Welcome to our fourth Newsletter

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Welcome 1

MOVING MOOC 1

MOVING tutori-

als and demos

New and im-

proved technol-

ogies in the

plaorm

Video fragmen-

taon

Plaorm Evalu-

aon

MOVING at

UNESCO’s work-

shop on Open

Educaon De-

sign

MOVING at Da-

ta Driven Future

Forum

MOVING at

Open Science

MOVING at FTA

2018

MOVING at

UNESCO’s Mo-

bile Learning

Week

Brief news: re-

cent and up-

coming events

Contact details 6

Registration for the MOVING MOOC is open!

S E P T E M B E R 2 0 1 8

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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

research – its 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.

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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

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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

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

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

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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 C2 “Horizon 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 Professionals” by 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 on “Using 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 Interfaces” by 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

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

auditors” by V. Pammer-Schindler, S Thalmann, A. Fessl, J. Füssel was presented at the 5

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

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

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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