Welcome to our fourth Newsletter
I N S I D E T H I S
I S S U E :
Welcome 1
MOVING MOOC 1
MOVING tutori-
als and demos
2
New and im-
proved technol-
ogies in the
plaorm
2
Video fragmen-
taon
2
Plaorm Evalu-
aon
3
MOVING at
UNESCO’s work-
shop on Open
Educaon De-
sign
3
MOVING at Da-
ta Driven Future
Forum
3
MOVING at
Open Science
4
MOVING at FTA
2018
4
MOVING at
UNESCO’s Mo-
bile Learning
Week
5
Brief news: re-
cent and up-
coming events
5
Contact details 6
Registration for the MOVING MOOC is open!
S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8
I S S U E 4
MOVING is organising a MOOC
on Science 2.0 and open
research methods”. In the
MOOC young scholars will
learn to use web-based social
technologies and online
communies not just as an
object of study, but also as
way of conducng research: to
build networks, discuss
ndings, and collaborate with
scholars (globally) across
disciplinary, cultural and
geographical boundaries. Parcipants in the MOOC will learn how the use of social technologies
together with movements like Creave Commons oer enrely new ways to publish, share, discuss and
reproduce scienc ndings and data. Mastering these social technologies and web-based tools will
provide them with the opportunity to create scholarly innovaons and make their own scienc
ndings accessible to a broader public.
The MOOC starts November 12th, 2018 on the MOVING plaorm. For more informaon watch this
short video: hps://youtu.be/Z4xUHy3QGDE, visit the MOVING website, and follow the MOOC
organisers on Twier @MoMoSci20. Register for the MOOC on: hps://moving.mz.tu-dresden.de/
mooc.
The MOOC will be held on the MOVING plaorm where we provide a combined space for research,
collaboraon and training. Movements like Open Data, Open Access, and Open Educaonal Resources
that advocate the free access to knowledge for everyone have broad implicaons for the excellence of
researchits creavity, producvity, reliability, and validity and require a new set of competences and
atudes for young researchers to thrive in this environment. That is why we created this MOOC.
The MOVING project is now in its nal year, and lots of excing developments are witnessed in many
fronts. For instance, we are pleased to announce that the registraon for our MOVING MOOC “Science
2.0 and open research methods” is open! New video tutorials and demos are publicly available,
showing the MOVING-developed technologies and how these were integrated in the plaorm. In
parallel to this and with the development stage almost completed, preparaons for the evaluaon of
the MOVING plaorm with data captured from real users are under way. Finally, the MOVING
consorum connued in this period to parcipate in several scienc and industrial events, such as the
Open Science conference, and to organise acvies, such as a course at UNESCO’s Workshop on Open
Educaon Design.
P A G E 2
Tools - Demos - Results
MOVING tutorials and videos
New
technologies
and learning
materials in
the MOVING
plaorm
New and improved technologies, visualisations and
learning materials in the MOVING platform
MOVING
tutorials and
demos
The latest public version of the MOVING plaorm
is now live under hps://moving.mz.tu-dresden.
de/. It includes a wealth of new or updated
funconalies, and new learning materials within
the search environment. Examples of new or
updated funconalies include the faceted
search, which has been revised and enriched, and
can now be used in many ways; and, improved
visualisaons (uRank, Concept Graph) that have
been further adapted to the requirements and
suggesons of the users of the plaorm. New
learning materials include more documents,
datasets and crawled websites that are
connuously being indexed, and for which more
metadata are also added thanks to the updated
crawlers, enhancing the quality of the data; and
of course the MOVING MOOC, for which
registraon (via the MOVING plaorm) is open
the MOOC itself will start being delivered in mid-
November.
For our project’s disseminaon and exploitaon,
and in the scope of the MOVING learning
environment, partner JSI together with all other
members of the consorum lmed short video
tutorials and demos explaining the MOVING
developed technologies and how they are
integrated in the MOVING plaorm. The whole
technical tutorials and demos repository is
available at hp://videolectures.net/
moving_videos/, at the MOVING project site, and
is also being integrated in the MOVING plaorm’s
learning environment.
Till Blume presenng the LODao+ search engine
of the MOVING plaorm
MOVING’s lecture video fragmentation technologies
MOVING has been working on developing new and more eecve methods for lecture video
fragmentaon and fragment-level annotaon, to allow for ne-grained access to lecture video
collecons. Our latest method for lecture video fragmentaon was recently accepted for presentaon
and publicaon in the 2019 Mulmedia Modeling conference (MMM 2019). According to this method,
only automacally-generated speech transcripts of a video are examined, and these are analysed with
the help of word embeddings that are generated from pre-trained state-of-the-art neural networks. In
addion to developing this new approach, in our accepted MMM 2019 paper we address a major
problem of video lecture fragmentaon research, which is the lack of large-scale datasets for
evaluaon. We address this by presenng a new arcially-generated dataset of synthec video lecture
transcripts, based on real VideoLectures.NET data, and we make this new dataset publicly available to
the research community.
This lecture video fragmentaon method is part of the MOVING plaorm, and its results are also being
ingested in the VideoLectures.NET plaorm, making it possible for the users of both plaorms to access
and view specic fragments of lecture videos that cater to their informaon needs.
Video lecture
fragmentaon
technologies
P A G E 3 I S S U E 4
Communication and dissemination activities
The UNESCO Chair on Open
Technologies for Open
Educaonal Resources and
Open Learning at the Jožef
Stefan Instute, together with
the University of Nova Gorica,
organised a 5-day course on
Open Educaon Design in
Vipava, Slovenia (2-6 July
2018). The aim of the course
was to equip the parcipants with basic knowledge, praccal advice and hands-on experience to prepare them for their own
design of Open Educaonal Resources (OER). Lecturers and parcipants came from 17 countries. MOVING project partners
CERTH, ZBW and JSI were among the lecturers. They presented MOVING and showcased, with a live demo, the MOVING
plaorm to more than 30 parcipants of the course.
MOVING session at UNESCO’s Workshop on Open Education Design
Dr I. Vagliano presenng MOVING
UNESCO workshop (group photo)
MOVING at the Data Driven Future Forum: Learning Analytics
On the 17
th
of April 2018 the Learning Analycs event: Data
Driven Future Forum: Learning Analycs Daten Und
Digitale Traces Zum Lernen took place at the Know-Center
in Graz, where results of the MOVING project were
presented by Dr. Angela Fessl. More specically, around 25
interested persons from industry (e.g. automove industry,
life sciences or publisher) as well as from science (Graz
University of Technology, University of Graz, Medical
University of Graz, FH Joanneum, Pro
2
Future) and school
(HTL Leoben) came to the event. Dr. Angela Fessl, one of the
researchers in the MOVING project, presented the MOVING
plaorm, including the two widgets for providing adapve
training support. Her presentaon included not only how
meaningful reecon guidance can be applied in order to
movate people to improve their own search behaviour, but
also how guidance can be provided to follow a pre-dened
learning path through a curriculum to improve the own
competence on informaon literacy. The subsequent
discussion was very fruiul and vital, showing that people
from industry, science and school are very interested in the
topics we address in the MOVING project.
MOVING platform evaluation
During the following months, we will evaluate the MOVING plaorm in the wild. Interacon data captured from real users
will be analysed using data-driven techniques to get insights into the workows exhibited by the users, understand how the
available funconalies are used and idenfy potenal usability problems. The evaluaon of the plaorm and its widgets,
such as the Adapve Training Support and data visualisaons, will ensure the MOVING plaorm fulls our expectaons and
matches the requirements set in the project.
MOVING presentaon at the learning analycs event at
Know-Center
MOVING
parcipaon at
the Open Science
Conference
P A G E 4
MOVING at the
European’s
Commission
DG JRC event:
FTA 2018
MOVING
parcipated in the
Internaonal Open
Science Conference
2018 held in Berlin,
Germany, in March
13-14 2018, by
having a stand with
demos and videos at the main congress exhibion
hall during the rst day of the event. The event
was an opportunity for presenng the latest
developments in various MOVING-related
technologies (video understanding, advanced
visualisaon, search technologies, smart learning
etc.) to the over 200 parcipants from dierent
sectors (EC, companies, policy makers), including
teachers, researchers, linguists, IPR lawyers,
public administrators etc. The parcipants were
from dierent countries and connents
(Germany, UK, Spain, Italy, Greece, USA, etc.).
This parcipaon made possible the exchange of
contacts, for invesgang further cooperaon
possibilies. The MOVING stand featured
MOVING yers and a smart screen to demo the
latest version of the MOVING plaorm. In
addion, vising cards with a QR code and a
special link to the plaorm were distributed to
encourage people to try the plaorm themselves.
Overall, the Internaonal Open Science
Conference 2018, organised by the Leibniz
Research Alliance Science 2.0, was dedicated to
the Open Science movement and provided a
unique forum for researchers, librarians,
praconers, infrastructure provider, policy
makers, and other stakeholders to discuss and
exchange their ideas and experiences. The
congress aracted high-prole policy makers,
among them the Head of Unit A6, DG Research
and Innovaon, European Commission, the
President of the Leibniz Associaon and the
German State Secretary at the Federal Ministry of
Educaon and Research (BMBF). For more details
on the conference in general you can visit
hps://www.open-science-conference.eu/ .
MOVING at FTA 2018
The MOVING strategy building background was
presented at the 6th conference FTA 2018 Future
oriented technology analysis 2018 “Future in the
making” held in Brussels, Belgium, on 4-5 June 2018. The
talk entled: Strategy building for a knowledge
repository with a novel expert informaon fusion tool
was given by Prof. Dr. Andrzej M.J. Skulimowski from
PBF, in the session C2Horizon Scanning & Beyond”. The
conference was organised by the European Commission
DG (Directorate-General) JRC. The presentaon
focused on the project’s innovave approach to the MOVING plaorm’s visionary planning, the
applicaon of novel online tools such as expert Delphi survey support system, ancipatory networks,
and technological roadmapping. They have been deployed as tools within exploitaon, community
building and user group development tasks of the MOVING project in the disseminaon and
exploitaon workpackage. The talk included also an overview of a novel approach to ensuring the
sustainability of the MOVING digital knowledge plaorm. It provided an insight to the methodology of
mulcriteria plaorm exploitaon assessment developed within the project. The ulmate goal of
strategic planning within the disseminaon and exploitaon workpackage is to select a development
strategy ensuring the viability and sustainable exploitaon of the MOVING plaorm during the project
durability period and beyond.
The
MOVING
plaorm
vising
card
MOVING participation in the Open Science Conference
Group photo from the FTA 2018 event
The MOVING presentaon
by Prof. Dr. Thomas Köhler
Brief news: recent and upcoming events
Two papers, on “Training Researchers with the MOVING Plaorm”, by I. Vagliano, A. Fessl, F. Guenther, T. Koehler, V.
Mezaris, A. Saleh, A. Scherp, I. Simic”, and on “Temporal Lecture Video Fragmentaon using Word Embeddings” by D.
Galanopoulos, V. Mezaris, were accepted at the 25th Int. Conf. on MulMedia Modeling (MMM 2019), Thessaloniki,
Greece, January 2019.
A paper on Open Innovaon in the Big Data Era with the MOVING Plaorm: An Integrated Working and Training
Approach for Data-savvy Informaon Professionalsby I. Vagliano, F. Guenther, M. Heinz, A. Apaolaza, I. Bienia, G.
Breiuss, T. Blume, C. Collyda, A. Fessl, S. Goried, P. Hasitschka, J. Kellermann, T. Koehler, A. Maas, V. Mezaris, A.
Saleh, A. Skulimowski, S. Thalmann, M. Vigo, A. Wertner, M. Wiese, A. Scherp, was accepted for publicaon in IEEE
MulMedia, 2018.
A paper onUsing Adversarial Autoencoders for Mul-Modal Automac Playlist Connuaon” by I. Vagliano, L.
Galke, F. Mai, A. Scherp was accepted for publicaon at the ACM RecSys conference in Vancouver, Canada, October
2018.
A demo on “Digging for Gold: Movang Users to Explore Alternave Search Interfacesby A. Fessl, A. Wertner, V.
Pammer-Schindler was presented at the European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL 2018),
Leeds, Great Britain), September 2018.
A paper on What to Read Next? Challenges and Preliminary Results in Selecng Representave Documents” by T.
Beck, F. Böschen, A. Scherp was presented at the DEXA 2018 Internaonal Workshops, BDMICS, BIOKDD, and TIR,
Regensburg, Germany, September 2018.
A paper on “Towards an Incremental Schema-level Index for Distributed Linked Open Data Graphs” by T. Blume, A.
Scherp was presented at the Learning, Knowledge, Data, Analycs Conference (LWDA 2018), Mannheim, Germany,
August 2018.
A paper on “Mul-Modal Adversarial Autoencoders for Recommendaons of Citaons and Subject Labels” by L.
Galke, F. Mai, I. Vagliano, A. Scherp was presented at the 26
th
ACM User Modelling, Adaptaon and Personalizaon
Conference (ACM UMAP 2018), Singapore, July 2018.
A paper on “Virtualizing face-2-face trainings for training senior professionals: a comparave case study on nancial
auditorsby V. Pammer-Schindler, S Thalmann, A. Fessl, J. Füssel was presented at the 5
th
Annual ACM Conference
on Learning at Scale (L@S 2018), London, UK, London, June 2018.
A paper on “Analyzing the Evoluon of Vocabulary Terms and Their Impact on the LOD Cloud” by M. Abdel-Qader, A.
Scherp, I. Vagliano was presented at the 15
th
Extended Semanc Web Conference (ESWC 2018), Crete, Greece, June
2018.
A paper on “Survey and empirical comparison of dierent approaches for text extracon from scholarly gures” by F.
Böschen, T. Beck, A. Scherp was published in the Mulmedia Tools and Appllicaons journal, June 2018.
Two papers, on “Eecve Unsupervised Author Disambiguaon with Relave Frequencies” by T. Backes, and on
“Using Deep Learning for Title-Based Semanc Subject Indexing to Reach Compeve Performance to Full-Texts” by
F. Mai, L. Galke, A. Scherp, were presented at the Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2018 (JCDL 2018), Fort Worth,
Texas, US, June 2018.
A paper on “Towards Flexible Indices for Distributed Graph Data: The Formal Schema-level Index Model FLuID” by T.
Blume, A. Scherp was presented at the 30
th
GI-Workshop on Foundaons of Databases (Grundlagen von
Datenbanken), Wuppertal, Germany, May 2018.
Consorum partner JSI organised a workshop session at the UNESCO
conference Mobile Learning Week“, on 26-30 March 2018 in Paris,
France. Mobile Learning Week is the United Naons’s agship ICT in
educaon conference. The conference tle for 2018 was “Skills for a
connected world”. In the JSI-organised workshop on March 26th, JSI
presented arcial intelligence technologies for OER and open
educaon. Among others, MOVING was also presented. The workshop
was successful and aracted around 40 parcipants.
JSI presenng
arcial intel-
ligence tech-
nologies for
OER and open
educaon
MOVING presentation at UNESCO’s Mobile Learning Week
P A G E 5 I S S U E 4
This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovaon pro-
gramme under grant agreement No 693092
Project Coordinator: Dr. Vasileios Mezaris
Address: Informaon Technologies Instute (ITI),
Centre for Research and Technology Hellas
(CERTH) 6th Km Charilaou - Thermi Road, 57001
Thermi - Thessaloniki, Greece
Tel: +302311 257770, Fax: +302310 474128
E-mail: bmezaris@i.gr
Full Title: “TraininG towards a society of data-
saVvy informaon prOfessionals to enable open
leadership INnovaon”
Project Idener: H2020 - 693092
Start Date: 1st April 2016
End Date: 31st March 2019
Duraon: 36 months
Contact Details
Project Details
Centre for Research & Technology Hellas
Informaon Technologies Instute
hp://www.i.gr
Ernst & Young GmbH
hp://www.ey.com/Home
Technische Universität Dresden
hps://tu-dresden.de
Know-Center
hp://www.know-center.tugraz.at/
Instut Jožef Stefan
hps://www.ijs.si/ijsw/JSI
ZBW-Leibniz Informaon Centre for Economics
hp://www.zbw.eu/en/
The University of Manchester
hp://www.manchester.ac.uk/
GESIS-Leibniz Instute for the Social Sciences
hp://www.gesis.org/en/instute/
Fundacja Progress and Business
hp://www.pbf.pl
hp://moving-project.eu/
@MOVING_EU
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