Federico MilaniEuropean Commission

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• The eContent programmeThe eContent programme

• The call IVThe call IV

• The project typesThe project types

AgendaAgenda

EU Actions for digital contentEU Actions for digital content

Regulatory framework:-Copyrights in the Information Society-Re-use and commercial exploitation of PSI

EU funding:- Information markets: eContent Digital content and

language diversity on the global networks- Transeuropean networks: eTen- Research: FP6/IST programme- Audio-visual and Culture: Media Plus, Culture

2000

Political context:eEurope 2005 Action Plan

-Stimulating services, applications and content-Broadband infrastructure

Improving access to and expanding the use of public sector information

Enhancing content production in a multilingual and multicultural environment

Increasing dynamism of the digital content market

Action Line 1Action Line 1 Action Line 2Action Line 2 Action Line 3Action Line 3

eContent 2001-2005: 100 million EuroeContent 2001-2005: 100 million Euro

Call 3Call 1 Call 2 Call 425 M€

2001 2002 2003 2004 2005

40%-45% 40%-45% 10%-15%

27 M€20 M€ 29 M€

Feasibility projects

Demonstration projects

Accompanying measures

5 % of projects financed

85% of projects financed

10% of projects financed

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Organisations from 31 participating countries:

50% Small and Medium Sized private companies

30% Public bodies

20% Non-profit organisations, universities, others

Action line 1 Improving access to and expanding use of

public sector information

Call 4

European Digital data collections

Public-private partnerships

What is public sector information?

– Legal/administrativeLegal/administrative

– Financial/economical Financial/economical

– Culture, archives, entertainment, information materialCulture, archives, entertainment, information material

– Geographical data including land and property Geographical data including land and property information, traffic information, environmental datainformation, traffic information, environmental data

– Services at local level such at education, health etc. Services at local level such at education, health etc.

– Science and technical informationScience and technical information

– And more……………………………..And more……………………………..

Action line 1 Public sector information

Directive on re-use of Public sector information December 2003

Improve Access Expand Use

Cross-borderInformation

Services

EuropeanDigitalData

Collections

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PublicSector

Information

Action line 1 Public sector information

Cross-border information servicesCross-border information servicesCross-borderInformation

Services

PublicSector

Information

Private sector1

Cross-borderservices

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Added - value Information

Services€

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Action Line 1.1Action Line 1.1 Showcase Showcase the potential of public sector informationthe potential of public sector information

Objective

Provide personalised tourist services (Personalised Travel Packages) for European citizens and businesses exploiting a multi-channel platform (email, sms, voice portal)

Market/Users

European tourism enterprises and private citizens.

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Service Providers

Action Line 2

Producing Content in a multilingual and multicultural environment

Call 4

Partnerships between content and language industries

Linguistic infrastructure

Content – in which language?Content – in which language?

• English 35% (including US)

• Non-English 65%

• European roughly 35%

• Asian languages 26% (half of which Chinese)

Tendency towards localised content!

number of people online in each language zone (native speakers).

Source: http://www.global-reach.biz/globstats/index.php3

What do we mean withWhat do we mean with localisation? localisation?

• Adapting, maintaining information products and services to local markets

• Not just translation of words or internationalisation of software > translating different cultures

• Identifying and showcasing best practice

Action line 2 Multilingual and multicultural environment

Action line 1 Public sector information

What is the purpose?

To pool together the linguistic infrastructure in Europe to provide a convenient market place and access to it:

-Networking of existing regional and national resources and their access and use by content actors

-Development of new multilingual resources for less widely spoken languages

- Covering an adequate number of languages

Action line 2.2 Enhanced linguistic infrastructure

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InteraInteraObjective

Build an integrated European language resource area by connecting international, national, regional data centres and produce new multilingual resources.

Market/Users

Multimedia industries and users of language resources.

Action Line 2.2Action Line 2.2Strengthening the linguistic infrastructureStrengthening the linguistic infrastructure

Howintegration of language resources with the help of metadata descriptions and interlinking repositories

ResultA way for resource producers to create multilingual resources in an easier and more profitable way

Intera PartnersIntera Partners

Laboratoire lorrain de rechercheen informatique et ses applications

Institute for Language and Speech Processing

Closed

ClosedAction Line 3

Increasing dynamism of the digital content market

Call 3 - CSS

Call 4

Key features of a European projectKey features of a European project

Multi-nation, multi-party “consortium”– co-ordinator liaises with and reports to EC

– contractors sign contract

– members related to a contractor, do not sign contract

– subcontracting possible within limits

Cost sharing (EC contributes 50%) and risk sharing Results belong to consortium members

– IPR agreed between partners > consortium agreement not obligatory but strongly recommended

Dissemination of non-proprietary information– to feed awareness & best practice

Who can participate?• 31 Countries

– 15 EU Member states.

– EFTA Countries: Liechtenstein, Norway, Iceland.

– Accession countries (`= 10 new EU member states)

– Bulgaria, Romania, Turkey

– Other countries and international organisations can participate withoutwithout funding.

• Organisations– Public, Private, Non-Profit

Demonstration Projects• Normal size 5 - 8 partners

• Up to € 2.5 million EU funding

• Projects normally run 24 months (up to 30)

• Commercially viable

Projects: • Consortiums consisting of– At least 2 partners from at least 2 countries

– A lead partner reporting to the EC

• EC Contributes 50%

• The final result belongs to the consortium

• Normal size 2 - 4 partners

• Up to € 200,000 EU funding

• Projects normally run 9 months (up to 12)

• Not leading to a demonstration project

Feasibility Projects

Feasibility project AL 1Feasibility project AL 1

COSTECOSTE Combining Spatial & Traffic Contents for Regions in EuropeCombining Spatial & Traffic Contents for Regions in Europe

InternetInternet

RDS/TMC

ALERT-C

MotrowayTCC

UrbanTCC

Police

RoadAdmin.

ContentProvider

ContentIntegrators

Value AddedService Providers

NetworkOperators

DATEX-Net

InternetInternetInternetInternet

EndUsers

Value Addes Value Addes ServiceService

provisionprovisionCOSTECOSTE

• multiple content servers (geo, traffic, …)• static, semi-dynamic, dynamic / real-time info• standardised access interfaces• support to VAS provision

COSTE partners – expected resultsCOSTE partners – expected results

• Duration one year

• Concept for COSTE Traffic Reference Map Infrastructure, including

– specification of modular geo/traffic engineering combined maps (“CosteMap”)

– definition of (web-based) services to access and use the information (“CosteServices”)

• Proof of concept

• Product-definition plan

• Preparation of a follow-up

Municipality of GenoaMunicipality of Genoa

Matching

… … and practiceand practice

AvailableTechnology

Right Partnerships

Business Plans

InnovativeIdea

Commercially viable, self-sustainable project outcomes

Ingredients for an eContent project

What eContent is What eContent is notnot::• No technology research & development• No eGovernment• No pure translation

eContent keywords:eContent keywords:• Business dimension – close to market

• Partnerships– Public-private

– Content – language industries

• Readily available technology

Contact points & infoContact points & info

http://www.cordis.lu/econtent

Help deskHelp desk

eContent@cec.eu.int