1996 - European Telework Week

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AC075 EIES - European Information Exchange Service for the communication
between harbours
EIES aims at defining, implementing and experimenting an advanced communication
service to support routine and non-routine communication between harbour authorities,
ship owners, customs, fire brigade etc. within harbour areas. To do so a demonstrator
will be put into place and be used on a platform based on several technologies, amongst
which ATM broadband.
Link to Telework/Tele-cooperation
Will provide input on guidelines on telecooperation and telework by exploring
implementation of AC in-depth in a specific environment.
AC079 EPRI-WATCH - European Parliament Research Initiative Watch
The project's main objective is to stimulate information exchange between those
involved with technology development/trials in ACTS, and those involved in policy
debates on Information Society issues in European, national and regional parliaments
and policy making bodies. Seminars and workshops on fields of common interest
combined with video events and distributed seminars and presentations of ACTS trials
and demonstrations will be held to generate better awareness of the policy concerns
relating to technology developments. The main trial will involve the use of advanced
telecommunications by parliamentarians themselves and by their support staff and will
generate valuable feedback for the Commission’s research programmes from an
important user group.
Link to Telework/Tele-cooperation
EPRI-WATCH can play an important role in the development of guidelines on a
political level, by providing assistance in communication with the political community.
AC082 DIANE - Design, Implementation and operation of a Distributed Annotation
Environment
Distributed multimedia services envisaged today in most cases distinguish sharply
between service and content provider on one side and consuming users on the other
side. Only a few applications have been realised strengthening the role of end users both
as content provider and consumer. Existing multimedia authoring systems are either
application-specific or allow solely combinations of media generated entirely by a user,
as is the case for multimedia mail. The goal of the project is to develop a multimedia
service removing these deficits. DIANE is conceived as a service allowing users to
create, exchange and consume multimedia data easily. As trial applications, DIANE has
decided to develop and test annotation services for two different settings: (1)
teleradiology and (2) a computing center providing ‘annotated’ support to its users for
interacting with complex computer applications.
Link to Telework/Tele-cooperation
An annotation service is of considerable value in a tele-cooperation/telework
environment. The trial is expected to explore the added value of the services to be
developed to telework/telecooperation.
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