1 Multimedia Knowledge Management Network: Industry meets Academia! Glasgow University Imperial College London Northumbria University Open University Queen Mary, University of London University of Brighton University of Sheffield University of Southampton Funded by EPSRC

2 Welcome to Milton Keynes Intro –What is the MMKM network? –What happens today –Housekeeping

3 Aims and Objectives Promote communication: workshops, list Develop a research roadmap for Multimedia Knowledge Management and applications Create and maintain resources (web site) Assist training of new researchers Disseminate research activities by network members Sustain network past 2007

4 Open to new members Individuals working in this area –join list on Groups working in this area: join network – 1) what the group does 2) how you can contribute to the network

5 So far… Support for –45 trips to conferences, summer schools, labs, …. (young researchers) –Workshops Semantic Image Retrieval - The User Perspective, Brighton, Mar 2007 Industry meets academia, Milton Keynes, Jan 2007 Adaptive Information Retrieval (AIR), Oct 2006, Glasgow Visual Categorisation and Image Management Systems, Sunderland, June 2006 Semantic Interoperability for e-Research in the Sciences, Arts and Humanities, London, Mar 2006 European workshop on the integration of knowledge, Semantic and multimedia technologies, London, Dec 2005 Adaptive Multimedia Retrieval Workshop, Glasgow, Jul 2005 Kick-off workshop, London, Sept 2004 Summer schools ESSIR 2007, Glasgow ESSIR 2005, Dublin Website Roadmap in work

6 Roadmap activities Look at a snapshot of (UK) research Identify strengths and trends Co-author a “living” document If you would like to contribute, do come along…

7 Today: industry and academia Explore some challenges and opportunities –Community-created resources –Convergence of media and communication –Personalisation –Long tail: new distribution mechanisms Some collaboration instruments –EPSRC CASE studentships –Research contracts, Consulting –Shared resources –DTI collaboration –EU FP7 collaboration –Secondments to industry, sabbatical programmes

8 Housekeeping: Poster location

9 Multimedia Knowledge Management Network: Industry meets Academia! Glasgow University Imperial College London Northumbria University Open University Queen Mary, University of London University of Brighton University of Sheffield University of Southampton Funded by EPSRC

10 Thanks to The speakers, poster authors & presenters EPSRC for funding The Knowledge Media Institute & OU for hosting –Mark Butler, Adrian Hardwick, Andy Lee and Derek Beesley (AV) –Peter Devine (graphics and badges) –Ben Hawkridge (webcast) –Peter Howarth (session chair) –Haiming Liu (registration, AV help) –Ainhoa Llorente (registration) –Dawei Song (posters) –Catherine Thomas (catering, printing, rooms, boards) –Aneta Tumilowicz (parking, hotel) –Alexei Yavlinsky (publicity & website) –Jianhang Zhu (AV liaison, session chair)

11 Multimedia Knowledge Management Network: Industry meets Academia! Glasgow University Imperial College London Northumbria University Open University Queen Mary, University of London University of Brighton University of Sheffield University of Southampton Funded by EPSRC