The FP6 Process

IPPA 5IPPA 5

ISTAG OrientationsWP

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Strategy documents

Internal reflection groups

1/2/2002 1/4/2002 15/7/20026/06/02

IST Call 8

The institutional process: FP, SP, Council + EP

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Spring 2001

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Call Express. of Interest

Call Express. of Interest

Knowledge technologies in IST - FP6

IST aim: Anywhere, anytime natural and enjoyable access to IST services for ALL

Miniaturised, low cost low power

components & µsytems

Natural interactionswith ‘ knowledge ’ 

Pervasive, mobile, wireless, trustful

infrastructures

Knowledge technologies

Knowledge technologies

Interfaces

Applied IST for major societal and economic challenges

Trust &Security

IST for societal challenges

IST for work & business

challenges etc

Generic IST research and technology development

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Intel, Commerce Net, AT&T and EC

Digital trends mean more data and information….

Longer-term Market drivers

need to process multi-platform, heterogeneous information flows

cost-effectively: professional ‘knowledge workers’ spend average

8 hours per week processing external information (2001 U.S. Survey)

need to process information from real-time, real-world sources

(e.g. from sensors, cameras, GIS)

need to integrate better I&K in complex work processes (e.g.

Rolls-Royce design software)

need to exploit better existing data and information resources,

e.g. computer-aided discovery, innovation engineering

need to process multi-platform, heterogeneous information flows

cost-effectively: professional ‘knowledge workers’ spend average

8 hours per week processing external information (2001 U.S. Survey)

need to process information from real-time, real-world sources

(e.g. from sensors, cameras, GIS)

need to integrate better I&K in complex work processes (e.g.

Rolls-Royce design software)

need to exploit better existing data and information resources,

e.g. computer-aided discovery, innovation engineering

Towards a knowledge-based economy?

EU Lisbon Summit calls for k-based economy

Europe is well positioned in content production, linguistic and

cultural diversity ... but risks to lag in I&K processing systems.

More automation, more autonomy is needed at content level

Several areas at stake:

digital interactive media (TV, radio, PDA-based)

I&K services provision (B-Band Web, ‘Web-plus-mobile’, etc.)

e-business, work processes, innovation

e-learning, culture etc.

EU Lisbon Summit calls for k-based economy

Europe is well positioned in content production, linguistic and

cultural diversity ... but risks to lag in I&K processing systems.

More automation, more autonomy is needed at content level

Several areas at stake:

digital interactive media (TV, radio, PDA-based)

I&K services provision (B-Band Web, ‘Web-plus-mobile’, etc.)

e-business, work processes, innovation

e-learning, culture etc.

Roadmap towards Knowledge Technologies

FP5 paradigm: data and information handling FP5 paradigm: data and information handling

F.P.6 paradigm: towards Knowledge HandlingF.P.6 paradigm: towards Knowledge Handling

NLPNLP

Advanced Digital ContentAdvanced Digital Content

Cognitive SystemsCognitive Systems

Semantic WebSemantic Web

Exemplary applications in Culture, Government, Business, Education/Training, etc.

Exemplary applications in Culture, Government, Business, Education/Training, etc.

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FP6 focus

…"Knowledge technologies and digital content: The objective is to provide automated solutions for creating and organising virtual knowledge spaces (e.g. collective memories) so as to stimulate radically new content and media services and applications. Work will address:

• technologies to support the process of acquiring and modelling, representing and visualising, interpreting and sharing knowledge. These functions will be integrated in new semantic-based and context-aware systems including cognitive and agent-based tools.

• extensible knowledge resources and ontologies so as to facilitate service interoperability and enable next-generation Semantic-web applications”.

Extract from FP6 proposed Council Decision 2002-2006

…"Knowledge technologies and digital content: The objective is to provide automated solutions for creating and organising virtual knowledge spaces (e.g. collective memories) so as to stimulate radically new content and media services and applications. Work will address:

• technologies to support the process of acquiring and modelling, representing and visualising, interpreting and sharing knowledge. These functions will be integrated in new semantic-based and context-aware systems including cognitive and agent-based tools.

• extensible knowledge resources and ontologies so as to facilitate service interoperability and enable next-generation Semantic-web applications”.

Extract from FP6 proposed Council Decision 2002-2006

Knowledge is broader and deeper than information. It refers to the human understanding of information, e.g. to compare it, draw consequences for decisions and actions, make connections with other bits of information, get value judgements and comments from other people.

Documents Databases Email Web PeopleOther

Resources

Knowledge discovery Knowledge sharing

Virtual Information and Knowledge Environments& the

“Semantic Layer”

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Machine-Machine

One view of knowledge technologies:Automating communication & collaboration.

Space : distributed information systems

Another view: giving processes more autonomy.

Time: Reasoning systems

Guideline eligibility & monitoring

Guideline eligibility & monitoring

Critical systems control (machines, planes, power plants)

Critical systems control (machines, planes, power plants)

Scientific and technical discovery - data/text mining

Scientific and technical discovery - data/text mining

Adaptive e-business (specialisation / compositional)

Adaptive e-business (specialisation / compositional)

Candidate research topics

Industrialising the knowledge lifecycle, e.g. semantic-based e-business and e-services virtual information & knowledge environments ...

Digital content: Flexible media delivery and user-adaptation e.g. cross-media / network publishing digital asset management ...

Cognitive support systems e.g. reasoning tools cognitive vision ...

Focus on upstream, generic, longer-term RTD, with exemplary applications in business, education, culture and general interest areas

Industrialising the knowledge lifecycle, e.g. semantic-based e-business and e-services virtual information & knowledge environments ...

Digital content: Flexible media delivery and user-adaptation e.g. cross-media / network publishing digital asset management ...

Cognitive support systems e.g. reasoning tools cognitive vision ...

Focus on upstream, generic, longer-term RTD, with exemplary applications in business, education, culture and general interest areas

Who may be involved

KT combines different branches of computer science, media and database technologies, computational linguistics, A.I. and cognitive systems, etc.

growing research at national level e.g. A.K.T. eScience/GRID, IT 2006, Know-Centre, INRIA, FhG, plus many academic centres.

large ICT and software houses, plus highly innovative new knowledge integrator companies.

content & media players, broadcast houses and archives plus sectoral industries and bodies which act as leaders.

fora e.g. W3C-Semantic Web, MPEG, ERCIM, and EU-sponsored e.g. OntoWeb, DELOS, KM Forum.

END USERS: are mainly in the Web, e-services, e-business, scientific & cultural communities.

USA: DARPA, NSF, MIT, IBM, Microsoft clearly engaged.

KT combines different branches of computer science, media and database technologies, computational linguistics, A.I. and cognitive systems, etc.

growing research at national level e.g. A.K.T. eScience/GRID, IT 2006, Know-Centre, INRIA, FhG, plus many academic centres.

large ICT and software houses, plus highly innovative new knowledge integrator companies.

content & media players, broadcast houses and archives plus sectoral industries and bodies which act as leaders.

fora e.g. W3C-Semantic Web, MPEG, ERCIM, and EU-sponsored e.g. OntoWeb, DELOS, KM Forum.

END USERS: are mainly in the Web, e-services, e-business, scientific & cultural communities.

USA: DARPA, NSF, MIT, IBM, Microsoft clearly engaged.

Next step - Expressions of Interest

Through the FP6 Expressions of Interest, Reference I.S.T.:

on Integrated Projects & Networks of Excellence by 7 June 2002 to fp6-eoi2002@cec.eu.int (e-mail only) confidentiality possible (but some non-confidential content...) no individual response - an aggregate analysis input used to help draw up workprogramme set out:

needs, relevance, ambition, scale, integrating effect, excellence, time-scales

STARTING TODAY WITH YOUR IDEAS!!!

Through the FP6 Expressions of Interest, Reference I.S.T.:

on Integrated Projects & Networks of Excellence by 7 June 2002 to fp6-eoi2002@cec.eu.int (e-mail only) confidentiality possible (but some non-confidential content...) no individual response - an aggregate analysis input used to help draw up workprogramme set out:

needs, relevance, ambition, scale, integrating effect, excellence, time-scales

STARTING TODAY WITH YOUR IDEAS!!!

And finally - to answer your first question

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

…Where is the information we have lost in

data?…..

And where is the data we have lost in the Internet?

(an extrapolation of The Rock, by T.S.Eliot)

Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?

Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?

…Where is the information we have lost in

data?…..

And where is the data we have lost in the Internet?

(an extrapolation of The Rock, by T.S.Eliot)

What is the difference between data, information and knowledge?