Objective
Museums On Line intends to become a leading company in the licensing business of high quality electronic images. Therefore, it is developing with Internet Technology a Multimedia European Network - MENHIR. First, it will increase the number of valuable high quality image archives (digitisation, indexing, registration and identification for the protection of high quality images). Second, it will set up business partnerships for efficient marketing of these archives through diversified products in different sectors.
Museums On Line basic activity is the creation of high quality image databases for image right holders. It will promote and market these images according to the needs of each different sector. The publishing sector being the main target, MENHIR partners will assist publishing companies, either traditional publishing houses or multimedia producers (DVB and TV products, CD-ROMS, CD-Is, Laserdiscs, etc.), advertisers and other companies, to locate and acquire content and educational material in these archives through Museum On Line's 'TelePublishing service'. Then, it will address the growing market of electronic distribution of contents through increasing number of channels.
After a nine month period of development and installation of MENHIR in eight European countries, the protected high quality images will be promoted and marketed through the following services:
- Free access service to vignettes.
- Pay per view service to display the images.
- Licensing or 'TelePublishing service' to sell the images.
and, in partnership with key players of the :
- Education sector, a 'TeleEducation service'
- Cultural sector, a 'TeleResearch service'
- Consumer market sector, a 'TeleMuseum service' and a 'Teleshopping service'.
In addition to these services developed using the same archives, the project will provide:
- a full software and hardware package to digitise, identify and market digital images on the Web, which is compliant with the ISO International Standards and with the rules on the Intellectual Property Rights - IPR harmonised at the European level,
- at least 230,000 high quality images in eighteen months, and a significant volume of copyright sales.
To achieve the above plan, Museums On Line as the promoter of the project has built a Consortium gathering museums and photo archives/agencies as providers of digital contents and publishers as users of those contents. In addition, collective rights societies will act as legal advisers and developers will build the system in subcontractorship.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques.
- social sciencesmedia and communicationsgraphic design
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencessoftware
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesinternet
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesdatabases
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