Cocosda multimodal Nick Campbell ATR, Japan
“facilitation” Facilitating collaboration –bringing existing work together Taking initiatives to provide –links & metadata Encouraging openness –very small changes may be necessary to make software/tools/data etc., much more widely useful
Cocosda topics Collection Archiving Distribution Annotation Search Metadata Evaluation Coordination
Collection Facilitating & informing –Collection paradigms –Collection setups –Collection resources –Collection techniques –etc.,
Archiving Pointers to existing corpora Links to metadata Metadata wikis ‘archaeology’
Distribution Pre-packaging / pre-competitive / neutral Central (neutral) repository for links encouraging openness/sharing
Annotation Levels of metadata Who is doing what? Can we translate between them? Are meta-metadata levels required?
Search Initial links to top-level sites Software (SWISH-E) for searching metadata and transcriptions Video-based search? There is work to be done here!
Metadata Facilitating search –Across sites / methodologies / theories Groups provide ‘internal’ metadata –Only cocosda can provide ‘global’ links Suggesting/requesting additional levels
Evaluation A central (neutral) store for descriptors A validation wiki? A centre for information/ progress updates
Cocosda coordination Facilitating collaboration –software sharing? –common resources? –inter-group info? Encouraging openness Providing information (& facilities?)
standards Encouraging common interfaces/metadata Encouraging open software/tools Providing central (neutral) resources Providing regular information
Multimodal? Speech & Vision, or Text & A/V ? Facilitating links between the 2 communities – establishing a ‘new’ community towards a common core of interests