Heli LehtimäkiEuropean Commission

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TopicsTopics

• Programme structure and means

• Action lines with project examples

• No-go cases

• Wrap-up

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

5-10 % of projects financed

85% of projects financed

5-10% of projects financed

Years 2001 -2003 some 80 funded projects

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AL1AL2AL3

Organisations from 31 participating countries (EU15+10AC+N, IS, LI, BU, RO, TR):

50% Small and Medium Sized private companies

30% Public bodies

20% Non-profit organisations, universities, others

Demonstration Projects AL 1.1 + 2.2• Normal size 5 - 8 partners

• Up to € 2.5 million EU funding

• Projects normally run 24 months (up to 30)

• Commercially viable (1.1. more than 2.2)

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)

• Test bed for early experimentation

Feasibility Projects entire AL 1 and 2

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

Cross-border information services based on PSICross-border information services based on PSI

New business and revenue models

PublicSector

Information

Private sector

InformationServices

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Content provision Value adding

Action Line 1.1Action Line 1.1 Services based on Services based on public sector informationpublic sector information

Objective

Access to legal information for citizens

Combine GI and legal information Develop a strategy and exploitation plan for value added services based around open access to public sector information (PSI) addressing laws.

Market/Users

Citizens, law professionals.

Partners

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

Lexicons, grammars, ...

FUNSIEC: FUNSIEC: Feasibility for a UNified Semantic Infrastructure in the European Construction sector

Feasibility project AL 2.2Feasibility project AL 2.2

Assess the feasibility to build an Open Semantic Infrastructure for European Construction Sector (OSIECS) to support the development of e-services

Semantic and linguistic e-resources devoted to the construction sector Exploit public results produced by international initiatives and European projects

• Establish a technical framework to gather semantic and linguistic e-resources to be used by content and e-service providers for the construction sector

• Define guidelines for partnerships that allow the creation, evolution and maintenance of OSIECS and the semantic resources

• Propose an implementation plan to help the adoption of OSIECS within the European construction sector

• Contribute to the establishment of EU standards (including reference linguistic resources) for construction within language diversity

• Identify and characterise the e-services to be developed by e-service providers aiming at to capitalise the benefits of the OSIECS

FUNSIEC outputs

The “no-go”

cases

Call 4

No-eContent-AL1 No-eContent-AL1

NO Action Line 1NO Action Line 1

ObjectiveCreation of a “Citizen Information Tool” for European municipalities. The tool will allow Municipalities to improve their services to the citizens making available on-line their administrative information.

Market/UsersMunicipalities of Europe which will buy the tool. Citizens which will have better services.

Too Technical => Development of a toolToo Technical => Development of a tool

eGovernment => Service to the citizeneGovernment => Service to the citizen

No commercial exploitation of digital content No commercial exploitation of digital content

No-eContent-AL2 No-eContent-AL2

NO Action Line 2NO Action Line 2

ObjectiveCreation and translation in three languages of a catalogue of medical products. The catalogue will be made available on the web.

Market/UsersHealth Care Industry.

No static translation of web sites or cataloguesNo static translation of web sites or catalogues

No expandability to other languagesNo expandability to other languages

No easy way of keeping up to date the No easy way of keeping up to date the catalogue catalogue

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

What‘s in for educational establishements?What‘s in for educational establishements?

• 34 (out of 500) entities in23 (out of 80) projects

• „eLearning“ projects such as Telestia (AL2) – online learning in fashion and clothing in six languages Harmos (AL1) - European multilingual data collection for multimedia music content for eLearning ready for exploitation

• But mostly in other types of projects e.g.– harmonising data collections– providing expertise (pedagogy, psychology, languages, legal

information etc.)

Points of attentionPoints of attention

• Timely delivery by 14 May 2004 17 hrs > evaluation in June > project start in early 2005

• Importance of abstract and introduction• consistency in work packages - project milestones - WP

interdependencies

• reasoned structure of deliverables• demonstration of co-financing capacity and resources available• elaborated business model AL 1.1 (more than a WP promising

to develop one later on!)• description of the potential market, addressing competition or

fall back options

RealitiesRealities• Up to now high oversupscription rate – current

economic situation– Only excellent proposals will receive funding– Formally non-eligible and out of scope proposals consistently

rejected

• With 80 funded projects and other existing actions in the market innovation becomes an issue

• Financial rules of the Commission– Impact on projects selected for funding– Joint liability – select your partners carefully!

For more information, visit:For more information, visit:

http://www.cordis.lu/econtent/

http://www.content-village.org/

Thank you for your attention.