Objective
DESIRE will examine how to satisfy research user requirements for better access to research-related information on the WWW. The project will pursue ways of facilitating the search, access, study and retrieval of multimedia resources related to research. It will also develop and validate tools for the creation, quality, cost-recovery and description of information resources and security mechanisms to control access to them. The project will also look into measures for reducing the network load of multimedia information services. Despite legal problems concerning the security of transnational information services, the technologies developed will have unquestionable potential exploitation for information providers and network operators alike.
In the context of a European information network based on the World Wide Web (WWW), DESIRE aims to comprehensively address the areas in which existing services fail to adequately meet the needs of research users. In particular, DESIRE aims to provide:
- a sustainable approach to making searching, finding, browsing, accessing and retrieving multimedia resources as easy as possible
- tools for the creation, maintenance, quality, cost-recovery and description of information resources
- security mechanisms to control access to information resources for reasons of confidentiality or charging
- quality mechanisms to permit the quality of information and information services to be monitored and reported
- performance features to reduce the international bandwidth requirements of access to multimedia information across Europe
Component technologies (caching, indexing methods) have clear possibilities for exploitation by providers of information services and by network operators, although the legal problems of providing secure information services, particularly across national boundaries, will remain. The participating service providers will exploit the technical infrastructure to deliver an information service infrastructure to their customers.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
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Programme(s)
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Multi-annual funding programmes that define the EU’s priorities for research and innovation.
Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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Coordinator
3501 DA Utrecht
Netherlands
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