Experience sharing on CIP-ICT-PSP

1. Advanced Services +
Enriched Metadata +
Multimedia Contents
4 Europeana
CIP ICT PSP Workshop, Luxembourg, 30th of January 2013 - Ghislain SILLAUME, CVCE

2. The Project
Advanced Search Services and Enhanced Technological
Solutions for the European Digital Library
Birth Date April 1ST 2010 Duration 2 years
Co-funded by CIP Coordinator
Partners 24, including institutions from 10 different
European contries and Japan, active in the
field of cultural heritage and digital libraries
Main Goal Improve the accessibility
and usability of

3. The Consortium
Cultural Heritage & Technology Experts together

4. THE SERVICES
ENRICHMENT INDEXING RETRIEVAL & RANKING
Inhomogeneities Algorithms for
reduction and better search
metadata results
enrichment
BROWSING & CHARACTERISATION COMMUNITY
Improved GUI & Supporting
semantic browsing management of
of multimedia user generated
content content
DIGITAL PRESERVATION HACKATHON
Risk evaluation & Encouraging coders
planning for long-term to make use of
access & usability of ASSETS API
contents

5. THE PORTAL
Design Improvement
Presentation of Search Results & Preview
Playing Multimedia Content
User Interfaces for the ASSETS Services

6. Best practices for content provision
A report
dedicated to
the cultural
Heritage
community for
further
comments and
updates
(on request)

7. Benefits for the CVCE
Use of the CVCE content for testing the development of new functionalities for
Europeana (e.g. searching images by similarity, automatic summarisation of videos).
Concrete and challenging experience in the management of a European project
(WP lead and participation in the board of the project).
Good connexion with the Europeana Office and Europeana Network (Co-leading of
the UGC task force, invitation to participate to some experts meetings)
Reputation of the CVCE within the partners of the consortium and representatives
of European Commission (organisation of the final event in Luxembourg).

8. Results for the CVCE
Good overview and know-how about ASSETS and Europeana services (API),
opportunity to reuse them in the next future.
Enhanced know-how about the way a European project works (participation to the
negotiation of the meeting, participation to the meetings of the board, administrative
and contractual work (e.g. NDA), follow-up of an amendment of the DoW,
management of issues, organization of workshops, plenary meeting and dissemination
event…
Contribution to the external funding.

9. Thanks for your kind attention
Find also more about ASSETS by testing some of our services on
Europeana , Europeana Thoughlab or by watching them in this video.
A video of ASSETS final event is available here.

10. Thanks for your kind attention
Find also more about ASSETS by testing some of our services on
Europeana , Europeana Thoughlab or by watching them in this video.
A video of ASSETS final event is available here.