2. MANAGEMENT
3. TECHNICAL
4. COST STATEMENT
5. ANNEX A: MOSAIC ACTION ITEMS LIST
6. ANNEX B: COST STATEMENT
7. ANNEX C: PLANNING - (next page)
1. Summary
The document describes the main activities in MOSAIC done by Contractors and Participating Organisation during the period from 1st May up to 31st October 1997.
2. Management
The main management activities performed have been:
- contractual issues clarification (Kick-off meeting) and P.O. subcontract preparation and signature
- web site organisation, definition and activation
- project standard and tools definition
- MOSAIC Flyer design
- Report format design
- web site in progress upgrading and management
- MOSAIC communication documentation (depliant, video, screen-saver,..)
- meeting organisation:
- May 29th 1997 MOSAIC kick-off - Brussels
- June 2nd 1997 MOSAIC internal kick-off - Rome
- June 5th 1997 MOSAIC presentation MOU event - Brussels
- June 27th 1997 MOSAIC presentation day - Rome
- July 28th 1997 "Entretiens de Paris sur le devenir de l' action culturelle - Europeenne" - Paris
- July 29th 1997 Co-ordination Meeting - Paris
- up 13th to 16th September - Working meeting in Milan
- up 7th to 9th October - Working meeting in Milan
- secretary-project organisation and internal start-up
- Third week of November - Internal Mid term review with demonstration session
- Third week of December - Working meeting at Graz (to be defined)
- January month - Meeting with UE (to be organised in accordance with available dates of UE Commission)
Each meeting shall be organised on two days:
- first day for the working in progress analysis and the review or discussion of the WP documents
- second day for the presentation of the project to the potential partners looking for new sponsors
- "Partners" - information about : (1) MOSAIC Consortium ("the Coordinator" and "the Contractors"), (2) Additional Partners (other Cultural Operators) (3) How to join (how to obtain more info, to receive an account for MOSAIC, to support MOSAIC, to send remarks/suggestions)
- "Project" - information about : (1) Contractual Documentation (Contract, Planning, Deliverables List, Work Packages), (2) Technical Documentation, (3) Events (MOASIC events), (4) Dead line check and control (MOSAIC deliverables), (4) Report
- "Other Project"- web links of MOSAIC related projects. Actually new links have been added to the following EU projects : AQUARELLE, CHIO, IMPRIMATUR, MOU
- "Info" - abstract of MOSAIC project
- "Forum" to have a cyber-net debate about MOSAIC and spread the cultural heritage dissemination.
- "Demos" presentation of tools, services and applications related to the MOSAIC project.
- "News" contains a list of MOSAIC related events and a "Press" area
- "Intranet" contains useful documents for entities involved in MOSAIC project. At moment is present: Documentation (Digital library, Related non-EU projects, MOSAIC logo forum), Download Area (standard document, report layout, compression tools, telecommunication tools, Site download)
- "Web Tools" contains tools for MOSAIC web users. A demo for flash-pix and VRML has activated
- The MOSAIC logo has been produced. It is the outcome of the various stages experienced by the graphic alphabet, it is a fundamental means for communication and culture. It is the synthesis of the graphic excursus, which goes from the Roman inscriptions, through Charlemagne, with the Caroline writing, who was the promoter of the unity of the western graphics, to the Renaissance harmonisation and the XIX century ornate style. The colours of the logo come out from an artistic elaboration of a detail of the EU flag, as an interpretation of the contents of the project MOSAIC.
- An open e-mail has been activated on the web. It is mosaic@bancaroma.it.
- The four registration forms for "Potential Partners", "Information Request", "User Registration", "Remarks" have been activated.
- July 1st the output of work-package 1100 (Survey on the state of the Art) has been inserted on the MOSAIC web both in HTML and .doc format
- July 7th a new MOSAIC web zipped version has been inserted on the MOSAIC web (for downloading)
- October the WP 1400 document and the first issue of WP 1500 document has been inserted on the MOSAIC web.
- an ftp account on UNIX machine has been created to enable fast files downloading (zero.infobyte.it)
The MOSAIC web has been completed in all the different language version and each partner manages and upgrades the mirrored version. In the Info area is present a save-screen of the MOSAIC project. The area demo illustrates some selected tool and running tool in the final CSC configuration already available on the Cineca platform. All the project documentation is in line for the authorised person. The MOSAIC communication and presentation tape is ready.
3. Technical
The following table illustrates a synthesis of the work in progress.
| WP 1100 | Survey of the "state of the art" | |
| WP 1200 | Market plan | |
| WP 1300 | Partner search and economical agreement definition | |
| WP 1400 | Target User profile definition | |
| WP 1500 | Requirements definition, tools, service centres, application | |
| WP 1600 | Study for the reuse of existing applications into the defined architecture | |
| WP 1700 | Architecture definition and tools definition | |
| WP 1800 | Dissemination of results | |
| WP 1900 | Management | |
| WP 2000 | CSC model demonstrator |
Due to the presence of important events in August (Siggraph 97 - Los Angeles) and in September (ICHIM 97 - Paris), we decided to update our acknowledge with the outputs of these conferences and update the WP 1100 (survey on the state of the art). Similar considerations have been done for the WP 1400. In fact in both manifestations interviews were scheduled to obtain information to refine the WP 1400 document. For the WP 1400 document these updates have already been inserted in the delivered issue of the document.
The WP 2000, has been activated in order to obtain some tools and services on line. The main elements has been presented in the demo area of the mosaic web.
The main technological goals of the events:
- August 1st - 10th: ACM Siggraph 97 in Los Angeles - annual international conference and exhibition devoted to computer graphics and multimedia. Is still one of the easier world-wide occasion to meet in one site and in a few days only experts, researchers and top line companies (please refer to Siggraph 97 web-www.siggraph.org/s97/).
TEN Telecom programme is a market oriented framework, the main issue of TEN projects is to create and deliver trough the network new 'smart' services mainly using or re-using existing technologies (this is not a research framework). MOSAIC is consequently based on networks, VR and hypermedia applications selected from the full range of existing and quickly evolving technologies. The WPK 1100 outlined some of such technologies like "flashpix" hi-resolution imaging system (Kodak, MS, HP ..), SUMS programme universal media searching system, HTML 3.2 active pages, VRML, infinity resolution IVR and so on. People and companies working on such technologies are present at Siggraph to outline the future developments of their studies. This has been useful to consolidate the development of MOSAIC and create joint projects. High performance, low price head mounted display will be probably used in MOSAIC Cultural Service Centres or home based applications and the same may apply to 3D navigation devices. Canadian indexing systems are surely world-wide very well known. Attending Siggraph we have meet and enforce even existing relationships with such companies. Some meetings with experts and companies has been made. Due to the even increasing market and high speed of development in IT we plan to update and tune our survey on the state of art and consequently MOSAIC standards (WP 1400 and WP 1500) before the completion of the first year, this thanks to a continuous tracking on emerging technologies and new markets.
On this occasion we have proposed a presentation of MOSAIC project first year results as contribution to Siggraph 98 (Orlando FL). We think that MOSAIC will guarantee a multimedia access to Europe's cultural heritage but as preliminary studies carried out on the possible markets have outlined that USA, CANADA and Japan will probably be the major markets for "Europe's Cultural Services" and in this perspective disseminating results and techniques at Siggraph "stage" is surely a good start. To reach this goal we have to work very hard with the ACM technical committee. - August 11th - 13th: meetings in San Francisco with SGI, Xerox and other companies for preliminary discussion of technical and economical agreement linked to WPK 1300, 1400, 1600 and 1700
- August 14th - 16th: meeting in Redmond (Seattle) Microsoft headquarters for preliminary discussion of technical and economical agreement linked to WPK 1300, 1400, 1500 and 2000
Both the meeting in San Francisco and Seattle are mainly devoted to keep in touch with research centres and technology providers like Xerox PARC leader in human/machine interfaces and network technology or Microsoft laboratories market leader also for home market. And particularly speaking about the role of Microsoft they are actually a reference point for high volume market (the main market to fund cultural heritage services - a big amount of small fees). Another reason to meet people from SGI, Netscape, Apple and Microsoft is the real possibility to promote MOSAIC solution on the market, at least for the first year of implementation, taking advantage of distribution channels linked to widely diffused operating systems and network browsers. The global potential market offered by the Internet forces to solve the market approach globally, one possible scenario for MOSAIC may be a bundled system with the most popular products distributed world-wide instead of a never ending sequence of separate agreement with each institution and country. Try to solve self-funding problem using on line transactions, prepaid services and other possible solution in the first period seems not to be the best solution to create a non-existing market. - August 17th - 20th: meeting in Toronto (Canada) with Prof. Kim Veltman's equipe devoted to SUMS project application to MOSAIC. SUMS (System for Universal Media Searching) was foreseen as primary "search engine" for MOSAIC Internet applications.
During this period (from May to July) the activities done are mainly related to the WP 1100, 1300, and 1400.
The WP 1100 document has been delivered, but an upgrading is still in progress as above mentioned. The WP 1100 document has been delivered, but an upgrading is still in progress as above mentioned. Infact, as stated into the document:
This document contains an overview on the state of art outlining some technologies or applications that are to be considered as "under observation" for the future developments of MOSAIC. For ease of reference the access
to the content of the document is structured into a general overview on G7 and EU actions followed by four sections (Hardware, Software, Applications, Projects) devoted to specific technologies and applications. Due to the even increasing state of technology and application, this document will be updated at least one time during the development of the project.
The guidelines aspect is present on the document but is not clearly addressed. The updated version of the document will contains a separate session. All the argument are already been discussed and analysed with the partner and the guidelines elements are already considered in the in progress working of the project. Mainly the upgrading will take into account the Siggraph, Silicon Valley and Microsoft missions. The dossier on the UE and G7 related project has been improved (AMICO, CHIO, CIMI, AQUARELLE and VISEUM) and for the application area : SUMS, Z39.5, Lightscape, Flashpix,..
The updated version of the WP1100 document will be delivered in the January month and will better outline the guidelines elements.
The WP 1300 is in progress and the relevant part of the contact can be summarised as follows :
- Meetings & Presentations
- EVA 97 Florence - MOSAIC presentation
- May 29th Kick Off
- June 2nd General Meeting
- June 5th MoU meeting
- June 6th Museums Group
- June 17th MOSAIC presentation in Paris
- June 23td Meeting in Madrid
- June 24th meeting in ABI
- June 27th MOSAIC Presentation in Roma
- June 28th MOSAIC Presentation in Sophia Antipolis
- July 6th /11th IEEE ISIE 97 Conference MOSAIC Presentation
- July 26th /29th Mosaic consortium meeting - Paris
- August 1st - 10th: ACM Siggraph 97 in Los Angeles - annual international conference and exhibition devoted to computer graphics and multimedia.
- August 11th - 13th: meetings in San Francisco with SGI, Xerox and other companies for preliminary discussion of technical and economical agreement linked to WPK 1300, 1400, 1600 and 1700
- August 14th - 16th: meeting in Redmond (Seattle) Microsoft headquarters for preliminary discussion of technical and economical agreement linked to WPK 1300, 1400, 1500 and 2000
- August 17th - 20th: meeting in Toronto (Canada) with Prof. Kim Veltman's equipe devoted to SUMS project application to MOSAIC. SUMS (System for Universal Media Searching) was foreseen as primary "search engine" for MOSAIC Internet applications.
- August 19th/24th ZIG meeting - Copenhagen
- September 1st - 5th ICHIM 97 in Paris - presentation of MOSAIC and partner research activity WP 1300 and WP 1400
- October 11th/14th CIMI Meeting - St. Louis
- October 17th/20th Musonet Meeting - Budapest
- October 17th/20th CEICOM Meeting - Budapest
- October 22th Austrian National Library - Vienna
- October 22th Museum of Archeology - Vienna
The following partners has been involved in the activities and in the meetings of the project:
- New additional partners:
- Centro di Catalogazione e restauro della Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
- Marsilio Editori
- Silicon Graphics
- Provincia di Milano
- Mediartech Roma
- Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona
- LUISS
- National Technical Museum - Praga
- Potential partner adhesions in progress :
- Museo dell'Orto Botanico di Roma
- Museo dello sport
- Telesia - Italprint
- Ente EUR
- Archivio storico della Banca di Roma
- Musa
- Conferenza Episcopale Italiana - CEI
- Associazione tecnico scientifica Piazze Telematiche
- InterActive
- EAA European Association of Arcaheologists Ravenna
- Lightscape
- Associazione Bancaria Italiana
- Fondazione dell'Istituto S.Paolo di Torino
- Hewlett-Packard
- MAE: the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs
- The Conservation Information System - Gotebörg University - Institute of Conservation
- Fondazione Sophia Antipolis
- Ambasciata del Canada
- Museum fur Antike Schiffahrt/Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum , Mainz, De
- Bildarchiv Preussicher Kulturbesitz , De
- Centro de Computacao Grafica, Coimbra, Pt
- CHIN - Canadian Heritage Information Network, Canada
- Museo National de Ciencia Tecnologia, Madrid
- Xerox Park - Palo Alto
- Nautilus , Capri
- Contact and in progress actions :
- Archives & Museums Informatica
- Cambridge Management Group
- Tampereen Teknologiakeskus Oy., Finlandia
- Ludonet Company, Roma
- Prosolvia Clarus - Sweden
- Technical University of Madrid - Dept of Telematic Systems Engineering, Madrid
- University of Leiden, Netherland
- DLR - Deutshe Forshungsanstalt für Luft und Raumfahrt, Göttingen, De
- ENIC - Ecole Nouvelle d' Ingenieurs en Communication, Villenouve d'Ascq , Fr
- Ministry of Culture of Flanders , Brussels , Be
- Virtus Foundation, Sofia , Bulgary
- The Natural Hystory Museum, London, UK
- The National Museum of Science & Industry, London, UK
- Leicestershire Country Council - Museums Arts & Records, Leicester , UK
- Swedish Museum of Natural Hystory, Stockholm , Sweden
- National Museum of Arts and Traditions, Bucharest , Romania
- Benaki Museum - Documentation Dept , Athens , Greece
- Staatliche Museen zu Berlin - Preussicher Kulturbesitz , Berlin , De
- Centre de Conservation du Livre , Arles , Fr
- The Finnish Museum Association, Helsinki , Finland
- National Technological Museum , Praha
- Koninklijk Museum voor Midden Afrika, Tervuren , Be
- International Visual Arts Network Trust - IVAIN , Ipswich-Suffolk , United Kingdom
- Main Actions
- MOSAIC Web - management of contact
- Contacts - Memorandum of Understanding
- Contacts with potential partners like CANON, HP, MICROSOFT, SONY, Silicon Graphics, Barco at international level (Europe or World).
- Contacts with telecommunications organisation in the world (Telecom, Bell,.etc.)
- Contacts with Institutions (Ministry of Culture and Education in all the partner countries, Museums, Galleries, Ministerio della Cultura de Espana, Curia di Milano, ...)
- Contacts with local Italian Institution ( Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Campania,...)
- Contacts with Universities in Europe (University of Warwick, Goteborg University - Institute of Conservation, LUISS, Universities linked to the MOSAIC partners,..)
- Contacts with MultiMedia Institutions and Service Providers (CCG Portugal, CapCom)
- Contacts with the Foundation Sophia Antipolis
- Contacts with UNESCO
- Contacts with EVA
- Contacts with Getty Museum
- Contacts with Deutsche Historische Museum, Berlin
- Contacts with Athena association
- Contacts with VASARI
- Contacts with ABI
- Contacts with CHIN
- Contacts with Kim Veltman G7 - SUM project
- Contacts with G7 Pilot Projects CARDIO representative
- Contacts with Austrian National Library - Vienna
- Contacts with Museum of Archaeology - Vienna
- Contacts with The Joint Cultural Database of Styria - Graz
- Updating the CIMIzit Search & Retrieval interface for cultural heritage to MOSAIC needs.
- Providing links from the MOSAIC homepage to the JR CIMI Z39.50 testbed
The following partners has been involved in the activities and in the meetings of the project:
- Cad Centre Corporation Japan, Mr. Y. Hamano: this company will work to enlarge the institutional partners, to build the Cultural service centre and find economical partners in that area.
- MAE: the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs follows the project and helps the consortium in the relation with institutions of other countries.
- ABI: the Associazione Bancaria Italiana has on study a project to manage all the images of the most important cultural properties of the Italian Banks and to make electronic links. They could agree on linking this activity to Mosaic network.
- The Conservation Information System - Goteborg University - Institute of Conservation
- Infocity project - TEN Telecom: A letter of co-operation has been received and actually is under analysis.
The WP 1400 due activities has been mainly :
- research of references (Bibliography, Internet Address (E-Mail & URLs), Books, Technical Studies, Sociological Studies, Articles, Technological magazines, ..) in order to better define the quality of the services and to classify the user categories.
- interviews with potential users (institutional representatives in each state, museums manager and curator, universities, publisher, ....). Special session of interviews has been planned in Siggraphs (stand Infobyte on which Mosaic will be presented) and ICHIM 97 (stand Arenotech and Infobyte on which MOSAIC will be presented).
- Actually the document contains the description of the major categories of target user ( Institutions/ Museums, Students, Scholars, Researchers, Professors, Managers (Conservatore), Restorator, Artists, Technicians, Publishers, Tourists, Tourist Operators / Agency, Authors, Advertisement, Sponsors, Libraries, Image Agency, Photographers, Merchandise Producers , Art Broker, Interpol / Carabinieri,... ). The first issue of the document will be delivered after the ICHIM manifestation second week of September.
Planning modification has been introduced to improve the feasibility study.
The WP 2000, has been activated in order to obtain some tools and services on line. The main elements will be presented in the internal mid term review at Bologna and a demo area of MOSAIC is ready and in progress.
During this period the activities done are mainly related to the WP 1100, 1300, 1400, 1500 and 2000. WP 1600 and 1700 has been started in the October month.
The WP 1500 document has been completed and the internal review is in progress.
The WP 1600 and 1700 has already started and the delivery date foreseen into the planning will be respected.
The WP 2000 activities are in progress. A first configuration of the demo CSC is scheduled in CINECA during the internal mid term review meeting. Mainly the done activities are related to the internal databases creation, the gateway and search engine, the virtual exhibitor, the archaeological virtual museums, the basic CSC's services and the on line browser.
In general the delay due to the start-up phase is contained and will be globally reduced by the anticipation of the WP 2000 (at the beginning foreseen to start at T0+8). The next deliveries are foreseen in scheduling:
| WP's | Responsible Partner of activity and Deliverables |
| 1 - WP1100
Survey on the state of the art Responsible: DISET: T0 -> T0+1 Milestones:
|
Deliverables:
|
| 2 - WP1200
Market Plan Responsible:
Milestones:
|
Deliverables:
|
| 1 - WP1300
Partner Research and Economical Agreement Definition Responsible:
Milestones:
|
Deliverables:
|
| 1 - WP1400
Target User Profile Definition Responsible:
Milestones:
|
Deliverables:
|
| 2 - WP1500
Requirements, Tools, Service Centers, Application Responsible :
Milestones :
|
Deliverables:
|
| 3 - WP1600
Study for the Reuse of existing Application into the Defined Architecture Responsible:
Milestones: none |
Deliverables:
|
| 3 - WP1700
Architecture Definition and tools definition Responsible:
Milestones:
|
Deliverables:
|
| 4 - WP1800
Dissemination of results Responsible:
Milestones:
|
Deliverables:
|
| 0 - WP1900
Management of the MOSAIC project for the feasibility study Responsible:
Milestones:
|
Deliverables:
|
| 4 - WP2000
CSC model demonstrator Responsible:
Milestones:
|
Deliverables:
|
4. COST STATEMENT
The annex B contains all the Consortium cost statement related to the period May - October 1997.
5. ANNEX A: MOSAIC Action Items List
| Ref.: | Orig. Date & Ref.: |
Action Short Description | Responsible | Expected date: | Status |
| A0001 | Meeting of Paris 28th July 1997 | produce internal monthly progress report to be sent at BDR at the end of each month | all partner | 1st September 1997 | open |
| A0002 | WP 1200 planning | define the document layout and activate the joint team for the WP 1200 | BDR | 20th August 1997 | closed |
| A0003 | WP 1500 planning | define the document layout and activate the joint team for the WP 1500 | INFOBYTE | 20th August 1997 | closed |
| A0004 | September 97 meeting | define the detailed agenda and organise the technical and dissemination meeting | DISET | 1st of September 1997 | closed |
| A0005 | October 97 meeting | define the detailed agenda and organise the technical and dissemination meeting | ARENOTECH | 1st October 1997 | closed |
| A0006 | mid term review meeting | define with UE commission the expected date. | BDR | 10th January 1998 | open |
| A0007 | November meeting - internal mid term review | define the agenda and organise the technical and dissemination meeting | CINECA | 1st November 1997 | open |
| A0008 | December meeting | define the agenda and organise the technical and dissemination meeting | JRC | 1st December 1997 | open |
| A0009 | mosaic web | translate the document in French language | ARENOTECH | September 1997 | closed |
| A0010 | mosaic web | translate the document in German and Spanish language | ZGDV | September 1997 | closed |
| A0011 | mosaic tape | The MOSAIC tape is under preparation by BDR. Contribution are expected in U-MATIC tape. | all partner | 1st September 1997 | closed |
| A0012 | mosaic web | activate the web in Italian language | CINECA | September 1997 | closed |
| A0013 | MOSAIC LOGO | prepare the MOSAIC suggested logos and select the final logo from a short list. | all partner | 27th July 1997 | closed |
| A0014 | payment from UE | distribute percentage of founding to the partner | BDR | 27th July 1997 | closed |
| A0015 | WP 1100 upgrading of the document | predispose the upgrading of the WP 1100 document | DISET | middle of January 1998 | open |
| A0016 | WP 1600 TN first issue | manage the WP activities | JRC | end of January 1998 | open |
| A0017 | WP 1700 document first issue | manage the WP activities | INFOBYTE | end of January 1998 | open |
| A0018 |
6.ANNEX B: COST Statement
7. ANNEX C: PLANNING - (next page)
