TASK Nr. 3

· Information retrieval from sites where information are collected in a structured manner, basing selection criteria on users needs. Entry level technological status for large distributed home services.

· Study of publications in public databases, in the internet, in journals, in projects, of research institutes etc. All information will cover a wide range of cultural heritage sector to generate a state-of-the-art-description of applications technologies in europe;

· Define recommendation and guidelines for the system.

 

· DISET

 

 

 

 

· JRC

 

 

 

 

· ARENOTHEC

DISET 0.5

JRC 0.5

ARENOTHEC 0.5

ZGDV 0.2

Total Man Months: 1.7

Physical indicators:

Technological and interoperability guidelines

 

Financial indicators:

· State of the art technical note

· Recommendation for the architecture

TASK Nr. 4

· Integrate the result of the project into an overall plan for the deployment and operations of the applications/services. Demonstrate the commercial and financial viability (internal rate of return) of deploying the applications/services.

· Identify the impact of telecommunications costs on the provision of the applications/services as well as other critical business factors such as property rights, regulatory issues, availability of basic networks or generic services.

· Describe how the overall project is planned to be financed i.e. through a combination of private and public funds such as equity, loans, grants, promoter’s own funds, cash from operations and other financial instruments.

· BDR

 

 

 

 

· ARENOTHEC

 

 

 

 

· BDR

BDR 3

ARENOTHEC 1.1

DISET 2.5

INFOBYTE 1

CINECA 0.4

Total Man Months: 8

Physical indicators:

Financial indicators:

Economical feasibility assessment

· Business plan document

T0+12 Assessment on feasibility study

TASK Nr. 5

· Select partners for enlarge the institutional partners, the center services, the economical sponsors, the industrial producers

 

· Organize workshop and meeting to explain the mosaic objectives and to relieve preliminary feedback

 

· Define the mutual agreement guidelines in order to activate the cultural heritage product interchange

· DISET

 

 

 

· ARENOTHEC

 

 

 

· BDR

DISET 3.5

ARENOTHEC 2

INFOBYTE 1.5

BDR 1.9

ZGDV 1

CINECA 0.5

JRC  0.5

Total Man Months: 10.9

Physical indicators:

Number of partners

 

Financial indicators:

Number of promoters

· Participation letters list updated

· Test mutual agreement contract ready to be used during the deployment

T0+12 Assessment of feasibility study

TASK Nr. 6

· Identification of keyplayers (users, suppliers, consultants, research institutions etc.) and application segments on the cultural heritage context. Educational and social objectives guidelines definition. Interviews with the opinion leaders. Identify the socio-economic and the benefits of the proposed services.

· Description of the competitive forces that determine the market for cultural heritage (suppliers and potential suppliers; buyers and users; applications and threat of substitute products). Define the user expectations on the cultural heritage field (level of image quality, user workstation bandwidth,..)

· ARENOTHEC

 

 

 

 

 

 

· INFOBYTE

 

ARENOTHEC 3.5

INFOBYTE 3

Total Man Months: 6.5

Physical indicators:

Financial indicators:

Market application area individuation

· Target user profile specification

TASK Nr. 7

define, analyse and outline the following items:

· interoperability and efficient information interchange amongst different related organisation in Europe; create a multimedia trans-European distributed data base; propose methods and tools in cultural heritage information management by using existing standards (Z39.50);

· development of a trans-European framework for 'virtual' access to museums, art galleries and similar ; tutorial tours in digital museums;

· network features and standards to access information both from the museum and directly from home; EURO-ISDN configuration to create a trans-European network of "Cultural Heritage Information Providers" in order to sell high quality documents of objects (high quality color prints, 3d digital or solid models)

· interface or mechanisms to obtain a geographical or historical path or map related to an author or movement ; network minimal configuration to offers not only 2d low and high resolution images but also movie-maps, 3d models, VR experiences, digital animation and reconstruction (archaeology, not yet completed, totally or partially destroyed work of art)

· user interface in order to create a 'virtual' exhibitions not related to the real one (collection of disseminated work of art, etc). hyper-media navigation and surfing trough different kind of work of art and information (architecture, sculpture, paintings, frescos etc.)

· JRC

 

 

 

 

· ARENOTHEC

 

 

· DISET

 

 

 

 

 

· ZGDV

 

 

 

 

 

· INFOBYTE

BDR 1

JRC 2

ARENOTHEC 3.1

ZGDV 2

DISET 3

INFOBYTE 2

CINECA 0.5

Total Man Months: 13.6

Physical indicators:

Respect of European standard requirements

 

 

Financial indicators:

· Requirements definition document

T0 + 6 Requirements review

TASK Nr. 8

· Analysis of available cultural heritage products and prototypes.

· Select a set of applications to be adapted to the Mosaic architecture

· Create an architecture tools coverage matrix

· Individuate area on which develop new application and define the CSC model guidlines for the demostrator

· ARENOTHEC

 

· ZGDV

 

 

· JRC

 

· INFOBYTE

BDR 1.5

JRC 1.5

ARENOTHEC 1.9

DISET 3.2

INFOBYTE 1

Total Man Months: 9.1

Physical indicators:

Cultural heritage application map

Financial indicators:

Cultural heritage application prices list

· Technical note on application reuse

TASK Nr. 10

· To define the required quality of services in order to:

- estimate the service center equipments

- estimate the response time required for different services and media material

- evaluate and define the CSC functions (server functional architecture)

- describe the user functional layer

· Define the HW and SW configuration for service center and Target User areas taking into account the:

- compatibility with existing infrastructure performance requirements

- user platform and CSC configuration (server phisycal architecture)

- network services layers and associated costs

· Individuate and describe the SW areas covered by off-the-shelf products. Individuate and define the integration layer to be developed and the configuration/installation activity to be done.

· INFOBYTE

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

· DISET

 

 

 

 

 

 

· JRC

 

 

 

ZGDV 1

DISET 3.4

INFOBYTE 2

JRC 0.5

Total Man Months: 6.9

Physical indicators:

CSC functional and physical description

Financial indicators:

Infrastructures and equipment estimation cost

· Architectural Document

TASK Nr. 11

Create and manage :

· a virtual place where the debate about different ways to achieve a result a different point of view will be held; a direct line between inter-national operators and national and international institutions (public administration, national and international standards institutes, technical commissions);

· a virtual corner where to announce in real-time cultural performances like symposiums, conferences, seminars, courses, meetings making available in electronic source format abstracts, proceedings, grey paper; a virtual Conferences and Forum;

· a real-time observatory of European market and European research results; a virtual interface between different worlds like research, culture, industry and market; a shortcut to access data-base and information services

· DISET

 

 

 

 

· ARENOTHEC

 

 

 

 

· CINECA

 

 

 

BDR 1.5

JRC 1.5

ARENOTHEC 1

ZGDV 1

DISET 3.5

INFOBYTE 1.2

CINECA 0.4

Total Man Months: 10.1

Physical indicators:

Feedback on demo dissemination

 

Financial indicators:

Number of access to the cultural network

· Workshops, electronic debates, feedback collection book

 

T0+12 Assessment of feasibility study

TASK Nr. 13

· To carry out the management activities foreseen in the Management Proposal, such as:

progress monitoring and control

project reporting and reviews

meetings management

documentation management

coordinate the Contractors activities and schedules

to manage the contractual interface to the Commission

· BDR

 

 

 

 

 

 

BDR 8

Total Man Months: 8

Physical indicators:

Respect of planned milestones

 

 

Financial indicators:

· Progress reports

· Final report

T0+12 Assessment of feasibility study

TASK Nr.

Create and manage :

· a CSC kernel of functions mainly based on the network infrastructure (EURO-ISDN);

· integration and data interoperability (local and remote catalogues and retrieval basic services )

· a cultural on line browser for make available the access to the cultural services

· virtual exibitor

 

 

· CINECA

 

 

 

· JRC

 

 

· DISET

 

· INFOBYTE

 

BDR 1.4

JRC 2.6

ARENOTHEC 1.4

ZGDV 1.5

DISET 2.3

INFOBYTE 2.2

CINECA 1.6

Total Man Months: 13

Physical indicators:

Feedback on demo

Financial indicators:

Cost element linked to the model

· CSC model demonstrator running

T0+12 Assessment of feasibility study