Knowledge-based Open Publication Model for Intelligent Media Service TELEMATICS APPLICATIONS PROGRAMME Project N° IE-8038

The Hawk project piloted an open knowledge-based publishing model that enables publishers to better exploit the information they hold The model centres around a future-proof knowledge base, which contains explicitly modelled, highly structured and semantically interconnected publication content.  The concepts and facts stored in that knowledge base serve both as an access structure to the text and multimedia material and as a source of information in its own right. Using intelligent presentation techniques, they can be presented to the reader automatically and on demand in graphical form, e.g. as a map or diagram. This allows publishers to easily customise publications to target groups with specific interests or requirements for the presentation, like elderly or handicapped readers and makes the publication content independent of different output media and technologies and, to some degree, also language independent. It further allows the production of publications that the readers themselves can tailor to their personal information demands. The model was be implemented using a generic toolkit approach which integrated widely-used, standard software with innovative tools to support the specific needs of individual publishers for the construction as well as the exploitation of publication knowledge bases. The main goals of the Hawk project are: to demonstrate the benefits of an open knowledge-based publication process using an application framework approach based on open distribution processing standards to validate and verify the feasibility of the generic model and the effectiveness and efficiency of the proposed production processes; this includes close co-operation with well-defined user groups and the application of the developed business tools for publishers to develop new media services, based on Java and CORBA, together with two major European publishers to validate and verify the model through specific instances to disseminate to European non-fiction publishers the results and benefits of using this new approach and to plan the exploitation of the publishing model and its tools in order to implement advanced services in the new media market, giving European publishers a business advantage in the global marketplace.

Participants	Country		Contact
Grupo Anaya S.A. (coordinator)	E		Isabel Romero iromero(at)anaya.es
Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH	D		Jörg Boy j.boy(at)klett.de
GMD - Forschungszentrum Informationstechnik GmbH	D		Lothar Rostek rostek(at)darmstadt.gmd.de
Pira International	GB		Andrew Oldfield oldfield(at)pira.co.uk
Intelligent Views GmbH	D		Thomas Kamps
Laser Scan Ltd	GB		Michael Jackson mike(at)lsl.co.uk
Deutsche Telekom Berkom GmbH	D		Eleutherios Athanassiou
HyperStudio AG	CH		Schaub Mischa mischa(at)hyper.fhbb.ch