European Commission DG Information Society Info day Brussels, 2 June 2005 Joint research activities and reference architecture. SO “Collaborative Working Environments” 6th EU Framework Programme for Research Olavi Luotonen IST Programme

European Commission DG Information Society Index Joint Research Activities Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work

European Commission DG Information Society Joint Research Activities To promote joint research activities with national programmes, To define future research agendas, To identify emerging topics and research groups world wide.

European Commission DG Information Society ERA Activities Communities -> EUArticle 169 EUREKAArticle 171 Private-Public Partnerships (PPP) National programmes Regional funds Full impact by integration of activities also outside this Strategic Objective Example: family of ERA communities - technological and social innovation to catalyse human-centric systemic innovation Brainbridges - ERA pilot for Collaborative work technologies. Experience and Application Research (ISTAG), cf Living Labs

European Commission DG Information Society family of communities Collaborate, Create & - Empowering, Person-centric New Working Environments Linking people in 25 EU Member States & beyond - First elected chairs & EC facilitators Chair : Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT (DE) EC : Isidro Laso Chair : Hans Schaffers, Telematica Inst. (NL) EC : Michael Ziegler Chair : Anne Jubert, CRSA (FR) EC : Paul Hearn ‘horizontal’ technology themes & SEEM ‘vertical’ challenging verification environments Chair : Nuria De Lama, Atos Origin (ES) EC facilitator : John Nolan Chair : Roberto Santoro, ESoCE NET (IT) EC facilitator : Teresa De Martino Chair : Flavio Bonfatti, Univ. Modena (IT) EC : Oluf Nielsen Well-being Chair : Niilo Saranummi, VTT (FI) EC facilitator : Olavi Luotonen Chair : Timo Saari, CKIR, HIIT (FI) EC facilitator : Leonie Schaefer Chair : Kulwant Pawar, Univ. Nottingham (UK) EC facilitator : Florent Frederix Special Interest Group Chair : Seija Kulkki, CKIR (FI), EC facilitator : Bror Salmelin Special Interest Group Chair : Mats Eriksson, CDT (SE), EC facilitator : Olavi Luotonen

European Commission DG Information Society Research groups world-wide coordination activities To identify emerging topics and research groups world wide. Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work.

European Commission DG Information Society Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work Objective: To achieve internationally agreed reference architecture for collaborative work (guidelines), including core components providing seamless collaboration. Through Collaboration with international research and standardization activities. Build on international RTD activities in particular USA, Canada, Korea and japan

European Commission DG Information Society A common reference architecture which enables the development of reusable and interoperable service and application components for collaboration at work. It should define all the elements necessary to achieve interoperation among collaborative tools, including: functions, protocols, interfaces, … It would be implemented via the “upper layer” middleware (layer 1 of the SO) which will facilitate the development of interoperable tools Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work - Concept

European Commission DG Information Society Work on Reference Architecture should be also linked to international standardisation activities, including W3C and IETF. It should take into account existing recommendations W3C: SOA SOA (XML, SOAP, ….), Semantic Web, Device indepence, multimodality, … IETF: Multimedia architecture (RTP, SIP, SDP, …), LDAP,.. Others Incorporating emerging paradigms P2P, syndicated Blogs, Wikis, communities,.. Generic Reference Architecture for Collaborative Work - Standardization activities