A Digital Library Infrastructure on Grid Enabled Technology
Abstract:The DILIGENT project is creating an advanced test-bed that will allow virtual e-Science communities to share knowledge and collaborate in a secure, coordinated, dynamic and cost-effective way.
The DILIGENT test-bed will be built by integrating Grid and Digital Library (DL) technologies. Merging of these different technologies will lay the foundations for a next generation e-Science knowledge infrastructure with many different research and industrial applications.
The test-bed will be demonstrated and validated by two complementary real-life application scenarios: one from the environmental e-science domain and one from the cultural heritage domain. The first user community is composed of representatives from leading organisations that operate in the environmental sector; the second consists of scholars, distributed all over the world working together in a three-year project to merge the medical, humanity, social science and communication research areas.
Partners:
GEIE ERCIM
ISTI-CNR
National And Kapodistrian University Of Athens
Eidgenoessische Technische Hochschule Zuerich ETH
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Institute Integrated Publication And Information Systems (IPSI)
Institut für Medizinische Informatik und Technik Tirol, Gmbh UMIT
European Organization for Nuclear Research CERN
Engineering-Ingegnaria Informatica S.P.A.
University of Strathclyde
Fast Search & Transfer ASA
European Space Agency ESA-ESRIN
Scuola Normale Superiore for its Center for the Data Processing of Texts and Images in the Literary Tradition
SOFT Szamitastechnikai KFT
RAI - Radiotelevisione Italiana S.P.A.
Duration:
36 months. 1 September 2004 - 30 November 2007
ERCIM's role:
Project co-ordinator
Total budget:
8 900 000 Euro
Funding Agencies:
European Commission, FP6 IST Programme
Links:
DILIGENT home page: http://diligent.ercim.eu/
Advancing the Multilingual Web
Open Media Web
Abstract:
There is an enormous potential for growth in mobile Web access in Europe: 1.7 billion mobile phone subscribers in the world own a phone capable of browsing the Web. However, only 200 million of those subscribers actually use their browser, and mobile Web access in Europe is lagging use in other world regions.
If the potential for increasing use of mobile Web access can be realized, it will have a significant impact on the success of European research on the Network of the Future by growing demand for high-speed mobile data traffic. Wired Web access was the key driver in widespread uptake of new network technologies (ISDN, ADSL). Mobile Web access can play the same role for new research results in wireless data networks.
MobiWeb2.0 addresses the usability and interoperability issues that are holding back mobile Web access today. It will focus on mobile Web 2.0 applications based on technologies such as Ajax that can significantly increase the usability of mobile Web applications. MobiWeb2.0 builds on 3GWeb, an FP6 project which focused on improving traditional browsing on mobile devices (funded under the "Mobile and wireless systems beyond 3G" Strategic Objective).
The project is led by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), an organization of currently more than 440 members from research and industry headed by the Web's inventor, Tim Berners-Lee.
MobiWeb2.0 is integrated with W3C's Mobile Web Initiative (MWI) which has many European supporters, including Ericsson, France Telecom, Nokia, TIM Italia, Vodafone and Opera. With its center of gravity in Europe, MWI is unique within W3C. MobiWeb2.0 serves to further increase European participation in MWI.
MobiWeb2.0 supports European dissemination activities on W3C's Mobile Web Initiative. Activities include communication activities, training of content providers on "Mobile Web Best Practices" and the development of test suites and mobile-friendly content-production tools for user-generated content.
Partners:
ERCIM/W3C
Duration:
2 years from 1 January 2008 to 31 December 2009
ERCIM's role:
Project co-ordinator
Total budget:
€818,636
Funding Agencies:
European Commission FP7 (Coordination and Support Action)
EC funding: €543.928
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