Our work programme is iterative and organised in two distinct phases in order to allow quality assessment of project results and – if necessary – retuning of activity. Evaluation will be performed both through scientific experiments and in operational conditions. Both phases are organised in a cycle of requirements analysis, design, implementation and evaluation. Evaluation for the first phase will constitute the basis for design in the second phase.

The first phase will last 28 months including evaluation. During the second phase the output of the evaluation will be used to design and implement the final set of technologies. The work proposed here carries a high complexity because it involves integration and development of a number of cutting-edge and emerging technologies within Knowledge Management, Information Extraction, Semantic Web, Machine Learning, Image Understanding and Interaction Design. The success of this project is expected to have a tremendous economic impact. The consortium will follow industrial best practices to control and minimise the risk. This will be accomplished by creating and evolving a stable and tested version of tools. In some case, these tools will be worked out starting from already existent prototypes, also used during the first phase to support requirements elicitation. As our research progresses, these initial tools will be augmented to assure that our effort is appropriately balanced between the “completed” and the “active”.