Digital convergence between audiovisual media, high-speed networks and smart devices is a reality. Multimedia informatics is a key enabling technology in this process. It helps make media content more directly manageable by computers, in an age where new information stored on paper, film, magnetic and optical media is reckoned to double every three years. What will be the benefits? Digital convergence presents new opportunities for businesses to unlock new markets, and for public bodies to improve the way they work. For example, national newspapers can reach customers through print, online or mobile services. Hospitals will be able to make X-Rays available instantly at the patient’s bedside. Convergence also presents new. | European Research Consortium for Informatics and Mathematics Number 62 July 2005 Special Multimedia Informatics CONTENTS KEYNOTE 3 by Viviane Reding Member of the European Commission responsible for Information Society and Media JOINT ERCIM ACTIONS 4 Jerome Chailloux nominated ERCIM Manager 4 Image and Video Understanding wins the ERCIM Working Group Award 5 Grid@Asia Advanced Grid Research Workshops through European and Asian Co-operation 6 Strategic Workshops organized by ERCIM I NEWS FROM W3C 6 W3C Celebrated Ten Years Leading the Web in Europe 6 Launch of the W3C Mobile Web Initiative 7 New Fee Structure for W3C Membership 7 W3C Internationalization Activity looks towards Africa 7 Latest W3C Recommendations SPECIAL THEME MULTIMEDIA INFORMATICS Introduction 8 Multimedia Informatics by Joachim Kohler Multimedia Indexing and Retrieval Invited article 10 Managing Digital Photo Collections by Lynn Wilcox 11 Multimedia Indexing The Multimedia Challenge by Patrick Gros Manolis Delakis and Guillaume Gravier 12 MediAssist Managing Personal Digital Photo Archives by Noel Murphy Cathal Gurrin and Gareth J. F. Jones 14 The MUSCLE Benchmarking Initiative by Allan Hanbury and Michael Nolle 15 New Testbed of One Million Images by Gregory Grefenstette Pierre-Alain Moellic Patrick Hède Christophe Millet and Christian Fluhr 16 Managing the Growth of Multimedia Digital Content by David Bainbridge Paul Browne Paul Cairns Stefan Ruger and Li-Qun Xu 18 Maps of Music by Andreas Rauber Thomas Lidy and Robert Neumayer 19 Structuring Multimedia Archives with Static Documents by Denis Lalanne and Rolf Ingold 20 MultimediaN Personalized Information Delivery by Marcel Worring and Nellie Schipper 21 SPIEGLE A Multimedia Search Engine Generator by Arjen de Vries 23 Towards a Smart Content Factory by Georg Guntner 24 Fischlár-News Multimedia Access to Broadcast TV News by Alan F. Smeaton Noel E. O Connor and Hyowon Lee 25 Interactive Multimedia-Enabled Learning and Training by .
