SCENARIOS IN MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS

4 studies available

Knowledge Web Partners: FU Berlin
Business Partners: Neofonie GmbH
Challenge:
To integrate and accurately classify news articles, dynamic web pages, press releases and feeds into a news service
Solution:
At the moment a semi-automated integration takes place: (1) Template creation using neofonie search:webstract, (2) Automatic processing of the pages and feeds.
Why a semantic solution:
Semantic technology includes ontology mapping which is becoming increasingly important. As more information providers turn to semantic technology, the returns on automatic solutions increase. However to remain leaders in the market support must still be maintained for legacy systems. Integrating semantic technology in current solutions is therefore a must.
Key Business Benefits:
Greater returns on diminishing labour costs. The possibility of concentrating development on new applications instead of on integration.

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Knowledge Web Partners: CERTH
Business Partners: Motorola
Challenge:
The development and maintenance of large multimedia databases is a difficult task due to the challenges of organising, finding, re-using and distributing multimedia content
Solution:
Multimedia is annotated in terms of knowledge extracted from it so that both humans and machines can process large bodies of multimedia more easily
Why a semantic solution:
The Semantic Web offers machine-processable data models for annotating the media and supports semantic search, navigation and reasoning functionalities
Key Business Benefits:
Multimedia production and storage is a growing market, particularly among consumers. However, uptake is stalled by a lack of tools to ease media creation and management. Such tools can reduce costs for producers and encourage uptake of media services

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Knowledge Web Partners: France Télécom R&D
Business Partners: Orange, Wanandoo, Photo publishing actors
Challenge:
To provide photo album and personal data services via portals.
Solution:
Semi-automated aggregation and publication of personal content, digital camera and mobile phones offering today content annotations capabilities (localisation, date..)
Why a semantic solution:
Meta Data extraction and management, content provider mediation are promising areas for semantic portal
Key Business Benefits:
B2C enhanced paying services, partnership with the actors of the photo publishing

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Knowledge Web Partners: Elsevier
Business Partners:
Challenge:
The exploration of entity-relationship-based authoring tools
Solution:
investigation of more sophisticated knowledge models and the development of a platform for scientific discourse that better suits the connected, virtual environment in which science is done today.
Why a semantic solution:
To host our XML, we have been working towards a Web Services architecture, which allows for more distributed development of our online products, and compatibility with outside systems.
Key Business Benefits:
It would be interesting to allow authors to directly create and manipulate entities and relationships to represent the point they are making. These entity-relationship-entity (or entity-property-value) triples could make up the backbone of an argument.
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