EPSINET POLICY CONFERENCE

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EPSINET POLICY CONFERENCE

• Athens, January 14th 2005

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Project presentation

• Harmos aims to develop, demostrate and test the
  technology and business model for the
  establishment of a pilot pan-Europan multilingual
  digital collection for multimedia content in
  Music Heritage which will be available online.

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Project presentation

• Contract
• EDC 11189-HARMOS/28777
• Duration
• 24 months (April-2004?March-2006)
• Budget
• 2.785.546
• EC Contribution
• 1.392.774
• Web site
• www.harmosproject.com
• Project Officer
• Gudrun Stock

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Rationale

• Reuse and exploitation of public information
• Reuse information produced by public education
  institutions in the area of Music Heritage
• Create a new business model to exploit the final
  eContent
• New tools needed to reduce costs for the
  preparation of eContent
• Authoring tool to automatically segment the
  audiovisual content
• Annotation system

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Objectives

• To define content categories/ontologies for data
• To establish the metadata and workflow for the
  project
• To identify and prepare the multimedia content
• To customise and demonstrate an integrated system
  of
• Media Management System
• Automatic Segmentation Tool
• Collaborative Annotation Tool
• To develop a pilot training course
• To develop and evaluate a final Demonstrator

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Partnership

• Coordination
• Fundación Isaac Albéniz- FIA (E)
• IT Providers
• Fundació Universitat Pompeu Fabra (E)
• OrbiTeam (DE)
• Contents Providers/Users
• European Association of Conservatoires
• Lithuanian Academy of Music (LI)
• Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (B)
• Staatliche Musikhochschule Stuttgart (DE)
• Royal School of Music (UK)
• Escola Superior de Música a Catalunya (E)
• Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo
  del Instituto Politécnico do Porto (P)

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Project Workflow
Universidat Pompeu Fabra
Orbiteam
Fundación Isaac Albéniz
Prototype
Pilot Training Course
Contents
Lithuanian Academy of Music
Royal College of Music
Staatliche Musikhochschule Stuttgart
Koninklijk Conservatorium
European Association of Conservatoires
Escola de Musica do Porto
Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya
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Project Structure
WP1 Project Management
Content User Technical and functional
requirements
WP2
WP3
Content Tailoring
WP4
Content Tailoring/Tool Service
Prototype development
WP5
Pilot Training course
WP6
Evaluation
WP7
Exploitation and dissemination
WP8
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Target Users

• Conservatoires and Music Schools
• Students from European secundary educational
  public institutions
• In-residence users able to access broadband
• In-residence users (DVD)
• Multimedia producers