Current and strategic ideas

Ambitious aims

To build up the world leading video scientific online service that will change the current scientific education and universities model

Free access to the lectures from well known conferences

Free access to lectures from high reputation universities

To allow free and unlimited access to high quality scientific lectures from the prominent lecturers, universities and conferences around the world

To open to the researchers and students from poor, underdeveloped and third countries the access to the expensive conferences and university programmes

To enrich the learning experience with the most advanced content technologies, media and devices

Global Impact

Impact to scientific communityTargeting the scientific community

Research projects

Conferences

Impact to industriesKnowledge transfer and training

Impact to societyFree and open, accessible to everyone

Widening the scope

How?Combining the three communities - Leaders in their field

EU universities – OpenCDN base+ semantic technologies and services on the top

OCWC – standards, curricula, content

Opencast– content gathering/coding/channeling software

EU funded research project (3-4 years, from 3M to 10M Euros)

New business models

New open training organisational models

Integrated solution (gather-organise-channel-comment)

Semantically rich services including

Funding options

EU funds from:ICT RTD programme

CIP PSP programme

Joint research funds like Eureka

Support from national funds in Europe

Support from investorsSome expression of interest already

What are our strengths?Deep involvement in EU co-funded research

JSI: 111 institutions only on EU RTD

EU wide visibility

Strategic decisions by many academic institutions to go “open”

Coherent and established group of institutions in PascalStill 4 years of funding

Representatives of the most active institutions worldwide and the most prominent communities

complementariness

Excellent research track record (+ links) on content handling/understanding

Pascal coverage

EC Programmes (2007-2013) (http://ec.europa.eu/grants)

ICT related programmesFP7 Seventh Framework Programme on RTD (48.4 B Euros)Lifelong Learning (6.7B Euros)CIP >> Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (3.6 B Euros)Media 2007 (775M Euros)Culture 2007 (400M Euros)

Other programmesCitizens for Europe >> Citizens for EuropeConsumer programme >> Programme of Community action in the field of consumer policyEurope for CitizensFiscalis Progress >> Community Programme for Employment and Social Solidarity

InternationalCo-operation

Science in Society

Research Potential

Regions of Know-ledge

Research for the benefit of SMEs

ResearchInfrastruc-tures

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Marie Curie ActionsPEOPLE

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ICT programme - DLObjective ICT-2009.4.1: Digital libraries and digital preservation

a) Scalable systems and services for preserving digital content:

b) Advanced preservation scenarios:Methods and tools for preserving complex objects,

Intelligent digital curation and preservation systems able to learn, reason and act autonomously,

c) Innovative solutions for assembling multimedia digital libraries

Research under this Challenge should take into consideration relevant technologies and other results from successfully completed or ongoing projects.

IP/STREP: EUR 56 million with a minimum of 50% to IPs

NoE and CSA: EUR 13 million;

Expected Impact

Significant advances in the ability to offer easily customisable access services to scientific and cultural digital resources, improving their use, experiencing and understandings;

Reinforced capacity for organisations to preserve digital content in a more effective and cost-efficient manner, safeguarding the authenticity and integrity of these records;

Significant reduction in the loss of irreplaceable information and new opportunities for its re-use, contributing to efficient knowledge production;

Leading edge research in Europe strengthened through restructuring of the digital libraries and digital preservation research landscape. Leveraged impact of research results.

Key innovative aspectsContext aware content (knowledge) objects (multimodal)

Emergent, Networked, Communicating, Cognitive

Adaptive

Micro to meta structures (assembled objects – curriculum)

Genuine search and visualisation methodsSemantically rich methods (classifying, search, modeling,

Semantically enriched content (content, methods, context)

Complex space visualisation methods

Distributed/scalable libraries OpenCDN

Automated workflow (cost effective)Matterhorn

Consortia competences

Knowledge and context technologies, semantics

Cognitive systems

Digital libraries, standards, structures

Distributed content

Multimodal content but video as the main driver

Critical mass

ICT programme - TEL

Objective ICT-2009.4.2: Technology-enhanced learning

Learning in the 21st Century: large-scale pilots for the design of the future classroom (exploring both technology and teaching practices, for teachers and students, their orchestration for specific, justified age groupings or subjects), supporting individualisation, collaborations, creativity and expressiveness in more active, reflective and independent learning activities. Research should address innovation in learning and teaching, the underlining change processes, relevant new summative and formative assessment methods and novel solutions supporting the active participation of a wider community of stakeholders contributing to student’s growth.

CIP PSP

Former eContentObjective 2.4: Open access to scientific information

New programme planned for 2010Expressed interest for video content inclusion

Meeting with officers planned for June 20th

Europeana

XGO as a case study

Digital libraries and content

Technology-enhanced learning

Intelligent information management

Internet of Services, Software and Virtualisation

Radar activities

Information office about current and future calls

Strategic projectOpenCourse

WareMIT + >140 Universities

Curriculum, standards, quality of training

OpenCast Berkeley, ETH +

34 top World Universities

OS for video recording at Universities

VL as CDCs

Open CDNVideolectures +

JSI team

Using University Internet links and servers

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Open CourseWare, OpenCast, OpenCDN

Open source, open models, open organisation

Achieving major impact in the traditional academic setting

Universities,

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Scientific conferences,

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OPENCDN (HW resource sharing)

OpenCast(Integrated platform + content gathering)

OCWC (Content structuring and Cognitive

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Training dissemination channels (videolectures, iTunesU,…)

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Prototyping and Integration

New business and

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Other ideas

Innovation tube

First SCI video journal

Virtual universities and virtual programmes

Text and video understanding

Gadgets:Video and stream mining

Video scene recognition and automatic annotation

Deep semantic search

Multilingual support

Advanced presentation services with direct user involvement

Intelligent and self-aware knowledge objects

Textual, graphical, video (audio) content integration services and enrichment