First Learning Layers Developer Camp at RWTH Aachen University

The idea of organizing developer camps comes from the ROLE project. The main goal is to facilitate community building among the project internal developers as well as with external developers from university and the open source movement. In ROLE we had a couple of developer camps during the project and the most visible outcome was the ROLE SDK which is now available as open source software. In Learning Layers we are starting the process with a developer camp in Aachen. We are using the premises of RWTH Aachen's computer science department and invite students from the university but also other developers to join the core group of Learning Layers developers coming from Graz, Helsinki, Karlsruhe and Aachen.
The developer camp 2013 is organized by ACIS team members István Koren and Petru Nicolaescu. Petru has already experiences organizing the i5 developer days as a research student a couple of years ago. The both created a couple of news items and a poster to make the event most visible within the university and the local developer community. For sure, I support this by giving a number of links here:

• Developer Camp news items on the website of our chair
• Developer Camp news item on the website of the project
• Developer Camp news item on the website of RWTH computer science department
• Registration

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Winter School Multimedia Processing and Applications (WMPA'14)

 

Call for Participation - REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN

1st Winter School on Multimedia Processing and Applications (WMPA 2014)

Dublin, Ireland, January 6-8, 2014, Co-located with the MMM 2014 Conference

(http://mmm2014.org/)

WMPA 2014 school's web page: http://winterschool.mediamixer.eu/

WMPA 2014 aims at offering Masters and PhD students and junior researchers
from all over the world training on the latest technological developments in
the area of multimedia processing (media analysis, media annotation, media
rights management) and of emerging multimedia applications (in the Sensor
Web, audiovisual archives, TV broadcasting, digital preservation and
e-learning domains).

The school will combine delivering in-depth lectures with giving to its
participants the possibility for gaining hands-on experience on the use of
new multimedia processing techniques (e.g. media fragment annotation and
re-use technologies), and on the effectiveness, privacy etc. issues that may
arise. The latest R&D in EU funded projects and latest insights from experts
in the industry domains which stand to benefit from these new technologies
will help students to appreciate the state of the art and future chances for
industry adoption. The school will also support the close interaction
between the students and all participants of the MMM'14 conference; among
other possibilities, all school's students will have the chance to bring a
poster describing their current research work and present it in a joint
winter school – MMM'14 poster session.

School's topics include:

TOPICS
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- Multimedia analysis
- Multimedia annotation
- Semantic multimedia
- Sensor Web
- Digital rights management
- Multimedia preservation
- Audiovisual archive applications
- TV industry applications
- E-learning video applications

SPEAKERS
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- Dr. Sandra Collins, Digital Repository of Ireland, Ireland
- Ms. Brid Dooley, RTE Archives, Ireland
- Prof. Roberto Garcia, Universitat de Lleida, Spain
- Ms. Bettina Heidkamp-Tchegloff, Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, Germany
- Prof. Benoit Huet, Eurecom, France
- Dr. Mitja Jermol, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia
- Dr. Vasileios Mezaris, Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- Dr. Claudia Niederee, Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany
- Dr. Lyndon Nixon, STI International, Austria
- Prof. Noel O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland
- Prof. Tinne Tuytelaars, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium

VENUE
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The winter school will take place in Dublin, Ireland, January 6 to 8, 2014.
It will be co-located and closely connected with the 20th anniversary
edition of the International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling 2014 (MMM
2014). Both WMPA'14 and MMM'14 will be held at the Guinness Storehouse,
Ireland's most popular tourist attraction, located in the heart of Dublin,
Ireland.

For further information on WMPA'14 please visit:
http://winterschool.mediamixer.eu/

REGISTRATION
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Registration for the WMPA 2014 winter school is now open! Besides
stand-alone WMPA registration, there are very attractive joint WMPA+MMM 2014
registration options, giving you access to a week-long series of events
where the latest advances in multimedia processing and applications will be
presented.

All registrations for the winter school will be handled via the MMM 2014
registration webpage. Please register for WMPA'14 at:
http://mmm2014.org/registration/

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ACIS Presentation - Personal Clouds for Learning

My colleague Dejan Kovachev gave this lecture "Personal Clouds for Learning" at the JTEL Summer School 2013. The lecture for PhD students in technology enhanced learning combines pedagogies, personal knowledge management and cloud computing in a new way. Some case studies illustrate the application of the approach, e.g. for micro-learning and semantic video annotation.

13 jtel-kovachev klamma-final from Dejan Kovachev

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ACIS Workshop - Semantic Video Annotation for Informal Learning

Petru, Milos, Michael and me gave a workshop on a semantic video annotation approach for informal learning. We are working on this in the Learning Layers project. In this workshop we explored the different interfaces we have designed and implemented for the use case of semantic video annotation. We have Web-based, widget-Based, distributed and mobile interfaces. After some tasks with the interfaces we explored further together with the workshop participants how semantic video annotation can unlock peer production and support scaffolding in informal learning based on real user stories collected in the construction industry within the Layers project. The slides are available from slideshare and Petru prepared a web page, where you can find access to all the prototypes and the workshop materials. We will continue the quest for semantic video annotation using our Requirements Bazaar, a system for social requirements engineering, which has been recently accepted as a demo for the IEEE Requirements Engineering 2013 conference.

Prototyping Apps for Informal Learning: A Semantic Video Annotation Scenario from Nicolaescu Petru

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