Metadata: Increasing Value in Digital Content Collaborative R&D Competition

The Technology Strategy Board (TSB) has announced an exciting new £5m competition for collaborative R&D into metadata, Metadata: increasing the value of digital content.

This page brings together useful resources and events for organisations considering making an application.

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£5m Metadata Competition background info
Presentations & Videos
Partnering for Innovation: Metadata information events
Finding partners (Ideas Marketplace)
Competition info flyer
Deadlines for entries and other key dates
Technology Strategy Board contact info
Useful links: TSB, Creative KTN Metadata community, etc.

Other competition: Partnering for Innovation (Collaboration Across Digital Industries)

£5m Metadata Competition background info

The competition was launched on 1st June with a live webinar outlining the background metadata challenges the TSB are looking to address.

These revolve around three core areas: interoperability of different sets of metadata, improving the search and discovery of metadata to help generate revenue and improving the linkage between metadata and the original content.

The competition flyer for this competition, Metadata: increasing the value of digital content is available below.

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Presentations and videos

The Partnering for Innovation (Metadata) events took place in London and Birmingham, below are presentations and videos from the events.

Simon Hopkins, Metadata Theme Champion

Simon Hopkins from Unthinkable Consulting, the newly-appointed Metadata Theme Champion for the Creative Industries KTN set the scene for the event with his presentation exploring the power of Metadata using Progressive Rock as an example. Yes, you read that right.

John Sheridan, Metadata's Evolution & its Public Sector use

John Sheridan, Head of e-Services & Strategy at OPSI (National Archives) looked at the evolution of metadata, the current innovations and how organisations are collaborating on services to use metadata.

Chris Thorpe, Jaggeree, Metadata Opportunities

Chris Thorpe from Jaggeree whose experience encompasses MySpace and The Guardian presented his take on the evolution of metadata, current innovations and how organisations are overcoming the barriers to collaborating on services to use metadata.

Alex Stanhope, TSB £5m Metadata Competition

Alex Stanhope, Lead Technologist from the TSB who are running this £5m Metadata competition gave a presentation on the background to the competition and the challenges that the R&D funding is seeking to address.

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Partnering for Innovation: Metadata events

These information events are a great opportunity to hear directly from the TSB about the competition and secure some one-on-one time with the lead technologist, Alex Stanhope as well as the Collaboration Café and the Ideas Marketplace to help build consortiums for competition entries.

Partnering for Innovation (Metadata) - Birmingham
When: Thu 1 Jul, 2010 from 10:00am - 4:30pm
Where: Maple House, 150 Corporation Street, B4 6TB (Map)
What: Full agenda & Attendee list

Partnering for Innovation (Metadata) - London
When: Tue 6 Jul, 2010 from 10:00am - 4:30pm
Where: IAB, 14 Macklin Street, London, WC2B 5NF (Map)
What: Full agenda & Attendee list

Partnering for Innovation (Metadata) - Cambridge
When: Thu 9 Sep, 2010 from 9:30am - 2:00pm
Where: TBC, Cambridge
RSVP: Full agenda & Attendee list

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Finding partners (Ideas Marketplace)

Ideas Marketplace Successful applications require entries from consortiums of two or more partners. To help this process it's possible to connect with any delegates who attended the Partnering for Innovation events through the Creative Industries KTN Beacons social network.

Register (if you came to an event, you'll be registered already), navigate to the events pages (Birmingham, London) and you'll find a list of all the delegates who attended including details of their project, if supplied.

At each of the Partnering for Innovation (Metadata) events, lunchtime sessions included an Ideas Marketplace, for companies looking to connect with partners using the trusty, low-tech method of flipcharts! Pictures of all the ideas have been posted on the Beacons social network and you can browse them on Flickr, too.