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The Multimedia Systems domain aims to provide technologies and tools to allow industry to integrate multimedia end-user systems. The domain covers the development and integration of advanced multimedia technologies into systems, and their demonstration in systems integration pilots targeted at applications in industry, commerce, and the home. Important issues such as standards, media ownership, technology transfer and dissemination are addressed.
The Multimedia Systems domain will interact and coordinate its efforts with other complementary actions taking place in the framework of European RTD programmes and elsewhere. Particularly relevant are the Advanced Communications Technologies and Services (ACTS) programme, working on the future broad band telecommunications infrastructure, the Telematics Applications programme, applying existing multimedia technology to public services such as medicine, transport, education and libraries, and the Info 2000 programme on contents production. Multimedia systems will provide the next generation of multimedia technologies which may be taken up in future phases of the ICT Programmes, particularly in focused clusters such as Integration In Manufacturing, Technologies for Business Processes, and High Performance Computing and Networking, and in Telematics.
A European coordination of national and sectorial special interest groups on multimedia is being set up to provide industrial guidance to the Multimedia Systems domain, involving technology suppliers, creative artists and users. Amongst the tasks assigned to these Special Interest Groups, is the analysis of requirements by user sector, for example publishing, broadcasting, music and movie industries. The Multimedia Systems constituency will be coordinated at the European level with its counterparts in Telecommunications, and Telematics. It will guide collaboration world wide, especially on standards and content remuneration.
R&D areas
Objectives
To develop and integrate technologies to allow the creation, manipulation, display, access and storage of multimedia information (high quality image, text, motion-video animation and high fidelity sound). The work will cover both multimedia software tools and multimedia systems.
Build on existing standards, contributing to creating new standards only where no appropriate industrial standards exist.
Identify new strategies of information provision and presentation satisfying user needs for multimedia solutions.
3.15Multimedia for Electronic Commerce Provide technologies and tools to support the integrated use of multimedia in electronic commerce including: networked kiosks, distributed multimedia data bases, electronic ordering, invoicing and payments technologies, easy to use man machine interfaces adapted to the environment of the user system offering facilities to disabled persons, etc.. Developments in this area need to be coordinated with task 7.13 of domain 7, Technologies for Business Processes.
Objectives
Develop, integrate and apply technologies in view of building an appropriate open environment for distribution, trading and use of digital multimedia objects. Such an environment should enable wide and easy access to and use of digital material thus allowing business on a large scale while, at the same time, providing an appropriate protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs).
The work will be based on the various business models needed in the different application sectors and will focus on developing common rules & standards ensuring world wide interoperability across different users platforms, different media and different application domains.
The work should build on existing projects to ensure convergence of objectives and should cooperate with the coordination mechanisms already in place for this sub-domain. International cooperation is encouraged to secure the widest consensus possible. Users, consumers issues, including privacy protection, should be carefully considered in all facets of the tasks.
Preparatory, support and transfer activities
Objectives
To identify and support the provision of services as accompanying actions to help the uptake of multimedia systems in industrial activities. Services should support identified and quantifiable needs of European organisations or individuals using or producing multimedia systems, multimedia content and/or multimedia applications on a continuing basis. Potential service-providers must plan for, and have a reasonable expectation of achieving, a profitable or self-sustaining commercial basis by the end of the funding period, while recognising that the needs being addressed may be sector- and/or region-specific and are likely to vary over time.
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