interrelated tasks, and including an on-going
EU research agenda
Working groups:
– simple platform for co-operation with short-term, well focused
objectives
– the first steps in confidence building, creating consensus and cooperative working
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Practical information
dos and don’ts - from experience
Warning signs - why proposals are rejected by evaluators
– technology proposal  relevance to culture not proven or too general
– access proposal: “business as usual”  portals or Web sites
– cultural proposal: focus on unique or valuable physical objects but having
no understanding of the technology aspects - not transferable
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Practical information
dos and don’ts - from experience
More reasons why proposals are rejected by evaluators
– claim  access BUT……
reality  simple digitisation proposal
– “ignore everyone else” proposal: no state-of-the-art and no
references to other work
– “echo” proposals: echo the call text, the guidelines, ...
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Cultural content & digital heritage
Remember:
real needs -
solutions that people want
research with a purpose -meeting a challenge
realistic objectives -
practical results
replicability of results - solutions others can use
right team - develop new alliances
reinforce - value and visibility of our cultural
institutions
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Web:
www.cordis.lu/ist/
www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/digicult
www.cordis.lu/libraries/en/
libraries.html
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