Information Society Technologies

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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
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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

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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
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KA3 highlights
New models for publishing

• 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

Natural interactivity
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Main research strands

• Creative, visual mobile content - III.1/3/4
• author deliver interactive media
• 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

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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

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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 ...

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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 progs

Safegarding culture
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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

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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

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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)

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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

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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

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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