EWIMT 2005

aceMedia organised the 2nd European Workshop on the Integration of Knowledge Semantic and Digital Media Technologies, 30 November–1 December, 2005, IEE Savoy Place, London, http://www.acemedia.org/ewimt2005 in collaboration with the Institution of Electrical Engineers.

EWIMT 2005 was attended by over 135 leading experts in multimedia and knowledge technologies, and featured papers and posters of the latest research results in these areas, as well as invited presentations and panel sessions.

Keynote speakers were Professor Ed Delp of Purdue University and Roberto Cencioni of the European Commission. During the event, announcements were made of the new European Commission research funding FP6 Call 6 and the consultation process for the 7th Framework workprogramme.

In parallel, the European Commission (EC) held an Experts Round Table discussion on 30 November 2005 to discuss requirements from research on the 7th Framework European Research (FP7) programme. This meeting was one of many held by the EC to help define the FP7 workprogramme. Several aceMedia partners were invited to this session.

In addition, aceMedia organised an experts meeting on multimedia ontologies on 1 December 2005 at which 24 leading European experts in multimedia ontology development presented their proposals for multimedia harmonisation and standardisation. A call for requirements will be generated arising from this meeting, and collaboration with the W3C Multimedia annotation task force is anticipated. For further information on this initiative, please see http://www.acemedia.org/aceMedia/reference/multimedia_ontology/index.html.

In 2006, EWIMT will be renamed the 3rd International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT 2006) and will be hosted by aceMedia partners in Athens.