Enabling Access to Sound Archives through Integration, Enrichment and Retrieval

WP1. Project WP1. Project Management Management

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Introduction to Workpackage

Responsibilities of coordinator; Web-based collaborative tools, promote its usage by partners Self-assessment & project workplan Ensure quality of activities, deliverables & dissemination Report activities, progress & resource management

Tasks; T 1.1 Consortium Administration T 1.2 Financial Management T 1.3 Quality Assurance T 1.4 Activity Planning and Reporting

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Internal Documents

Inputs and Outputs document Detailed presentation & promotional flyers Working Documents

Ontology design & knowledge managementSystem ArchitectureSoftware ModulesMetadata

Mock-ups of EASAIER user interface EASAIER Calendar Testbeds Code depositories …

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Working Groups Steering Committee

1 representative per partner Project Coordination Team Working Groups

System Architecture Knowledge Managment

Expert User Advisory Board Exploitation Strategy Team

Initial team established

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Meetings Project meetings

Bi-monthly meetings of coordination team, WP leaders, Team managers

Teleconference, email,… Face-to-face when necessary

Bi-monthly status updates to the Commission Management meetings

Involves Steering committee Atleast twice a year

Technical meetings Physical presence required Every six months Align with Management meetings

+ WP Coordination meetings, researcher exchanges,…

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Type of deliverable: R = Report P = Prototype D = Demonstrator O = Other

Deliverables- Part 1# Title Month Type Level

D8.1 Public website and promotional brochure 1 D PU

D1.1 Quality assurance protocols & policies 3 R CO

D3.1 Retrieval system functionality & specifications 6 R RE

D5.1 Prototype of looping and marking modules 9 R PU

D7.1 initial user requirements & evaluation procedures 9 R PU

D1.2 management, financial & activity reports 12 R CO

D4.1 Prototype segmentation, separation & speaker/instrument identification system

14 P PU

D3.2 Prototype speech, music retrieval systems w/ vocal query interface 20 P PU

D1.3 management, financial & activity reports 24 R CO

D2.1 metadata management infrastructure & ontology language for media objects

24 R PU

Dissemination level: PU = Public RE = Restricted group specified by consortium+

Commission. CO = Confidential, for consortium + Commission.

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Type of deliverable: R = Report P = Prototype D = Demonstrator O = Other

Deliverables- Part 2

Dissemination level: PU = Public RE = Restricted group specified by consortium+

Commission. CO = Confidential, for consortium + Commission.

# Deliverable title Month Type Level

D3.3 Prototype on cross-media retrieval system 26 P PU

D4.2 Prototype transcription system 27 P PU

D5.2 Time stretching modules w/ synchronized multimedia prototype 27 P PU

D8.2 Demonstator of deployed access tools 27 D RE

D4.3 Final report on sound object representations 30 R PU

D5.3 Final Enriched Access Tools report, with sound enhancement 30 R PU

D6.1 Aligned cross- and multi-media interface report 30 R PU

D7.2 Report on formal evaluations and deployment 30 R PU

D8.3 Final Plan for Dissemination and Use of Knowledge 30 R CO

D1.4 Final Public Report 30 R PU

D1.5 Mandatory Final management, financial and activity reports 30 R CO

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WP1 Deliverables & Milestones

Deliverables 1.1 Quality assurance protocols and policies (M3) 1.2 Management, financial and activity reports (M12)

1.3 Management, financial and activity reports (M24)

1.4 Final Public Report (M30)

1.5 Final management, financial and activity reports (M30)

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WP1 MilestonesStatus reports & Co-ordination meetings1.1 Private website deployed (M1) 1.2 Basic development tools; user groups; content databases; first scientific

achievements; tentative dissemination & use plan; self-assessment & workplan specification (M6)

1.3 Disseminate scientific developments; revised user-feedback methodology & workplan, software progress update (M12)

1.4 Internal assessments; first prototype components available; Evaluation procedure specification and integration report (M18)

1.5 Final prototype available, initial business plan; Initial evaluation results, revision requests & deployment procedure (M24)

1.6 Final public & private reports issued, project ends (M30)

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D1.1 Quality Assurance

1.Organization Management & administrative structure Committees, teams, participants & partners Internal reviewers Advisory boards

2.Documentation Processing tools & templates Intranet & repositories

3.Communication Mailing lists, phone conferences, publication

4.Deliverables Definition, quality criteria, reviewing Development, submission & approval Issues & corrective actions

5.Periodic reports & project meetings Reports, financial reporting, meetings

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D1.2 Management, Financial & Activity Reports

Executive summary Periodic management report

Justification of major cost items Form c financial statement per activity

Periodic activity report Project objectives and major achievements Workpackage progress of the period Consortium management Plan for using and disseminating knowledge

Form C -financials

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Project Schedule13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30

WP1 Management T 1.1 Consortium administrationT 1.2 Financial management T 1.3 Quality AssuranceT 1.4 Activity planning and reporting D1.3

WP2 Media Semantics & OntologiesT 2.2 Ontology and semantics for media object representation T 2.3 Ontology management environment D2.1

WP3 Retrieval SystemsT 3.1 Music retrieval T 3.2 Speech retrievalT 3.3 Cross-media retrieval D3.3

T 3.4 Vocal query interface.WP4 Sound Object RepresentationT 4.1 Audio stream segmentation T 4.2 Sound source separationT 4.3 Sound object identification D4.1 D4.3

T 4.4 Transcription D4.2

WP5 Enriched Access ToolsT 5.1 Looping and markingT 5.2 Time-scale / pitch-scale modificationT 5.3 Multimedia alignment and enrichment D5.2

T 5.4 Sound enhancement and noise reduction D5.3

WP6 Intelligent InterfacesT 6.1 Operational interface designT 6.2 Cognitive interfaceT 6.3 Cross & multi-media interface D6.1

WP7 Evaluation & BenchmarkingT 7.1 Evaluation methodology and metricsT 7.2 Demonstrator prototypes and testbeds T 7.3 Testing, validation and feedback assessment D7.3

WP8 Dissemination & ExploitationT 8.1 Deployment D8.2

T 8.2 DisseminationT 8.3 Exploitation

D8.3

D1.4,5

D3.2

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Workpackage Progress

Deliverables and Milestones complete 6 Deliverables so far (2 from WP1)

No serious issues; financial, technical, or otherwise More than 10 demonstrable technologies presented.

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Upcoming Work Plan – project roadmap Months 1-6 Design & Specification

Function specifications mock-ups, use-case scenarios testbeds

Months 7-12 Algorithm development proof-of-concept software infrastructure

Months 13-18 Building the archiver delivering feature extractors metadata schema support

Months 19-24 Integration System testing Interface refinement

Months 25-30 Deployment On-site software installation refinement