GLOCAL

The key idea underlying GLOCAL is to use events as the primary means to organize and index media, e.g., photos, videos, journal articles. Instead of starting from media and seeing, a posteriori, how we can meaningfully understand their contents (e.g., by tagging them), we organize a priori our data and knowledge in terms of events and use media to populate them, thus providing their experiential dimension. Events provide the common framework inside which the local experience-driven contextual information can be not only coded, but also shared and reduced to a common denominator. Events have both a local and a global dimension. The local dimension enables the mapping of tags (conceptualizations) to media (personal experiences), while the global dimension enables the sharing of event descriptions (thus enabling social sharing and networking of events, media, and tags) but also of event structures across similar events, thus providing a common way to index media (social sharing and networking of event structures). In turn, the networking of events and event structures enables the creation of networked communities inside which common (global) descriptions of the world can be built and continuously enriched by the continuous flow of individual (local) descriptions. CERTH leads the Multimedia Experience Work Package of Glocal, which focuses on the analysis of multimedia and events in odrer to enable event-based multimedia indexing.

Consortium

Universita degli Studi di Trento (UNITN)
Intelligent Software Components S.A. (ISOCO)
ALINARI
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas (CERTH)
Yahoo Iberia SL
Agence France Presse (AFP)
Deutsche Forschungszentrum fur Kunstliche Intelligenz GmbH (DFKI)
EXALEAD
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Universitat Hannover (LUH)
Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA)