TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT

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• TECHNOLOGIES FOR INFORMATION MANAGEMENT
• 23 January 2009 - SZTAKI, Budapest
• Dr. Márta Nagy-Rothengass
• Dr. Stefano Bertolo
• DG Information Society and Media
• Unit E2 Technologies for Information Management
  

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PRESENTATION OUTLINE

• Part 1 Work Programme
• European Policies Content
• Role of IST/ICT
• Community Interest
• Domain of activities
• Part 2 Practical Tips and Hints
• Contacts data

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FP7 ICT Work Programme
Part 1 Policy Work programmes

• Calls for Proposals in 2007

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INTRODUCTION
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
The Information Society and Media Directorate
General
Directorate E Digital Content Cognitive Systems
(Luxembourg)
E1 Interaction Interfaces E2
Technologies for Information Management E3
Cultural Heritage Technology Enhanced Learning
E4 Access to Information   E5 Cognitive
Systems Robotics E6 eContent and Safer
Internet E7 Administration and Finance
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Mission statement of DG INFSOINFORMATION SOCIETY

• Support innovation and competitiveness in Europe
  through excellence in ICT research and
  development.
• Define and implement a regulatory environment
  that enables rapid development of services based
  on information, communication and audio-visual
  technologies, so fostering competition that
  supports investment, growth and jobs
• Encourage the widespread availability and
  accessibility of ICT-based services, especially
  those that have the greatest impact on the
  quality of life of the citizens.
• Foster the growth of content industries drawing
  on Europes cultural diversity.
• Represent the European Commission in
  international dialogue and negotiations in these
  fields, and promote international cooperation in
  ICT research and development.

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I2010

• Full alignment of cohesion and information
  society policies on the Lisbon agenda
• i2010 a comprehensive strategic framework for
  information society policies in Lisbon
• The i2010 priorities reflected in the SF
  programming guidelines
• Community cohesion and rural development spending
  targeted towards supporting the Lisbon Strategy
• Earmarking of cohesion expenditures to Lisbon
  (60 for convergence and 75 for competitiveness
  regions)
• Consistency between Lisbon national reform plans
  and Structural Funds strategic reference
  programmes

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The i2010 priorities

• I. A Single European Information Space
• The completion of a Single European Information
  Space,A vision of convergence based on High
  speed network, availability of content on line,
  secure networks and services, interoperable
  solutions

II. Innovation and investment in
research Strengthening Innovation and Investment
in ICT research And promote the use of ICT by
businesses

• III. Inclusion, better public services and
  quality of life
• Achieving an Inclusive European Information
  Society and prioritise better public services
  and quality of life

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Community Framework Programmes

• Main EU instrument to fund Community research

• Over 20 years of Pan-European RD
  collaboration
• Implemented through specific programmes and
  work programmes, periodic calls for
  proposals, independent evaluation
• 6 of Europes civil RD investment

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FP7 ICT Work Programme
FP6 Framework Programme Project Portfolio

• Calls for Proposals in 2007

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General Overview of IST in FP6(Information
Society Technologies)
Proposals received 7 952 Requested funding
26 003 M Contracts 1000 EU
contribution 3 880 M Contractors
4 753
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E2 in FP6 Knowledge management and Content
creation

• 62 projects, 700 contractors, 270 M
• RTDD
• long term research (formal, theoretical)
• component technology research development
• applied, system-level research
• demonstration
• emphasis on
• generic, enabling technologies
• flexible, cross-sectoral application platforms

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E2 in FP6 4 Calls

• Cross-media Content (call 2)novel forms of
  digital contentcreativity interactivity, user
  experience control, story-telling non-linear
  narratives
• Content Knowledge (call 4)intelligent,
  dynamic contentaccess management (meta data
  generation / extraction, semantic annotation
  indexing, contextual retrieval), automated
  workflows, aggregation personalisation...
• Knowledge (calls 1 4)intersection of Web, MM
  and KRR (SemWeb)networked information
  communities, automation of knowledge lifecycle,
  web / multimedia documents, from static to
  dynamic information, interaction evolving
  processes
• Audiovisual Search Engines (call 6)organising,
  searching and accessing large scale, distributed
  audiovisual content
• automated knowledge discovery and extraction,
  annotation and summarisation, indexing and
  retrieval of all types of digital content (text,
  image, video, audio, 3D objects etc.), including
  protected content

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Multimedia
3DTV
IperG
WorldScreen
M-Pipe
Holonics
IPRacine
GameTools
Knowledge Representation
MUSCLE
Live
REWERSE
Towl
Luisa
NeOn
WalkOnWeb
K-Space
Metokis
Aim_at_Shape
DirectInfo
Aspic
Salero
Inscape
Swing
Acemedia
Sevenpro
Trends
NM2
Ontogeo
Mesh
KnowledgeWeb
Axmedis
X-Media
Caretaker
Polymnia
Boemie
VIKEF
OpenKnowledge
MediaCampaign
TripCom
Simac
Super
AsIsKnown
Text
RevealThis
Musing
TAO
DIP
Nepomuk
Patexpert
S-TEN
Alvis
BootStrep
SEKT
KB20
Peng
INCOMM
Content4All
AgentLinkIII
News
LeMatch
Services
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FP7 ICT Work Programme
FP7 Information and Communication Technologies
ICT Work programme 2007-2008

• Calls for Proposals in 2007

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FP7 Cooperation Programme(Total budget 32.365
M)
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Based on wide consultations

• 100 thematic consultation meetings web
  consultations
• Strategic Research Agendas of European Technology
  Platforms
• European Platform on Smart Systems Integration
  (EPoSS)
• Consolidated European Photonics Research
  Initiative (Photonics21)
• Mobile and wireless communications technology
  (eMobility)
• Integral Satcom Initiative (ISI)
• Networked and electronic media platform (NEM)
• Networked European Software and Services
  Initiative (NESSI)
• ..

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FP7 Aims to Reinforce Europes strongholds

• Network and service infrastructures
• communication equipment and services, business
  software, security solutions
• Components and embedded systems
• semiconductors, equipment, photonics, plastic
  electronics, integrated micro/nano systems
  embedded systems in vertical markets cars,
  planes, medical, telecom
• A strong academic research community
• in core ICT fields and in other disciplines
  relevant for ICT biotech, materials, cognitive
  sciences

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Work Programme approach and structure

• A limited set of Challenges that
• respond to well-identified industry and
  technology needs
• and/or
• target specific socio-economic goals
• A Challenge is addressed through a limited set of
  Objectives that form the basis of Calls for
  Proposals
• An Objective is described in terms of
• target outcome
• expected impact on industrial competitiveness,
  societal goals,..
• Funding schemes
• A total of 25 Objectives expressed within 7
  Challenges

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Work Programme 2007 Challenges
Socio-economic goals
4. Digital libraries and content
5. ICT for health
6. ICT for mobility sustainable growth
7. ICT for independent living and
inclusion
1. Network and service infrastructures
2. Cognitive systems, interaction, robotics
Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)
Industry/Tech needs
3. Components, systems, engineering
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ICT Challenge 4 2007-2008

• Digital Libraries and Content
• Make content and knowledge abundant,
  accessible, interactive and usable over time by
  humans and machines alike.
• content must be made available 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

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Complementary tracks

• Digital Libraries
• cultural, scientific, scholarly content
• typically public-interest services
• networking, accessibility, sustainability
• acquisition (digitisation, rights)
• curation, preservation
• Intelligent Content
• media organisational content
• mostly private players
• commercial (creative industries) or competitive
  (enterprises) value
• from creation through to consumption

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Intelligent Content .1

• 3 axes
• boost creativity, enhance experience ( better )
• master content (richer  easier )
• dig out  hidden  information (find correlate)
• 3 forms of content
• (social) media content
• enterprise information
• scientific data (e.g. biomedicine)
• everything is multimedia networked
• text, image, video, audio, 3D

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Intelligent Content .2

• Make digital resources that embody creativity
  and semantics (intelligence) easier and more
  cost effective to produce, organize, search,
  personalise, distribute and use across the value
  chain.
• media professionals, enterprise designers,
  talented amateurs
• more expressive, communicative participative
  forms of content enhanced productivity greater
  ease of (re)use
• organisations, communities
• more effective acquisition, processing
  distribution of digital content and
  machine-tractable knowledge sharingin
  collaborative environments

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E2 after CALL 1 3

• Call 13 Objective Intelligent Content and
  semantics.
• 28 projects, 234 contractors, 101 M
• 3 RTDD main lines
• Online content, interactive and social media,
• Knowledge discovery and management
• Reasoning and information exploitation.

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FP7 Call 1

• inputs
• 148 proposals
• 1210 participants from 50 countries
• 473 Meuro requested, 51 Meuro available
• outputs (110)
• 15 proposals retained for negotiation
• 128 participants from 21 countries
• 55 academia research centres
• 45 business public sector

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Response

• popular themes
• content creation processing, media (film, TV,
  advertising ) other appls (eg surveillance)
• knowledge management in a range of business
  public-interest domains
• personalisation summarisation
• Recurring features video 3D automated
  extraction, annotation indexing social
  approaches
• gaps
• creative authoring (eg online games, virtual
  worlds, industrial design )
• immersive rendering, multimodal consumption

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Successful proposals

• post-production tools for the film games
  industry
• semantic coding of 3D objects, sharing of 3D
  models
• semantic wikis as a knowledge management tool
• enterprise knowledge aids integrating social
  software semantics
• distributed, approximate incomplete reasoning

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FP7 Call 3

• inputs
• 252 proposals (41)
• 2017 participants from 49 countries
• 817 Meuro requested, 50 Meuro available
• Outputs (119 -5)
• 13 proposals retained for negotiation
• 106 participants from 21 countries
• 51 academia research centres
• 49 business public sector

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Response

• popular themes
• content creation processing,
• Semantic foundations and knowledge management
• Social interaction to support activities of
  organisation or communities
• Temporal reasoning, dimensional reasoning and
  uncertainty

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Successful proposals

• The highest-ranked proposals clearly focussed on
  advancing the current state of the art by
  considering multiple media types, novel
  rich-content environments, semantic foundations
  and knowledge management
• Authoring environments for creative
  professionals and amateurs covering video, game
  development, story telling, graphic design.
• Exploiting ambient information coming from
  virtual as opposed to real environments

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Online Content, Interactive Social Media
FP7 project portfolio http//cordis.europa.eu/info
-management/
APIDIS
CASAM
IMP
PuppyIR
SMARTMUSEUM
ACTIVE
ANSWER
KYOTO
3D POST
eLICO
IRIS
KIWI
FOCUS K3D
WEKNOWIT
INSEMTIVES
SYNC3
SERVICE FINDER
NoTube
SmartProducts
JUMAS
LARKC
PLUGIT
VALUE IT
PRONTO
CALBC
IKS
OKKAM
ONTORULE
Knowledge Discovery Management
Reasoning Information Exploitation
CALL 1 CALL3
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PROBLEMS after 2 calls

• Participation of the new member states
• 1st call
• Only 14 contractors out of 118 are from new
  countries.
• Using 8 of the funding
• 3rd call
• Only 3 contractors out of 93 are from new
  countries.
• Using 1.6 of the funding

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PROBLEMS after 2 calls

• Participation of SME
• STREP 24 of the requested funding was for SMEs
• IP 26 of the requested funding was for SMEs
• CSA-SA 20 of the requested funding was for SMEs
• NoE 0 of the requested funding was for SMEs
• ALTOUGH
• SMEs make up 99 of European enterprises and
  employ over 65 million people.

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FP7 ICT Work Programme
FP7 ICT Work programme 2009-2010

• Calls for Proposals in 2007

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ICT Challenge 4 Digital Libraries and Content

• UNIT E2
• FROM 2007-2008 Intelligent Content
• TO 2009-2010 Intelligent Information
  Management

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Intelligent Information Management

• The rationale for furthering a research programme
  in Intelligent Content and Semantics in the
  2009-2010 timeframe is a simple analysis of the
  rate at which digital content is being produced
  and the changing conditions of its production and
  consumption.
• In 2010 more than 500 billion digital images will
  be captured on digital cameras and mobile phones
  (up from 250 billion in 2006).
• Similar increases in the volume of digital
  information can be observed as the result of the
  automation of experimental protocols (for example
  in biomedicine), the coming on line of sensors
  and RFID readers, the deployment of CCTV cameras,
  satellites with ever greater resolution, etc.

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UNIT E2 Intelligent Information Management

• Key consultation themes
• Capturing tractable Information
• Delivering pertinent information
• Collaboration and decision support
• Personal sphere
• Impact and ST leadership
• Key dimensions any kind of large data sets
  real time

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Overall approach .1

• research for a purpose, problem objective
  driven
• centred around users, data flows
• a compelling use case is as important as the
  underlying research
• meaningful demonstrator(s), field validation
  assessment
• active promotion dissemination of results
  beyond scientific circles

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Overall approach .2

• address clearly established problems, widely
  recognised outside academic circles
• better quality of output
• save time
• cut cost
• application requirements
• driving innovative ICT developments
• use of ICT in the application context
• prerequisites, incentives, repercussions

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MORE INFORMATION?
UNIT E2 WEB SITE http//cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/c
ontent-knowledge/
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FP7 ICT Work Programme
Part 2 Tips and Hints

• Calls for Proposals in 2007

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Time schedule Call 5

• Call 5 will be published on 31 July 2009
• Deadline 3 November 2009
• Indicative Budget 70M

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Some statistics!

• IPs ? impact
• up to 4 years, 5-9 Meuro (EU funding)
• NoEs ? integration
• up to 3 years, up to 3.5 Meuro
• STRs research ? ST innovation
• up to 3 years, 2-4 Meuro
• STRs demonstration ? uptake
• up to 2 years, 1-3 Meuro
• CSAs (coordination support actions)
• up to 3 years, up to 1.5 Meuro

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Partnerships

• keep consortium manageable
• compact consortia (8.5 on average in Call 1)
• IPs 7-12 partners
• STRs 4-8 partners
• NoEs 3-4 core partners
• select competent, committed reliable partners
  geography not an issue!
• industry, SME, academia participation as
  dictated by project needs
• launching user organisations to provide a
  demanding problem application/validationcontext

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Success factors .1

• Quality
• Impact
• Effectiveness
• but also
• Relevance wrt. WP (remember 150 to 200
  proposals!)
• Credibility
• Contrary to earlier calls, evaluators will have
  access to Web sources previous projects, teams
  skills, background reference documents

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Success factors .2

• Its a project, not a dissertation
• problem?
• user?
• data?
• outputs (incl. public ones)?
• metrics?
• impact?
• exploitation channels?

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Success factors .3

• preserve your credibility select one proposal
  make it win
• ensure that the proposal brings out both
  innovation exploitation potential
• full depth of participation rather than long list
  of organisations
• key individuals, expertise achievements rather
  than long list of projects

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Reasons for failure

• RTD content
• narrow scope, little or no EU dimension
• lack of focus, aims too general
• lack of innovation, current state of art missing
• planning
• links missing between objectives work plan
• milestones missing or too general
• risk factors not addressed, no contingency plans
• no monitorable indicators, no metrics
• management
• consortium not balanced, gaps in the skills mix
• lack of integration between partners
• vague management structure
• weak or narrow dissemination plans
• ill-defined exploitation prospects

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Further info

• ICT under FP7 cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/
• Unit E2 Technologies for Information
  Management.
• URL http//cordis.europa.eu/info-management/
• mailto infso-e2_at_ec.europa.eu

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FP7 ICT Work Programme
Thank You

• Calls for Proposals in 2007