| Lead sector | Other sectors | Start | Project Duration in Months |
|---|---|---|---|
| RESEARCH | EDUCAT. & TRAINING | 1 January 1996 | 24 |
Project Objectives, Summary description and anticipated results:
Efficient retrieval of information and rapid dissemination of results is crucial for successful research and development in industrial and academic environments. The Internet and its plenitude of services is the major vehicle for this information interchange. The Internet is already the backbone of research and industrial development in the area of computer science, physics, and mathematics. It will most likely become the communication infrastructure for all other sciences within the next few years.
The Internet service with the biggest growth is the so-called World-Wide-Web (WWW), initially developed at a European research institution, CERN. The Web is a meshed network of hypermedia information documents. It is ideally suited for information browsing. Access is performed with hypermedia capable applications such as Mosaic and Netscape, which can be used from a personal computer.
CoBrow will combine the advantages of the WWW with the real-time multimedia communication capabilities of JVTOS (Joint Viewing and Teleoperation Services), a group communication and collaboration service developed under the 3rd Framework Programme. The integration of WWW/JVTOS will be done in a generic way in order to facilitate the integration of other similar real-time communication tools. This will allow researchers interested in the same topical area of the information resource, to interact and share multimedia information in real time.
The result of the project will be a new kind of service accessible on the network, which will considerably enhance the power of the existing services. The new service will be implemented as a tool usable in the Internet, and will be operated and validated as an experimental pilot service in the last phase of the project.
Major Validation sites:
| Institution/ Organisations | City/Town + Postal Code | Region | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| ETH Zürich | Zürich, CH 8092 | CH | |
| Lancaster University | Lancaster, LA14YR | UK83 | UK |
| Univ. of Ulm | Ulm, D-89069 | DE14 | DE |
| Students and graduate students of the participating universities doing project research; researchers in the participating universities. |
| World-Wide-Web and JVTOS will be combined. Meeting Places will be established for communication and collaborative work (CSCW) between reserachers at geographically different sites. User trials will verify the approach. |
| Improved research capabilities of industrial organizations. Better products and services. Faster availability of state-of-the-art technology. |
| Expected benefits for the users of the application |
| A new service accessible on the network, which will considerably enhance the power of the existing services. The new service will be implemented as a tool usable in the Internet. |
| Faster development in the engineering sector. Better access to research results. |
| Advances in the exploding telecommunication market. Improved communication across national borders increasing research cost-effectiviness. Improved communication between Industry and Research Institutions. |
Coordinator:
| Institution/ Organisations | City + Postal Code | Region | Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Universität Ulm | Ulm, D-89069 | DE14 | DE |
| Parent company | Controlling Company (Country) | ||
| n/a | n/a |
Contact person from the Coordinating Contractor:
| Title, First Name, Name | Dr. Konrad Froitzheim | Address: | Universität Ulm Abteilung Verteilte Systeme D-89069 Ulm |
|---|---|---|---|
| Tel: | ++49 731 502 4146 | Fax: | ++49 731 502 4142 |
| E-mail 1: | frz@informatik.uni-ulm.de | E-mail 2: |
| Participants Code | Name of Institution/Organisation | City + Postal Code | Region | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| C2 | University of Lancaster | Lancaster LA14YR | UK83 | UK |
| C3 | ETH Zürich | Zürich, 8092 | CH |