Information Society Technologies Programme Semantic Web Technologies in

Information Society Technologies Programme Semantic Web Technologies in IST Key Action III (Multimedia Content and Tools) Hans-Georg Stork CEC DG INFSO/D 5 Hans-Georg. Stork@cec. eu. int IST Programme - Key Action III

Overview Where What How IST Programme - Key Action III

Context 5 th Framework Programme Thematic programme s Quality of life & sustainable resources Key actions Key area s Competitive & sustainable growth Systems & services for citizens Interactive publishing Themes and topics (updated annually) IST Programme - Key Action III New methods of work & e-commerce Digital content & cultural heritage User friendly information society ( IST ) Multimedia content & tools Education & training Preserving the ecosystem Essential technologies & infrastructures Human language technologies 2001: Information access, filtering, analysis & handling Semantic Web Technologies

Context: Multimedia Content and Tools Demonstration Technology IST Programme - Key Action III

Context: MC&T objectives m m Improve the functionality usability acceptability linguistic & cultural diversity of future information products & services. IST Programme - Key Action III

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 IST Programme - Key Action III

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. IST Programme - Key Action III

Semantic Web technologies Where do we want to go? Where do we start from? How do we get there? IST Programme - Key Action III

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. . . IST Programme - Key Action III

Semantic Web technologies Starting points XML as lingua franca multimedia databases content analysis resource description information retrieval knowledge engineering standards and recommendations agents (intelligent, autonomous, mobile, etc. ) projects (Ontoknowledge, Acacia, C-Web, Ibrow, Kirmit, etc…) IST Programme - Key Action III

Semantic Web technologies A threefold way formalizing ‘grounding’ acting IST Programme - Key Action III

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. IST Programme - Key Action III

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. IST Programme - Key Action III

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. IST Programme - Key Action III

Semantic Web technologies Paralipomena* sustainability scalability platform specific constraints: TV, mobile (WAP, UMTS, CC/PP, …) ease of access content presentation integrating geographic information etc. . . *n. pl. things added as supplement to main text IST Programme - Key Action III

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! IST Programme - Key Action III

pointers IST: http: //www. cordis. lu/ist Key Action III, Multimedia Content and Tools: http: //www. cordis. lu/ist/ ka 3 Area “Information Access, Filtering, Analysis and Handling”: http: //www. cordis. lu/ist/ka 3/iaf IST Programme - Key Action III