Interactive
Electronic Publishing in Europe
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Interactive Electronic Publishing
in Europe
This page provides the starting
point for information on El.pub concerned with the Interactive Electronic
Publishing (IEP). It provided an on-going overview of the sector, and links
to information about some of the projects being supported. Since this page
was started, the INFORM project,
responsible for El.pub, have published factsheets from all of the projects
run under Key Action Line III - Multimedia Content & Tools of the IST
programme in the European Union's 5th RTD Framework 1999-2002. These are published
on El.pub (see: factsheets/inform/index.html),
and are also available as an interactive CD-ROM.
The Interactive Electronic Publishing
(IEP) sector of the European Commission's Information Society Technologies
(IST) Programme is part of Multimedia Content and Tools, Key Action III of
the IST Programme, which itself fell within the the 5th Framework RTD Programme.
The research and development projects funded by the Interactive Electronic
Publishing sector focused primarily on generating, managing, personalising
creative digital content.
Whilst the objectives were common
- the application areas are wide - encompassing scientific and business information,
news, advertising, entertainment, information for the citizen and geographic
information. The IEP sector issued a number of RTD lines in the yearly IST
workprogrammes, covering the main RTD issues represented within the IEP value
chain: Authoring and design systems and Content management and
personalisation.
Two concepts are central to the
objectives of the action line, although these were modified with successive
work programmes (as indicated below):
- First, promoting
creativity and better design of multimedia content through the
application of advanced technology in areas such as interactivity,
visual content, 3D, virtual reality and other broadband content. This
area involves: validating the use of the technology, innovative
products and services; transferring old communication skills to new
environments; and developing new means of communication.
- Second, improving the
authoring, design and production systems for creating content. This
area involves new workflow procedures such as real-time
tele-collaboration, cross-media integration and new multi-platform
publishing and broadcasting applications. The benefits will include
greater usability, functionality and productivity and more attractive
products and services.
Authoring interactive web
content - this action line was further refined in the 2000 work programme,
with additional emphasis being placed on web-based publishing.
Digitisation has created a
situation where the delivery methods for electronic information have
become progressively independent of the final rendering on TV, cinema or
computer screen. Information, whether intended for use in a business,
knowledge or life-style environment, is packaged by the broadcaster or
publisher in a variety of forms, delivered through alternative channels,
for viewing on whatever device the user has available. New content
management possibilities are opened. Access, delivery and
personalisation from large distributed and multi-owner collections (eg.
digital libraries) require new methods and tools.
This area includes:
automated content packaging, tailoring, user control, web-based systems,
agent services, new business models, transaction systems for asset
management and user access, standards for interoperability, privacy. The
benefits will include improved asset productivity, user control, and
access to products and services.
Personalising content
- this action line was further refined in the 2000 work programme with emphasis
shifting from content management to personalisation and at a service level
to address web-based services.
Aiming to promote the use
of new multimedia authoring and design systems as well as personalised
applications of high-quality multimedia content and services in key
areas (knowledge, business and lifestyle publishing, advertising and
geographic information), the focus of this action line is on:
- trials of new multimedia
authoring and design systems by content creators
- trials to validate the
technologies for personalised creation, publishing, access and
delivery of distributed multimedia content
- test-beds to validate
the functionality, usability and acceptability of Internet authoring
and production tools, and personalised delivery of rich multimedia
content to users, including the socially excluded.
In order to give examples of how
IEP projects addressed the principal aims set out in the work programmes defined
for Interactive Electronic Publishing, we have grouped a representative sample
using a “clustering” scheme (and colour coded) under the
headings of:
- Geographic
information (GI) and mobility
- Personalisation
- Human representation,
virtual reality and entertainment
- Audio/video,
creativity and publishing
- Awareness
activities
- Socio-economic
support activities
These clusters provide a convenient
“short hand” definition of the key areas addressed by Interactive
Electronic Publishing research. Below we provide links to individual pages
on El.pub providing further explanations of the projects, (based on project
submissions), a link to download a more recent project description in the
form of a factsheet in pdf format, and links to project web sites which provide
the most up-to-date information on project progress.
Complete set of IST Programme's
Multimedia Content and Tools (KA Line III) Projects
A complete set of factsheets from
projects run within the IST Programme's Multimedia Content and Tools (KA Line
III), including a written introduction to the its role within the IST Programme,
is available on CD-ROM, free of charge, by contacting the
European Commission at the address given at the foot of this page. The
facsheets are also published online on El.pub and can be viewed via this link:
factsheets/inform/index.html.
Please
note: these factsheets were published in July 2002 and therefore postdate
all the information published below.
Projects from 2001
| ACTIVE_AD
will create a flexible and intelligent
presentation system to access statistical and other data in a distributed
virtual environment. |
| URL: home web
site |
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| COMMORG
will study Organisational
Consequences of E-mail Introduction, Adoption and Diffusion. |
| URL: home web
site |
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| ENRICH
trial will introduce and evaluate an integrated asset management factory
and the Pantheon methodology in order to assess the business advantages. |
| URL: home web
site |
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| HORTONET 3
will validate a
new social and business model for garden and other films of cultural heritage
with a range of multimedia options. |
| URL: home web
site |
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| HYPERFILM
enables the user to
enrich digital video with content references in order to produce high
quality multimedia content. |
| URL: home web
site |
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| IMAGEN
will develop an integrated set of tools for personalised publication and
distribution of digital media content over the Internet. |
| URL: home web
site |
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| RADICAL
will foster the emergence of a sustainable community of active research
collaborators made up of the ICT and creative industries. |
| URL: home web
site |
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| TEDIP
will study the regional
development of the digital value chain, the way it relates to the convergence
between television and the web, and its effect on content provision. |
| URL: http://tedip.joensuu.fi |
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VIZARD will
develop Video Books, that can contain hyper-video representations to build
distributed and personalised collections. |
| URL: home web
site |
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VNET 5 will promote the
widespread adoption of a user-centred approach to user evaluation in IEP
and other IST projects. |
| URL: home web
site |
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| GeoTraceAgri
will define a methodology for
the sampling, acquisition, utilization and processing of georeferenced
data that will be used to generate agro-environmental indicators at various
geographical scales. |
| URL:
home web site http://www.geotraceagri.net |
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| FASTER
will study consumer responses
to interactivity and to advertising in different environments, such as
e-commerce. |
| URL: home web
site http://www.faster-data.org |
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| ETEMII
aims to organise a network of excellence, bringing together the
stakeholders of the Territorial Management Information market from
research, industry and the public sector. Such a network will build a
technical consensus for a European GI (Geographical Information)
Infrastructure. |
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| B2B-ECOM
will develop a framework for catalogues that promotes inter-operation
based on standards and open specifications. |
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| C-WEB
aims at designing a generic and open technology that will bridge the
gaps that exist between data, documents, and knowledge. |
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| CIWOS
will develop a system to automatically locate and retrieve text,
images, video, and audio from a multilingual audio-visual database by
performing content-based searches. European languages supported
include: English, Greek, and French. |
| URL: Home
web site http://www.xanthi.ilsp.gr/ciwos/ |
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| IRAIA
will develop real-world testbeds that provide economic information
from the large databases of economic research institutes and national
statistical institutions. |
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| OPELIX
plans to provide tools to create personalised information offerings,
taking into account: copyright protection; certification of the data;
timely delivery of the data; payment schemes. |
| URL: home
web site http://www.opelix.org |
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| PEACH
is developing a tool for the production and provision of
personalisation services for the media industry. |
| URL: home
web site http://www.peach-eu.org |
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| PSI3
will specify a generic architecture for the development of
personalised services for integrated Internet information. |
| URL:
home web site www.psi3project.org |
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| MESH
The goal of MESH is to create highly realistic virtual heads in terms
of their shape, texture, and dynamics (emotions and speech) |
| URL: home
web site http://www.meshproject.org/ |
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| PAPERLESS
will design and evaluate an advanced animation environment based on
the combination of user-friendly software tools integrated with an
innovative interaction device. |
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| ADVISOR
is a state-of-the-art project that is developing interactive and
semi-automatic tools for video annotations and video retrieval. |
| URL: home
web site http://advisor.matrasi-tls.fr |
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| EPIFOCAL
will provide awareness and dissemination for Interactive Electronic
Publishing in Key Action III (Multimedia Content and Tools) - through
publishing this web site and arranging meetings. |
| URL: home
web site http://www.pira.co.uk/IE/ |
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| GFORS
has as its key objective to reduce the cost of European programme
production by making programme content available in an efficient and
cost effective way. |
| URL: home
web site http://www.g-fors.com |
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| ITV
covers the whole value chain from designing and authoring highly
visual content to delivering it to world-wide audiences on the
web/digital TV. |
| URL: home
web site http://itv.altus.de |
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| MIGRATOR
is developing a new generation of content creation and personalisation
tools for still pictures, using existing material and the emerging
JPEG 2000 standard. |
| URL: home
web site http://www.migrator2000.org/ |
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| VISIONS
is a system for the virtual prototyping of stories throughout their
entire life cycle, from authoring, planning ,production ,through to
post-production. |
| URL: home
web site http://www.visions4d.com |
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| WEDELMUSIC
is an innovative idea for the distribution of interactive music via
the Internet. |
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The Interactive Electronic Publishing
sector, through its awareness activities, fostered the exchange of information
between projects and from industry. This interaction provided the potential
for maximising the exploitation of results in a commercial setting, which
at the same time enabled the application and use of the research to address
the needs of citizens in the emerging Information Society.
For further information concerning
Interactive Electronic Publishing, or to order a copy of the project factsheets
for Key Action Line III - Multimedia Content & Tools on CD-ROM, contact:
Pascal Jacques
EUFO/1195
European Commission
Information Society Directorate General
Bâtiment Jean Monnet
LUXEMBOURG
L-2920
Email: mailto:pascal.jacques@cec.eu.int
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