Call for Take up Actions Joined SubProjects to AXMEDIS Project of the European Commission

-- AXMEDIS is providing a framework which includes technologies, methods and tools to speed up and optimise content production, protection and distribution, for leisure, entertainment and digital content valorisation and exploitation in general for multi-channel distribution, supporting interoperability of content and DRM.
AXMEDIS aims to meet the challenges of digital-content market demand by: (i) reducing costs for content production and management by applying composition, parallel processing, optimisation techniques for content formatting and representation (format) and workflow control; (ii) reducing distribution and aggregation costs in order to increase accessibility with a Peer-to-Peer platform at Business-to-Business level, which can integrate content management systems and workflows; (iii) providing new methods and tools for innovative, flexible and interoperable Digital Rights Management (DRM), including the exploitation of MPEG-21 and overcoming its limitations, and supporting different business and transactions models.
For the technical details regarding AXMEDIS framework specification please visit AXMEDIS web site on which Tutorials, Specification, Use Cases, Test Cases, and reports about the research activity performed and planned are available. See also next AXMEDIS conference http://www.axmedis.org/axmedis2006

The candidate topic areas of this call include the followings application and/or extension of the AXMEDIS framework and tools to support:
> one or more distribution channels in order to make evident interoperability of content and tools with other AXMEDIS distribution channels and tools (mobile devices, PC, STB, portable video player, portable music player, etc.);
> massive and/or coordinated production, aggregation, protection, of cross media content; collaboration among different actors of the production and distribution value chain; collaborations among cultural institutions, etc.;
> production and/or distribution authoring tools and/or players.

Take up projects should aim at developing real solutions (adoption of the AXMEDIS framework and technology in real-life scenarios) by exploiting AXMEDIS technologies. They should start real sustainable activities by taking advantage of the AXMEDIS framework services and derived tools. Maximum funding is about 1-1.1 Meuro, for the whole 3-4 take up actions.

All the necessary information for submitting your proposal is available at the call webpage of the AXMEDIS project http://www.axmedis.org/callfortakeup/call.html,

AXMEDIS project co-ordinator contact details:
Prof. Paolo Nesi, http://www.dsi.unifi.it/nesi/

Call for Take up Actions Joined SubProjects to AXMEDIS Project of the European Commission

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