NCP meeting Jan 27-28, 2003, Brussels Colette Maloney Interfaces, Knowledge and Content technologies, Applications & Information Market DG INFSO Technology-enhanced Learning Access to Cultural Heritage Scope & focus in 2003

Technology-enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage Technology-enhanced Learning and Access to Cultural Heritage Objective: To develop advanced systems and services that help improve access to Europe‘s knowledge and educational resources (including cultural and scientific collections) and generate new forms of cultural and learning experiences

Outline Part 1. Technology-enhanced Learning Part 2. Access to Cultural Heritage

 Part 1 Technology-enhanced Learning

Focus - integrating ICT in education and training environments and processes  Technologies: Tools for learning object production; repositories of reusable learning objects, assembly of personalised courses, metadata Platforms supporting the use of virtual and remote labs Computer Supported Collaborative Learning environments  Supporting innovation in learning through: New organisational scenarios for universities & schools New experimental delivery systems for Life-long Learning New pedagogical approaches Underpinned by open platforms, systems and tools Technology-enhanced Learning IST

Improving the efficiency and cost-effectiveness of learning, for individuals and organisations, independent of time, place and pace, through the development of open systems and services in support of ubiquitous, experiential and contextualised learning and virtual collaborative learning communities. Work combines advanced cognitive and knowledge-based approaches with new media, including virtual and augmented reality, virtual presence and simulation, takes account of technological, pedagogical as well as organisational aspects, and aims at demonstrating next-generation learning solutions in sizeable field experiments. Technology-enhanced Learning in Workprogramme

Principle Intrinsic links of - pedagogical - technological - organisational aspects Target Groups Higher education ……. Organisational Pedagogical Technical Technology-enhanced Learning Focus on the learning process and where we have the most impact

Approach Collaborative Learning Virtual Communities Collaborative Learning Virtual Communities Ubiquitous Access Knowledge Creation, Management... Knowledge Creation, Management... Learning Resources INDIVIDUALS ORGANISATIONS Technology-enhanced Learning

Research foci  Leading edge technology (eg broadband, mobile, GRIDs, ubiquitous computing) to be applied according to insights from pedagogical research  Interoperability of technology components for new architectural models using commodity products  Knowledge modelling, representation and visualisation for learning - creating interoperable and widely accessible knowledge pools  Computer Supported Collaborative Learning - flexible communities of practice Technology-enhanced Learning

 Improve quality and learning-effectiveness  Reflect the nature of learning as a social process (collaboration, interaction, tacit knowledge)  Support learners to construct their own knowledge according to their learning needs  Link organisations objectives and learning goals of individuals  New pedagogical approaches that ‘blend’ new and old ways of learning Challenges Technology-enhanced Learning

 Part 2 Access to Cultural Heritage

Emergence of large-scale, inclusive cultural landscapes where Europe’s digital heritage is globally visible, interacts intelligently with users, and persists over time Prevent loss and restore access to Europe’s essential cultural and scientific resources that are in obsolete formats or are too rare or fragile for regular physical access Objectives for 2010

Access to Cultural Heritage  Measurable impact:  European wide approach to deposit new digital content within 10 years  Reduce by 50% the cost of digitization within 5 years  Assured protection from loss of digital resources within 10 years

Advanced digital libraries services, providing high-bandwidth access to distributed and highly interactive repositories of European culture, history and science Focus on shared test-beds and increased cultural- research cooperation Digital library services IPNoESTRP Highly recommended Not recommended

Environments for intelligent heritage and tourism, re-creating and visualising cultural and scientific objects and sites for enhancing user experience in cultural tourism Focus on enhancing user experience Addressing common (not specific) needs of Europe’s museums, monuments, sites, etc., An effective network should include take-up in NoEs and/or “demo” projects under STRP Intelligent heritage and tourism IPNoESTRP Not recommendedHighly recommendedPossible

Advanced tools, platforms and services in support of highly automated digitisation processes and workflows, digital restoration and preservation of film and video material, and digital memory management and exploitation Focus on structuring new research communities around preservation Substantially reduce the cost of digitisation Provide an industrial platform for film and video restoration and preservation Preservation and digitisation IPNoESTRP Highly recommended Not recommended

 Working on topics such as: Middleware and distributed systems Knowledge management and information handling Content authoring Trust and security Internet-based technologies Mobile technologies Multimodal interfaces Language technologies Visualisation and virtual/augmented/mixed reality  Always focusing on integration into systems that can be tested in the real-world and can solve real- world problems Applied research implies …

Where is the research focus?

 Protection and conservation of physical objects, monuments, sites, etc., except where they direct link to digitally enhanced user experiences  Generic technology development without any context or relevance to the problems of Europe’s cultural institutions  Projects addressing a particular object, monument, site, or dealing with dealing with specific thematic collections  Projects trying to cover everything – eLearning, tourism, eCommerce, etc.  Projects lacking strategy/policy impact Out of Scope

 Key messages: No lower threshold on size, just ambition Ambition: tangible significant impact on a wide spectrum of core stakeholders Generate knowledge, and new collaborations Integration for DL: value-chain, existing “national” collections, public-private funding, training, end-user involvement Integration for preservation: public institution-private company, multidisciplinary, demonstration, international cooperation, institutional buy-in, building a research community Should be THE project in the field Integrated projects

 Key messages: Integration for DL: joint training, interactive working, shared use of infrastructure, national programme commitment, create pan- European platform, common approaches, interoperability, open standards, exchange of expertise Integration for intelligent heritage: create pan-European platform, common approaches, interoperability, open standards, demo’s and take-up, develop technology roadmaps Integration for preservation: joint management of knowledge portfolio, staff exchange, common legal structures, long-term objectives, new research opportunities, concentration of resources, common approaches, develop policy roadmaps Integration for digitisation: joint training, includes national funders, Ministerial commitment, create pan-European platform, common approaches, interoperability, open standards, “good” and “best” practice guidelines Networks of excellence

Using the instruments

 Finding a way to extend an existing project  Having lots of “sleeping” partners  Covering the map of Europe with nodes, etc.  A loose group of like minded individuals  Re-submitting a rejected proposal from past/other programmes and asking for 3-times as much funding  Trying to “federate” different groups without any coherence, just because the “Commission wants it”  Making a good small research project look like an IP by tripling everything Ambition is not ….

Further Information  Cultural Heritage in IST   Technology-enhanced Learning in IST    Knowledge technologies:   Human Language technolgies   EC staff in Luxembourg: 