X-Media News
X-media is a project funded by the European Community
Sunday, 21 October 2007
Dataset Released For Scalability Testing
X-media projects releases dataset for testing scalability of OWL resource retrieval.
Monday, 17 September 2007
X-Media sponsors Student Scholarship and Volunteer Program
X-Media sponsors Student Scholarship and Volunteer Program at the 2008 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces.
Monday, 30 July 2007
Core Ontology of MultiMedia Released
A first version of the Core Ontology of MultiMedia (COMM) has been released. This ontology is part of the X-Media annotation framework. The ontology is formalized using OWL.
Monday, 3 June 2007
X-Media Sponsored Best Paper Award at ESWC 2007
X-Media sponsored the best paper award at ESWC 2007, the 4th European Semantic Web Conference, 3-7th, June 2007, Innsbruck, Austria.
Monday, 3 June 2007
Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies for Knowledge Management in Large Distributed Organisations
On June 1st, Fabio Ciravegna, X-Media director, gave a Tutorial on Semantic Web Technologies for Knowledge Management in Large Distributed Organisations at the 4th European Semantic Web Conference, in Innsbruck, Austria.
Monday, 23 April 2007
Successful Scientific Board Meeting on 17 April in Athens Greece
The first annual scientific board review of the project was held in Athens, Greece, on the 17th of April. Board members are Prof. Andrew McCallum (U. of Massachusetts at Amherst), Prof. Alan Smeaton (City U. Dublin) and Prof. Guus Schreiber (U. of Amsterdam).
The board started with a general presentation of the aims of the project by the X-Media director, followed by in-depth descriptions of the work done in the different workpackages. A 2 hour demo session complemented the day.
Monday, 23 April 2007
Successful Review for X-Media
The first annual review of X-Media was held in Athens on 19-20 April.
The review was very successful. The reviewers noted that the The project goals are very relevant to the IST programme objectives and that the project proceeds according to plan with high market prospects. Among the main positive points noted by the reviewers were: the level of Involvement of the end-users which was defined as "brilliant".
Friday, 12 January 2007
Knowledge in Multimedia
The workshop on „Knowledge in Multimeda“ at the IST-2006 conference on November 22 gathered about 70 people interested in how the envelope for multimedia understanding could be pushed. The workshop presenters gave a comprehensive picture explaining which dimensions – and correspondingly which research and technology efforts - are relevant in order to understand multimedia data (cf. picture).
The presenters explained how the development of IT drives the need for as well as the power of multimedia understanding. Thereby, cross-media understanding ranked very highly on the wish-list of the presenters and intensive research such as performed in X-media is a pre-requisite to managing the knowledge found in multimedia in the decades to come.
Friday, 12 January 2007
The X-media consortium met for three days in Koblenz at the University of Koblenz
During the three days, an intense internal discussion set the basis for the work for the next months. The pre-review is coming on the following day. M12 will see the finalisation of a number deliverables; the definition of the main methodologies among them.
One of the main outcomes of the meeting was the definition of the new 18 month plan and the finalisation of the vision demonstrators. The vision demonstrators are to be used to drive the development and integration of the X-Media technology and will also be used as showcases for the technology.
Monday, 30 October 2006
Star of the Meeting Award
at X-Media meeting
at X-Media meeting
One of the main outcomes of the meeting was the definition of the vision demonstrators. The vision demonstrators are to be used to foster discussion among the partners on the future X-Media technology and will also be used as showcases for the technology.
The vision demonstrator presented by the Area 1 working group also got the Star of the Meeting Award. The Area 1 VD will focus on two main use
Monday, 30 October 2006
X-Media meeting in Turin
The X-media consortium met for four days in Orbassano, near Turin (photo of Turin) at Centro Ricerche Fiat (photo below).
During the first day, the consortium met four users from Fiat Auto Spa who are providing real world use cases to the project. During the remaining three days, an intense internal discussion set the basis for the work for the next months. The pre-review is just tree months away, and next month the M9 deadline will see the finalisation of a number deliverables; the
Friday, 20 October 2006
X-media will be present at IST Conference 2006.
The networking session on "Knowledge in Multimedia Content" at the IST Conference in Helsinki, Wednesday 22/11, is organized by Yiannis Kompatsiaris from X-Media partner ITI/Certh (Greece). The session will include presenters from further X-media partners including Steffen Staab (University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany), Hans-Peter Schnurr (Ontoprise GmbH, Germany) and Yannis Avrithis (ITI, Greece).
Read its full description at: http://europa.eu.
Tuesday, 26 September 2006
SAMT 2006 sponsorship
X-Media is sponsoring the best paper award at SAMT 2006, the first international conference on Semantics And digital Media Technology (SAMT) to be held in Athens (Greece) on December 6-8.
Thursday, 21 September 2006
Two X-Media principal investigators are invited speakers at ISMIS-2006, Bari, September 2006.
Steffen Staab, University of Koblenz-Landau, gave his talk "Knowledge Lifecycle Management: Getting the Semantics across in X-Media"
Ivan Bratko, Univ. Ljlubljana, talked about "Argument-based Machine Learning"
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