WP1 Video analysis and annotation WP5a Architecture and Interfaces Management WP 9 Fundamental Research Platform Development and Integration Pilot Experiments WP1 Video analysis and annotation WP5a Architecture and Interfaces WP6 Scenarios Platform provision API, format definition 6a  Cultural Heritage WP2 Linking hyper- video to Web content WP5b Backend Component Integration Framework provision Target platform requirements 6b  Environment WP3 Interface and description WP5c Client Variants Browser & Set-top Box 6c  Entertainment This diagram details the dependencies between R&D work packages. It depicts the WPs, the main results produced by each work package and the dependencies of work packages on results Note that in activity group A, the dependencies between WP1, WP2, and WP3 is represented by the double arrow between the enclosing dashed box and the concepts for modelling adaptation and context awareness. This is a common conceptual framework that is developed by WP1,2 and 3 i common and that serves to harmonise the work technically WP4 Contextualisation and personalisation User Requirements, Feedback Exploitation WP7, 8 Dissemination, Exploitation Standardisation

Broadcaster, Content Provider Publisher, Editor Distributer End User 3) Weaving with external Web sources Distributer End User 4) Presentation generation & streaming 6) Browsing, search. retrieval, feedback 1) Video selection 2) Semi-automatic annotation Browser 5) Persona- lisation, Filtering Set-top Box

Evaluation and Demonstration Research Research 1 Research 2 Basic Concepts Refined Concepts Revised Concepts Develop- ment Development 1 Development 2 Pilot 1 Feedback 1 Pilot 2 Final Results Trials Evalutation1 Evaluation 2 Month 6 12 18 24 30 36 42 Milestones Implementation Plan Proof of Concept Evaluation and Demonstration Final Platform Final Results 3

ConnectME Platform Authors, Publishers, Broadcasters Consumers, Content Providers Media Asset Management PC / Browser Content Management Systems Authoring Publishing Search Retrieval Browsing Set-top Box: Video Player ConnectME Services ConnectME Platform Multimedia Weaver Automatic Video Annotation Integration of external Web sources Repository Corporate Environment, External Knowledge, Social Networks Multimedia/ Video Repositories

Corporate Environment annotated video materials Social Networks Interaction Feedback news groups user requests External Knowledge games Historical Context blogs Geograpical Context “myspace.com” Corporate Environment “who-is-who” user generated content “twine.com” “google. maps” “Wikipedia” Web Site Intranet „europe- ana.eu“ „twitter.com“ EPG “flickr” richly annotated video materials ... and more archives Weaving Video in the Social & Semantic Network Videos are woven together by metadata on a fine grained object level in their shells of context: local environment (stable, personal, corporate ... ) external knowledge (reliable, automatically updated ... ) social networks (up-to-date, changing, subjective ..) google maps Links are filtered for the users according their profiles and interests .... EPG

Approach Media Life Cycle Levels of social & semantic Integration Interaction Feedback User context Geographical / historical environment Planning, Marketing Basic multi-media materials, EPG Levels of social & semantic Integration blogs, forum, games user requests, network activity user/company web site, personal profile wikipedia, google maps, personal registers .. background materials, texts, history, pictures title, author, actors ... meta data on frame level (persons, objects...)‏