1. IST Programme - Key Action III Semantic Web Technologies in IST Key Action III (Multimedia Content and Tools) Hans-Georg Stork CEC DG INFSO/D5 Hans-Georg.Stork@cec.eu.int Information Society Technologies Programme

2. IST Programme - Key Action III Where What How Overview

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

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

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

6. IST Programme - Key Action III Research priorities: - mastering information - information management - information categorising Application areas: - all subject areas 2001 focus: Semantic Web technologies Context: Information access, filtering analysis and handling

7. 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.

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

9. 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...

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

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

12. 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.

13. 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.

14. 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.

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

16. 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!

17. IST Programme - Key Action III IST : http://www.cordis.lu/ist pointers 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