Transcript Document 7293701

Digital Libraries and Content
Make content and knowledge abundant, accessible, interactive
and usable over time by humans and machines alike.
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Content must be made available through digital libraries and its long
term usability, accessibility and preservation must be ensured
Effective technologies need to be developed for intelligent content creation
and management, and for supporting the capture of knowledge and its
sharing and reuse
Individuals, organisations and communities must find new ways to acquire
and exploit knowledge, and thereby learn
Political framework: « i2010 - Digital Libraries »
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Objective 3.4.1.1 - Digital Libraries and
Technology enhanced Learning
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Digital Libraries
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Medium term:
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Long term:
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a) Large-scale European-wide digital libraries
b) Radically new approaches to digital
preservation
Technology enhanced Learning
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Medium term
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c) Responsive environments for technologyenhanced learning
Long term
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d) Adaptive and intuitive learning systems
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Digital Libraries context
Research baseline
Digital libraries
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Architectures for DL – theoretical development of reference
model and its implementation
(multilingual) search, access and management systems for
cultural content
Research on domain specific issues (e.g. interfaces,
navigation, digitisation of audio-visual material, evaluation,
personalisation, visualisation, cross-media retrieval)
Digital preservation
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Test bed in libraries and archives - OAIS system integrating
preservation into organisational workflows and processes
Generic OAIS-based system for scientific data, multimedia art
and other cultural heritage material
Coordination of national activities mobilising centres or
networks of competence, structuring the research space for FP7
Policy context: i2010: digital libraries
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Digital Libraries (1/2)
a) Large-scale European-wide digital libraries of
cultural and scientific multi-format and multi-source digital
objects
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robust and scalable environments
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cost-effective digitisation,
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semantic-based search facilities and
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digital preservation features
assisting communities of practice in the creative use of
content in multilingual and multidisciplinary contexts
b) Radically new approaches to digital preservation
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high volume
dynamic and volatile digital content (notably web)
keep track of evolving meaning and usage context of
digital content
safeguarding integrity, authenticity and accessibility
over time
models enabling automatic and self-organising approaches
to preservation
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Digital Libraries (2/2)
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Approach:
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IPs (digitisation), STREPs and NoE (digital preservation)
Includes centres of competence for digitisation and
preservation, building upon, pooling and upgrading resources in
the Member States
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Rationale: economies of scale, transfer of knowledge to other
institutions, improving capacity, research into specific problems
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Leverage national initiatives (e.g. benchmarking digitisation,
national preservation plans)
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Cross-disciplinary including empirical evaluation
assessing broad socio-economic impact
Impact:
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Unlock organisations' and people's ability to access
digital content and to preserve it over time
EU-wide massive digitisation and long term preservation
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Technology-enhanced learning
- baseline from current research
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Mixing informal and formal learning
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New architectures & tools for learning platforms
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Compliance testing and take up of learning design
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Early experiments on personalisation of learning
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Integration of learning with knowledge management –
individual and organisational learning, including
approaches to competency management
Models and systems supporting learners in learning
together – collaboration, games, communities of practice
Understanding how ICT-enabled learning can tackle
specific problems – attention deficit, motivation and
engagement – eg using games, neuroscience
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Technology enhanced learning (1/2)
c) Responsive environments for technology-enhanced
learning, which
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accommodate personalisation to respond to specific
learning needs and contexts (mass-individualisation)
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are capable of transforming learning outcomes into
knowledge assets
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enhances competence, skills and performance
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are pedagogically sound
d) Adaptive and intuitive learning systems able to
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identify learner's requirements, intelligently monitoring
progress,
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exploit learning and cognitive abilities letting people learn
better,
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give purposeful and meaningful advice to both learners and
teachers,
learning on your own or collaboratively
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Technology enhanced learning (2/2)
Approach:
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Cross-disciplinary (cognitive, organisational,
pedagogical, technological aspects)
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Provide a body of evidence as to which approaches are
effective and under which circumstances
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Empirical evaluation assessing broad socio-economic
impact
Impact:
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Faster and more effective learning, acquisition of
knowledge, competences and skills
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Unlocking people’s and organisations’ ability to
master knowledge and apply it
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Increased knowledge worker productivity,
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More efficient organisational learning processes
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Contacts and further information
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INFSO – E3: Learning and Cultural Heritage
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/telearn-digicult/index.html
Patricia Manson
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Cultural Heritage
http://www.cordis.lu/ist/digicult/index.html
[email protected]
Carlos Oliveira
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Technology-enhanced Learning
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/telearn/index.html
[email protected]
Marco Marsella
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Objective 3.4.2.1: Intelligent content and
semantics
Some trends in digital content
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Explosion in the availability of multimedia content
Produced and remixed by non-professionals
Consumed on a broad range of devices
Growing cognitive load and diversity of content types
More and more data produced by instruments
as opposed to humans
Distributed (e.g. peer to peer) and
Socially enhanced
content management applications have established themselves
as successful solutions
Personal, Community, Organisational & Professional (media)
content & information
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Intelligent Content & Semantics
Obj 3.4.2.1 in the draft WP
Make digital resources that embody creativity and semantics
easier and more cost effective to produce, organize, search,
personalise, distribute and use across the value chain.
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CREATORS: Design more participative and communicative forms of content
(media professionals, enterprise designers, talented amateurs)
PUBLISHERS: Increase productivity in creative industries, enterprises and
professional sectors (eg health, law)
SCIENTISTS: Automate link between data analysis, theory and experimental
validation
ORGANISATIONS & COMMUNITIES: Automate collection and distribution of
digital content and machine-tractable knowledge, and their sharing in
collaborative environments
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Themes
RTD:
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Authoring
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Workflow
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Personalisation
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Semantics
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Knowledge
Networking, validation & socio economics
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Community building
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Take-up
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Some details …
Advanced Authoring
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explore new media paradigms & novel forms of content; support creativity & interactivity; user
experience & control; highly visual & non-linear content
low-cost high-functionality editing tools; semantic metadata for new as well as legacy content: categorize
& search, remix & share …; all content types (images, video, shapes…)
Collaborative Workflow
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(metadata and “object” based) automated content flows, from acquisition to packaging & repurposing
incl. adaptation to different markets & groups
multimedia segmentation, summarisation & (scalable) coding
Personalised Presentation & Consumption
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self-aware, adaptive content; user, context & device adaptation; privacy
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immersive rendering & multimodal interaction
Community building
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Stimulate cross disciplinary approaches and user/supplier dialogue; encourage uptake of research
results: demonstration & dissemination
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Semantic Foundations
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objective driven: beyond current knowledge models & formalisms; approximate reasoning & induction;
probabilistic, temporal & modal modelling
reference implementations in particular web integration of heterogeneus sources: multimedia resources
resp. real-time data streams
Knowledge Systems
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problem oriented: end-to-end systems for information bound organisations & communities; extract
meaning from information & social interaction and make it computer tractable
knowledge-based technologies & architectures in support of dynamic data & application integration, ITbased business processes, collaboration & problem solving
Community building
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Stimulate cross disciplinary approaches and user/supplier dialogue; encourage uptake of research results:
demonstration & dissemination
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Key features
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problem & objective driven
scope: formal (AI) + social (Web 2.0) + ambient (Internet of
things) content / knowledge resources
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foundational, component & system level research
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centred around (real) users, data & flows
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principled approach, no quick-and-dirty fixes
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field validation & assessment
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replicability & scalability
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active promotion & dissemination of results
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… beyond scientific circles
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What we don’t do
In 2007-08 we do not plan to support research into:
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basic, theoretical research with no foreseeable by-products within 10
years
domain specific applications - not portable/replicable in other socioeconomic sectors
developments addressing immediate commercial concerns e.g. content
protection
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issues covered by other Challenges e.g. media networking, peer to peer
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topics well covered by on-going FP6 projects & networks
individual projects can however address one or
the other of the above issues
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Further Info & Events
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FP7
http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/
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Unit E2 - Knowledge & Content Technologies
URL:
http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/kct/fp7.htm
mailto: [email protected]
c/o Dr Stefano Bertolo
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IST conference, Helsinki
21-23 Nov 2006
http://europa.eu.int/information_society/istevent/2006/index_en.htm
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SAMT 2006, Athens
6-8 Dec 2006
http://www.samt2006.org
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Dir E info session, Luxembourg
24-26 Jan 2007
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