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Challenge 4

4.3 Digital Libraries and Technology enhanced Learning

Carlos Oliveira (Deputy Head of Unit)

DG INFSO E3 – Cultural Heritage and Technology enhanced Learning

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Challenge 4:Digital Libraries and Content

• Harnessing the synergies made possible by linking content, knowledge and learning

– Increase the availability of content and its long term accessibility– More effective technologies for the creation, management and

reuse of content and knowledge– Scenarios for creative use of content, acquisition and

development of knowledge - learning processes

• Key topics:– Digital Libraries– Technology-enhanced Learning– Intelligent Content and Semantics

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Objective ICT2007.4.1:Digital Libraries

& Technology enhanced Learning

The Workprogramme has 2 distinct elements:

Digital Libraries• Medium term:

– a) Large-scale European-wide digital libraries • Long term:

– b) Radically new approaches to digital preservation

Technology-enhanced Learning• Medium term

– c) Responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning

• Long term

– d) Adaptive and intuitive learning systems

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Digital libraries:research objectives

a) Large-scale European-wide digital libraries of cultural and scientific multi-format and multi-source digital objects (medium term)– robust and scalable environments– cost-effective digitisation – innovative services and creative use– semantic-based search facilities and – digital preservation features

assisting communities of practice in the creative use of content in multilingual and multidisciplinary contexts

b)Radically new approaches to preservation of digital content (long term)– high volume; dynamic and volatile digital content (notably web) – keep track of evolving meaning and usage context– safeguarding integrity, authenticity and accessibility over time – models enabling automatic and self-organising approaches to

preservation

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Digital libraries:approach and impact

• Approach: – All funding schemes – but with very different indicative

budgets– Includes concept of centres of competence for

digitisation and preservation, building upon, pooling and upgrading resources in the Member States

– Cross-disciplinary research; empirical evaluation; socio-economic impact

• Impact:– Unlock organisations' and people's ability to access digital

content and to preserve it over time– EU-wide massive digitisation and long term preservation

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Technology-enhanced Learning: research objectives

c) Responsive environments for technology-enhanced learning (Medium term)– accommodate personalisation to respond to specific learning

needs and contexts (mass-individualisation) – are capable of transforming learning outcomes into permanent

knowledge assets – enhance competence, skills and performance– are pedagogically sound

d) Adaptive and intuitive learning systems (Long term)– identify learner's requirements, intelligently monitoring progress, – exploit learning and cognitive abilities letting people learn better,– give purposeful and meaningful advice to both learners and

teacherslearning on your own or collaboratively

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Technology-enhanced Learning: approach and impact

Approach:• Cross-disciplinary (cognitive, organisational, pedagogical,

technological aspects)• Provide a body of evidence as to which approaches are

effective and under which circumstances

Impact:– Faster and more effective learning, acquisition of

knowledge, competences and skills – Unlocking people’s and organisations’ ability to master

knowledge and apply it – Increased knowledge worker productivity, – More efficient organisational learning processes

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Budget and Funding Schemes -instruments

• Total budget for the SO: 102 MEUR• Call 1: 52 MEUR• Call 3: 50 MEUR

• Funding Schemes:• Cooperative Projects (IPs and STREPs)• Networks of Excellence• Coordination Actions/Support Actions

• Indicative funding: • Cooperative projects M€42.5

• minimum of M€20 to IPs; • M€10 to STREPs);

• M€5 for NoEs; • M€2.5 for CSAs

NO pre-allocation of budget between “digital libraries” and “learning”!

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FP7-ICT call 1 results

• 189 Proposals – 12 funded!• Digital Libraries and digital preservation

• 2 IPs, 3 STREPs, 1 CA• Large scale digitisation of printed documents (older

materials and fonts), digital preservation and added value services based on digital content

• Learning • 2 IPs and 4 STREPs• Greater focus on responsive environments and mid-

term goals, than on intuitive systems• Strong continuity with FP6 research (and projects!)

– NoEs have been influential

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FP7-ICT call 1 new projectsTechnology-enhanced Learning (1)

• IP1: Constructivist approach to science learning– Adaptivity, learner as creator, engagement,

guidance (by tutors/teachers)

– Consortium: universities

• IP2: Workplace learning– Embedding learning more seamlessly in work

processes and KM systems; knowledge maturation

– Consortium: universities, industry

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FP7-ICT call 1 new projectsTechnology-enhanced Learning (2)

• STRP 1: Personalisation and adaptivity– developing new tools interfacing with existing

infrastructures and LMS• STRP 2: Theories, methodologies and technologies for

game based learning– Focus on learning science, adaptivity, story telling and

engagement• STRP 3: Adaptivity and guidance

– Using natural language technologies to support learner and teacher

• STRP 4: Innovation and creativity in product development

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FP7-ICT call 1 new projectsDigital libraries (1)

Integrated Project 1:• Data Grid, Federated Digital Libraries, Persistent Data

Archives and Multivalent Architecture– Test-beds: Documents in Memory Institutions and

Governmental Collections, Objects in Industrial Design and Engineering, eScience

– Consortium: universities and research org in EU and US, industry and gov.

Integrated Project 2:• Large scale digitisation of printed older material (scan

+ OCR) with multilingual support– Centre of competence for digitisation– Consortium: national libraries, ICT (scan + OCR specialists)

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FP7-ICT call 1 new projectsDigital libraries (2)

STREP 1:• Web archiving: fidelity, coherence and interpretability,

transforming pure snapshot into living web archive• Consortium: Universities and research, new media archiving

STREP 2:• Explore software agent technologies to automate preservation

processes (self-preserving objects)• Consortium: archives and universities, research, ICT

STREP 3:• Innovative access to digital library content (ability to extend queries

in the context of a specific discipline to alien domains) • Consortium: film news agencies, universities, research

CSA• Coordination action on multilingualism in digital libraries

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Where proposals failed

• Described solutions without defining either the problem or the research and progress that would be made

• Objectives more oriented towards providing a solution for a particular set of users (e.g. training for engineers, the virtual museum or digital library with the collections of a specific organisation) than the objectives and impacts specified in the work-programme

• Failure to justify the choice of the application or test-bed. Our approach is subject neutral – and so it is up to proposers to argue the usefulness of the proposed test-beds (in terms of learning context, potential for replication).

• Tried to create false links between digital libraries and technology-enhanced learning – thinking that greater coverage of the WP is better than clear relevance to one of the research topics

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Where proposals failed

• Over-dimensioned – tried to tackle too much and becoming too diffuse rather than stick to a core problem and focused, measurable objectives

• In digital libraries:• Several proposals having as main objective and outcome to set-up a

digital library or repository hosting the collections of an institution, occasionally with some a digitisation component, but a very limited research component

• Development of solutions for very specific audiences (tracking of stolen works, publishing / simulation of scientific data) without a visible research outcome

• In learning:• Inability to leverage a balance of research in technological and

pedagogical (or cognitive science) disciplines – too often there were technologies looking for a home

• Aim to create LMS or content delivery platforms – not advanced as regards the state of the art, or more oriented towards the objectives of eContentplus

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Contacts and further information

• Next events: Information Days in Luxembourg on 17 and 18 December 2007

• Call 3 publication – closing date 8 April 2008

• INFSO/E3: Cultural Heritage and Technology Enhanced LearningFP6: http://cordis.europa.eu/ist/telearn-digicult/index.html

FP7: http://cordis.europa.eu/fp7/ict/telearn-digicult/contacts_en.htm

Digital libraries and preservation: infso-digicult@ec.europa.eu

Tech. enhaced learning: infso-telearn@ec.europa.eu