Project Details

Acronym: LiveMemories

Full Name: Active Digital Memories of Collective Life

Reference: Bando grandi progetti 2006 - Provincia Autonoma di Trento

Start date: October 1, 2008

Duration: 36 months

Coordinator: FBK-irst (Italy)

Scientific coordinator: Bernardo Magnini (FBK-irst)

The Project

From a scientific / technical perspective, LiveMemories aims at scaling up content extraction techniques
towards very large scale extraction from multimedia sources, setting the scene for a Content Management
Platform for Trentino; using this information to support new ways of linking, summarizing and classifying
data in a new generation of digital memories which are `alive’ and user-centered; and to turn the creation
of such memories into a communal web activity. Achieving these objectives will make Trento a key player
in the new Web Science Initiative, digital memories, and Web 2.0, thanks also to the involvement of
Southampton. But LiveMemories is also intended to have a social and cultural impact besides the
scientific one: through the collection, analysis and preservation of digital memories of Trentino; by
facilitating and encouraging the preservation of such community memories; and the fostering of new
forms of community, and enrichment of our cultural and social heritage.

The Project Website

www.livememories.org