IBBT supports multidisciplinary research for innovative ICT services and applications within five research domains: eHealth, New Media, Mobility, Enabling technologies, and eGovernment. In recent years, IBBT has been involved in projects concerning online home care, mobile television, wireless support systems for emergency services, among others.
The PokuMOn project (Performing arts Multimedia Dissemination) is a good illustration of what we do. The project tackles the problems of online distribution and archiving of multimedia of performing arts and (classical) music. Recent scientific knowledge about copyrights, metadata and audio and video compression are linked to find pragmatic solutions for producers and receptive houses.
PokuMOn wants to establish a durable cooperation between different cultural partners to distribute the multimedia of one production or concert through multiple organizations to the general public.