The CUbRIK project official presentation

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CUbRIK project is......

a research project financed by the European Union

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….. synonymous of openness Open Innovation

CUbRIK deploys a “white-box” version of a multimedia content & query processing system, by unbundling its functionality and extending its workflow logic to adapt to search-based application requirements

Open Source CUbRIK provides new components and services and is able to

incorporate existing 3rd party services and components, using open standards and an open source software development approach

Open Human CUbRIK extends the search paradigm to networked human computation

by combining crowdsourcing, social networking, trust analysis and gaming with a purpose

Open Business CUbRIK promotes the exploitation of its results through a business

ecosystem by joining forces with multimedia search practitioners, researchers, ICT developers, System integrators, service providers, content owners, individuals and SMEs.

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… a 3D view of multimedia search

Business Platform

Open SourceOpen InnovationOpen Community

Technology Platform

ComponentsCore ServicesPipelines

Social Platform

Human ComputationSocial ComputationCrowdsourcingGames with a purpose

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…a service framework

Makes use of SMILA framework as a start-up service engine for supporting workflow definition and execution

Provides architectural extensions to SMILA for enhanced services:

Extensible content, query and feedback processing search workflow Multimodality, Orchestration of human and machine computation

tasks in all search processes Time and Space Awareness Support for social and human computation Persistency and Caching of content and metadata Support of federated configurations across a distributed architecture Different styles of User Interface for queries and presentation of

search results

Includes tools and methods for application design

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....a software delivery channel

1st CUbRIK platform releaseFirst instance of process execution engine and basic content and query processing pipelines, reusing results from previous research projects, integrating open source components and SMILA framework.

2nd CUbRIK platform releasePersonalization of query processing based on individual role analysis and relevance feedback from individuals and crowds on uncertainty models of content analysis and query processing pipelines. Integration of time and space repositories.

3rd CUbRIK platform releaseScalable and distributed installation capabilities, tools and interfaces to enable application design and development.

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….a sound research initiative

Research community is offered

SoTA advance across multidisciplinary research for social computation, human computation, multimodality and Information Technology

Semantic gap reduction by incorporating rather than emulating human capacities and social interaction

Proposals for new paradigms of science applied to technology for multimedia search

Extension of standards

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….a technology platformDevelopers and technology-savvy users are offered

An agile approach to integrate their own developments with open source components

Knowledge on locating their developments in CUbRIK

Guidance on embedding time and space, human and social extended capabilities in their products

Guidance on how components with different licenses can be integrated into the CUbRIK architecture

Sample pipelines of the arbitrary mix of human and machine tasks to personalise the search processing logic for application requirements

Methods and tools to design multimedia search applications

APIs for developing applications on top of CUbRIK.

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…..a human computation platform

Individuals and the Crowd are offered

a collaboration opportunity to contribute to annotation tasks for disambiguation

an engagement opportunity to play through GWAPs for intelligence and decision making

an evaluation opportunity to provide feedback to refine the platform ability to get more precise results

a business opportunity to start crowdsourcing collaboration with business partners

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….a business opportunity

The multimedia search industry is offered

Extension of their market penetration by deploying an Open Source approach based on the CUbRIK framework

Enrichment of their existing offers through incorporation of CUbRIK features

Usage of the CUbRIK Consortium as a Knowledge source by participating in the CUbRIK Community

Potential new business relationships in the Open Source ecosystem

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...a proof-of-concept

CUbRIK will showcase its technology with Demonstrators of examples of innovation in two domains: (Digital Libraries) History of Europe (Business Processes) CUbRIK search for SMEs,

Technical evaluation in real-world conditions including users will be based on these Demonstrators

Demonstrators will be used to disseminate the benefits of the CUbRIK approach to a wide audience-at-large and to potential adopters

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…. an opportunity for networking

The project portal is a one-stop shop reference window: www.cubrikproject.eu supporting social features by topics

External social channels of the project are: Facebook Twitter LinkedIn YouTube

The CUbRIK Community (to be launched soon at www.cubrikproject.eu/community)

will link external members to Consortium members, hosting networking on ongoing project achievements

will engage members from existing Communities of Interests, groups and organizations

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An 8.9 M€ Large-scale Integrating Project (IP) funded by EU with 6.8 M€ funding in the framework of FP7-ICT Networked Media and Search Systems, 961 person-month effort, 36 months duration from OCT 2011.

Extending the potential of previous research Active collaboration with Social Sensor, I-Search Continuity of research in PHAROS, VITALAS, …

Inspiring vision in FP7 for ICT 2013 and Horizon 2020

Reference for a strategic cluster activity in the NEM agenda

....a flagship project in the EU Agenda

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...a strong partnership

The CUBRIK Consortium is coordinated by Engineering – Ingegneria Informatica and groups 15 world-class actors including content providers and highly-skilled SMEs from 8 different countries in Europe.