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Information Society Technologies Programme
Semantic Web Technologies in IST Key Action
III (Multimedia Content and Tools) Hans-Georg
StorkCEC DG INFSO/D5 Hans-Georg.Stork_at_cec.eu.in
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Overview
Where What How
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Context
5th Framework Programme
Thematicprogrammes
Quality of life sustainable resources
Competitive sustainable growth
User friendly information society ( IST )
Preserving the ecosystem
Key actions
Systems services for citizens
New methods of work e-commerce
Multimedia content tools
Essential technologies infrastructures
Key areas
Interactive publishing
Education training
Information access, filtering, analysis handling
Digital content cultural heritage
Human language technologies
Themes and topics (updated annually)
Semantic Web Technologies
2001
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ContextMultimedia Content and Tools
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Context MCT objectives

• Improve the
• functionality
• usability
• acceptability
• linguistic cultural diversity of
• future information products services.

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Context Information access, filtering analysis
and handling
Research priorities - mastering information -
information management - information categorising
Application areas - all subject areas
2001 focus Semantic Web technologies
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Semantic Web technologies
The basic assumption
The World Wide Web is becoming a major vehicle
for the distribution and delivery of multimedia
content (including video and audio), accessible
from stationary (including domestic) and mobile
platforms.
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Semantic Web technologies
Where do we want to go? Where do we start
from? How do we get there?
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Semantic Web technologies
Goals
enabling better access to Web-based content,
its retrieval, filtering and handling, pertinent
to users needs and interests, living up to their
quality expectations ...
and having these operations done through
intuitively appealing interaction with largely
autonomous intelligent agents ...
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Semantic Web technologies
Starting points
resource description
XML as lingua franca
information retrieval
multimedia databases
knowledge engineering
content analysis
standards and recommendations
agents (intelligent, autonomous, mobile, etc.)
projects (Ontoknowledge, Acacia, C-Web, Ibrow,
Kirmit, etc)
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Semantic Web technologies
A threefold way
formalizing
grounding
acting
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Semantic Web technologies
A threefold way (formalizing)
Methods and tools for coding and structuring
digital content, for defining and declaring its
semantics.
These would typically employ XML, RDF and other
techniques for semantic interoperability and
reasoning such as ontologies for domain specific
applications.
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Semantic Web technologies
A threefold way (grounding)
Methods and tools for the derivation of semantic
attributes of Web-based content (in particular
video, audio and images)...
through e.g. automatic feature detection, video
segmentation and annotation, etc.
multimedia indexing/metadata based on content
analysis
automated categorization of Web resources.
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Semantic Web technologies
A threefold way (acting)
Semantics-based tools for knowledge/resource
discovery, transactions, intelligent filtering
and profiling ...
such as intelligent information agents and
specific query languages
semantics-based tools for collaborative filtering
and knowledge sharing in specific or general user
communities
intelligent and/or visual interfaces to such
tools, where appropriate, based on virtual
reality paradigms.
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Semantic Web technologies
Paralipomena
sustainability
scalability
platform specific constraintsTV, mobile (WAP,
UMTS, CC/PP, )
ease of access
content presentation
etc...
integrating geographic information
n. pl. things added as supplement to main text
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Semantic Web technologies

• Working out the details
• 22 - 23 November, Luxembourg
• Workshop Semantic Web technologies
• clarifying issues
• putting forward project ideas
• making contact
• YOU ARE MOST WELCOME!

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pointers
IST http//www.cordis.lu/ist
Key Action III, Multimedia Content and
Tools http//www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3
Area Information Access, Filtering, Analysis
and Handling http//www.cordis.lu/ist/ka3/iaf