VALUE-IT Synopsis

Closer alignment and interaction between academia, enterprise and industry as a whole are essential to boost EU socio-economic growth and international competitiveness, especially in innovative fields such as ICT. Within this context, VALUE-IT is aimed at promoting market driven alignment of EU RTD, fostering innovation and accelerating adoption of Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise (STE).

VALUE-IT will:

  • provide a vision of the market potential for intelligent information management solutions based on STE, and of the conditions, means and channels for transforming RTD results into successful products and services;
  • raise awareness among business players about STE potential contribution to their own competitiveness;
  • promote a two-way dialogue between STE suppliers and actual and prospective users, aimed at improving the focus and usefulness of further research and development of innovative STE solutions;
  • contribute to future Community RTD policy in the areas of Semantics for business and Collective and Distributed Intelligence.

Impacts derived from a successful completion of the project will be measured through more European companies offering semantic solutions, and more organisations progressively adopting those technologies.

Main outputs of the VALUE-IT Support Action to be made publicly available at the end of the project comprise:

  • A Directory of some 2.000 STE Supply and Demand players.
  • A Demand driven STE Roadmap oriented to both Demand and Supply players.
  • A 2015 STE RTD Agenda providing the research community with pointers on potentially relevant fields for further market driven RTD projects.
  • A Collection of some 20 Use Cases in STE Application Scenarios.
  • A final VALUE-IT showcase publication oriented to business decision makers, portraying potential benefits derived from up taking STE based tools.

First Year Summary of Activities
One year after the kick-off, Value-it continues advancing. During this time the scope of the project has been refined and the supply side vision has been analysed. Some progress in other areas has been achieved too. For more information access the Annual Report 2008
News

SEMANTIC MEDIA WORKSHOP
Exploring IT for the Media Sector: A Value-IT activity
Thursday 25 February 2010

The Media sector has its own particular trends and requirements of market participants, which in turn creates particular opportunities for IT. In the case of Media, Semantic Technologies not only provides a potential response to these opportunities, but is a disruptive market force in itself. However, as always, it can be a challenge to get business executives and IT suppliers to speak the same language, and opportunities may be lost.
Semantic Technologies not only play a role for the consumer facing part of a Media company, but for its internal processes (such as content management) as well. Therefore, Semantic Technologies for the Enterprise (STEs) can play a part in helping market participants stay competitive and profitable.
STEs utilise core semantic components such as ontologies, taxonomies, RDF, and natural language processing to help IT systems work with greater conceptual and contextual awareness. Furthermore, the more expansive definition of STEs creates a new perspective on a very large market place for internal enterprise applications.
If you are a Media Company, you are invited to participate in a thought provoking, interactive workshop where we explore how STEs are reshaping Media businesses now and in the future. Our goals are:

  • Inspire discussion and networking between IT suppliers, integrators, and managers;
  • Bridge enterprise business requirements and technology capability;
  • Determine demands for STEs for which EC investment could spur new supply;
  • Unveil opportunities now and for the future.

To register for this event,
email: mark.radoff@ovum.com,
fax: 01482 608394 or call: 020 7551 9325
Ovum is conducting this workshop as part of the Value-IT Project, which aims at evaluating the market's understanding and interest of an Semantic Technologies.. This is not a selling strategy for any Technology. Participation is free