Scientific Projects

The objective of the project Glocalisation is to support one of the promising segments of the Hungarian content industry, the production and "glocalisation" of multimedia-based computer training materials. Glocalisation is a nickname for localising foreign courseware and globalising that is adapting to foreign language environment Hungarian language courseware. In the interest of realizing this objective we developed a SCORM compatible glocalisation system in the framework of the project. The system was tested through a pilot training program.

HEKTÁR: Applying open digital library recommandations to Hungarian electronic libraries.

DSD opened the Hungarian Office of the World Wide Web Consortium on 1 September 2002.

W3C was founded in October 1994 to lead the World Wide Web to its full potential by developing common protocols that promote its evolution and ensure its interoperability. W3C has more than 400 Member organizations from around the world and has earned international recognition for its contributions to the growth of the Web.

New Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are present in all areas of society and public administration.

Nowadays, the relations between citizens and public administration are characterised by the increasing use of electronic procedures. In this context, citizens demand modernisation of electoral procedures in order to increase the efficiency and transparency of elections.

Private organisations like large companies, trade unions, sports clubs and associations have electoral processes to elect their governing bodies.

Introduction

The central objective of the CORES project is to encourage the sharing of metadata semantics. CORES will address the need to reach consensus on a data model for declaring semantics of metadata terms in a machine-readable way. Consensus on the ground-rules for declaring standard definitions of terms, as well as local usage and adaptations, will enable the diversity of existing standards to "play together" in an integrated, machine-understandable Semantic Web environment.

The GeneSyS (Generic Systems Supervision) mission statement is:

To enhance distributed systems and applications with a generic and standardised supervision solution and nurture its practical implementation and multi-sector exploitation as a key enabler for the competitiveness of European research and industry.

The top-level objectives of the GeneSyS project are:

Introduction

VoiceXML is a standardisation effort for telephony based IVR (interactive voice repsonse) applications, such as voice mailboxes, ticket reservation, car sharing, chat or payment services, etc.

PublicVoiceXML is both the name of a software package and the name of a trial project with European community radios, who will be evaluating VoiceXML technology through their umbrella organisation AMARC.

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StreamOnTheFly is about offering a personalised community radio program with collaborative filtering agents and bandwidth sensitive streaming.

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EUTIST-AMI, funded by European Union, is constituted by 13 application projects that are testing the benefits and the potential of agent and middleware technologies applied in real industrial environments. To sustain competition and face the global market challenge, the power of these technologies must be harnessed.

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The DELOS Network of Excellence on Digital Libraries is an initiative funded by the European Commission's Information Society Technologies 5th Framework Programme (IST-FP5). Its objectives are