Project description Digital Libraries and Digital PreservationThe vision of the ARCOMEM project is to leverage the Wisdom of the Crowds for content appraisal, selection and preservation, so that archives reflect collective memory and social content perceptionARCOMEM is about memory institutions like archives, museums, and libraries in the age of the Social Web. Memory institutions are more important now than ever: as we face greater economic and environmental challenges we need our understanding of the past to help us navigate to a sustainable future. This is a core function of democracies, but this function faces stiff new challenges in face of the Social Web, and of the radical changes in information creation, communication and citizen involvement that currently characterise our information society (e.g. there are now more social network hits than Google searches). Social media are becoming more and more pervasive in all areas of life. In the UK, for example, it is now not unknown for a government minister to answer a parliamentary question using Twitter, and this material is both ephemeral and highly contextualised, making it increasingly difficult for a political archivist to decide what to preserve.This new world challenges the relevance and power of our memory institutions. To respond to these challenges, ARCOMEM's aim is to:help transform archives into collective memories that are more tightly integrated withtheir community of usersexploit Social Web and the wisdom of crowds to make Web archiving a more selective and meaning-based processTo do this, the project team will provide innovative tools for archivists to help exploit the new media and make our organisational memories richer and more relevant. This will be addressed in three ways:First, it will be demonstrated how social media can help archivists select material for inclusion, providing content appraisal via the social web.Second, it will be shown how social media mining can enrich archives, moving towards structured preservation around semantic categories.Third, reserach will explore social, community and user-based archive creation methods.As results of this activity the outcomes of the ARCOMEM project will include:innovative models and tools for Social Web driven content appraisal and selection, and intelligent content acquisitionnovel methods for Social Web analysis, Web crawling and mining, event and topicdetection and consolidation, and multimedia content miningreusable components for archive enrichment and contextualizationtwo complementary example applications, the first for media-related Web archives and the second for political archivesa standards-oriented ARCOMEM demonstration systemThe impact of these outcomes will be to a) reduce the risk of losing irreplaceable ephemeral webinformation, b) facilitate cost-efficient and effective archive creation, and c) support the creation of more valuable archives. This has the potential to strengthen our democracies' understanding of the past, in order to better direct our present towards viable and sustainable modes of living, and thus to make a contribution to the future of Europe and beyond. Show the project objective Hide the project objective ARCOMEM is about memory institutions like archives, museums, and libraries in the age of theSocial Web. Memory institutions are more important now than ever: as we face greatereconomic and environmental challenges we need our understanding of the past to help usnavigate to a sustainable future. This is a core function of democracies, but this function facesstiff new challenges in face of the Social Web, and of the radical changes in informationcreation, communication and citizen involvement that currently characterise our informationsociety (e.g. there are now more social network hits than Google searches). Social media arebecoming more and more pervasive in all areas of life. In the UK, for example, it is now notunknown for a government minister to answer a parliamentary question using Twitter, and thismaterial is both ephemeral and highly contextualised, making it increasingly difficult for apolitical archivist to decide what to preserve.This new world challenges the relevance and power of our memory institutions. To answer thesechallenges, ARCOMEM's aim is to:· help transform archives into collective memories that are more tightly integrated withtheir community of users· exploit Social Web and the wisdom of crowds to make Web archiving a more selectiveand meaning-based processTo do this we will provide innovative tools for archivists to help exploit the new media andmake our organisational memories richer and more relevant. We will do this in three ways:· first we will show how social media can help archivists select material for inclusion,providing content appraisal via the social web· second we will show how social media mining can enrich archives, moving towardsstructured preservation around semantic categories· third we will look at social, community and user-based archive creation methodsAs results of this activity the outcomes of the ARCOMEM project will include:· innovative models and tools for Social Web driven content appraisal and selection, andintelligent content acquisition· novel methods for Social Web analysis, Web crawling and mining, event and topicdetection and consolidation, and multimedia content mining· reusable components for archive enrichment and contextualization· two complementary example applications, the first for media-related Web archives andthe second for political archives· a standards-oriented ARCOMEM demonstration systemThe impact of these outcomes will be to a) reduce the risk of losing irreplaceable ephemeral webinformation, b) facilitate cost-efficient and effective archive creation, and c) support the creationof more valuable archives. In this way we hope to strengthen our democracies' understanding ofthe past, in order to better direct our present towards viable and sustainable modes of living, andthus to make a contribution to the future of Europe and beyond. Fields of science social sciencespolitical sciencesgovernment systemsdemocracy Programme(s) FP7-ICT - Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies Topic(s) ICT-2009.4.1 - Digital libraries and digital preservation Call for proposal FP7-ICT-2009-6 See other projects for this call Funding Scheme CP - Collaborative project (generic) Coordinator Contact Wim PETERS Dr Coordinator THE UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD EU contribution € 927 006,00 Address FIRTH COURT WESTERN BANK S10 2TN Sheffield United Kingdom See on map Region Yorkshire and the Humber South Yorkshire Sheffield Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Joanne Watson (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data Participants (11) Sort alphabetically Sort by EU Contribution Expand all Collapse all Parlamentsdirektion Austria EU contribution € 220 656,00 Address Dr. Karl Renner-Ring 1017 Vienna See on map Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Günther Schefbeck (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data SUDWESTRUNDFUNK Germany EU contribution € 302 240,00 Address NECKARSTRASSE 70190 STUTTGART See on map Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Robert FISCHER (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER Germany EU contribution € 786 520,00 Address WELFENGARTEN 1 30167 Hannover See on map Region Niedersachsen Hannover Region Hannover Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Gabriele Herrmann-Krotz (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data DEUTSCHE WELLE Germany EU contribution € 314 586,00 Address KURT SCHUMACHER STRASSE 3 53113 Bonn See on map Region Nordrhein-Westfalen Köln Bonn, Kreisfreie Stadt Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Wilfried Runde (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data YAHOO IBERIA SL Spain EU contribution € 583 232,00 Address CALLE MARIA DE MOLINA 40 QUINTA 28006 MADRID See on map Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Alejandro Jaimes (Dr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data INSTITUT MINES-TELECOM France EU contribution € 606 593,00 Address 19 PLACE MARGUERITE PEREY 91120 Palaiseau See on map Region Ile-de-France Ile-de-France Essonne Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Sophie Berenger (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data ATHINA-EREVNITIKO KENTRO KAINOTOMIAS STIS TECHNOLOGIES TIS PLIROFORIAS, TON EPIKOINONION KAI TIS GNOSIS Greece EU contribution € 559 600,00 Address ARTEMIDOS 6 KAI EPIDAVROU 151 25 Maroussi See on map Region Αττική Aττική Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Kika Kalogeropoulou (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data HELLENIC PARLIAMENT Greece EU contribution € 116 000,00 Address Vassilissis Sofias 11 106 71 Athens See on map Region Αττική Aττική Κεντρικός Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Public bodies (excluding Research Organisations and Secondary or Higher Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Dimitris Koryzis (Mr.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data ATHENS TECHNOLOGY CENTER ANONYMI VIOMICHANIKI EMPORIKI KAI TECHNIKI ETAIREIA EFARMOGON YPSILIS TECHNOLOGIAS Greece EU contribution € 417 150,00 Address RIZAREIOU 10 15233 Athina See on map Region Αττική Aττική Βόρειος Τομέας Αθηνών Activity type Private for-profit entities (excluding Higher or Secondary Education Establishments) Administrative Contact Marylene Garnier (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data STICHTING INTERNET MEMORY FOUNDATION Netherlands EU contribution € 649 640,00 Address KEIZERSGRACHT 62-64 1015 CS AMSTERDAM See on map Activity type Research Organisations Administrative Contact Nathalie PISCHON (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Total cost No data UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON United Kingdom EU contribution € 516 777,00 Address Highfield SO17 1BJ Southampton See on map Region South East (England) Hampshire and Isle of Wight Southampton Activity type Higher or Secondary Education Establishments Administrative Contact Yan Qiao (Ms.) Links Contact the organisation Opens in new window Website Opens in new window Total cost No data