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PetaMedia might be remembered as one of the ‘last of the Mohicans’ in that ‘Networks of Excellence’ of its kind are an endangered species, as far as EU contracts go. Collaborative R&D projects in the EU framework programmes are a proven and effective instrument to address scientific and societal problems, reinforcing global competitiveness as part of a single ‘European Research Area’. PetaMedia was given a grant to ‘spread excellence’ and to achieve a ‘lasting integration’ both fruitful and collaborative in nature. On average NoE grants had 11 separate organizations signing the contract, but PetaMedia had just four ‘core’ partners and other loosely tethered ‘affiliated partners’. Their goal was to co-operate as part of a ‘Virtual Centre of Excellence’ that would attract the most ingenious researchers in the area of peer-to-peer networking and tagged media (hence the acronym, which French speakers found peculiar).
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At the time of the PetaMedia grant, in DG Information Society’s Directorate D Convergent Networks and Services, the networks of excellence were only 5 out of a total 104 grants (another 20 were IPs, 67 STREPS, and 12 CSAs). With more calls, the statistics have changed, but NoEs are excluded from many objectives, after a critical review of NoEs by the Court of Auditors.
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Others forecast wilder estimates: The May 2012 SMART study by Jonathan Cave of RAND Europe, Gabriella Cattaneo of IDC EMEA, and other claims that the ‘digital universe’ has grown 48% since 2011 to a difficult-to-imagine 2.7 zettabytes of data. The sum of all human speech (if it were to be recorded) would take up 42 zettabytes of storage, and by 2020, the ‘Internet economy’ is expected to reach five trillion euro.
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The projects will continue their work in other units.
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Example are the QoEMEX international conference and the COST action project that supports QoE metrics.
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Future Internet Design Principles, FIA Arch Group, January 2012 edited by Dimitri Papadimitriou and Theodore Zachariades.
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Reference is to VICTORY and iSEARCH project results.
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The cordis.eu website is where the Work Programme is published: FP7 Call 10 WP2013 Cooperation Theme 3 ICT objective 1.1 future networks, 1.6 connected and social media, and other specific call texts such as collective awareness platforms.
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The CIP project OpenSem started in 2011 and includes relevant industrial and academic partners from two media search cluster projects PetaMedia and PHAROS.
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Anania, L. (2013). Research in Social Media: How the EC Facilitates R&D Innovation. In: Ramzan, N., van Zwol, R., Lee, JS., Clüver, K., Hua, XS. (eds) Social Media Retrieval. Computer Communications and Networks. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4555-4_15
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