Research Projects

HARMOS

HARMOS (European Multilingual Digital Data Collection for Multimedia Content in Music Heritage) aims to reuse information produced by public education institutions in the field of cultural heritage by creating a digital collection and making it available online together with other services.

The project focused on music heritage and popular music in the context of eLearning, with the participation of renowned European music schools and national conservatories. OrbiTeam contributed a collaborative component used for annotating the digital content. The project is funded by the European Union e-Content programme.

Partners in HARMOS are the Fundacion Isaac Albeniz (FIA), the Music Technology Group (MTG) of Universitat Pompeu Fabra Barcelona (UPF) and a number of European music schools (e.g. Staatliche Musikhochschule Stuttgart, Royal College of Music London).

MILK

MILK (Multimedia Interaction for Learning and Knowing) was an international research project under the framework of the European Union's ST Programme. The project aimed to create a solution to support knowledge and business processes in knowledge intensive organizations. MILK embraced the capabilities of the Internet to access knowledge anywhere and anytime, according to the business needs of organizations in the Internet community.

OrbiTeam worked on the central knowledge management module (based on BSCW) and developed mobile access system components. Among the partners in MILK were a number of European research organizations and universities (Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, DA Research, University of Milano), as well as European companies from various industries (Irso, Butera e Partners, Xerox Global Services). 

int.unity

With the help of an innovative language technology, the project int.unity has put the cooperation between the Communication Workers Union (Great Britain) and the Vereinte Dienstleistungsgewerkschaft ver.di on a new basis. In a two-year project, the technical partners, OrbiTeam Software GmbH & Co. KG and the Institute for Applied Information Research (IAI) Saarbrücken, adapted language translation technology in line with the trade union's requirements and integrated it into the BSCW Internet platform.

SCOPE

SCOPE - Structuring Content for On-line Publishing Environments aimed to demonstrate how scientific intellectual property held by many universities and public agencies can be reused and transformed into a valuable resource and high value products. To this end, a demonstrator was developed and turned into a successful commercial service.

OrbiTeam has developed a workflow system to support remote content creation in the context of the SCOPE project. The project ended in June 2003 and was funded by the European Union e-Content programme. Project participants include the publishing house Doyma, Corporacio Sanitaria Clinic, the University of Barcelona and University College Wales.