1. Summary

2. Management

3. Technical

4. Situation of Current Work Packages

5. CONTRACTUAL ISSUES

6. ANNEX A : MOSAIC Action Items List

7. ANNEX B : DISSEMINATION PLAN

8. ANNEX C : PLANNING - (next page)

1. Summary

The document describes the main activities in MOSAIC done by Contractors and Participating Organisation during the period of February until April 1998.

2. Management

The main management activities performed have been:

• contractual issues clarification
• web site in progress upgrading and management
• working meeting organisation:
• 16 February meeting in Paris
• 17-18 March meeting in Darmstadt
• 20-21 April meeting in Rome
• 28 April Annual Project Report - meeting in Bruxelles
• secretary project organisation

All the MOSAIC documents produced till now have been inserted on the web both in HTML and .doc formats (delivered versions, summaries and drafts). At the present the documents on the web are: Work Package 1100: SURVEY on the STATE of the ART, Work Package 1100 (SUMMARY): SURVEY on the STATE of the ART Summary, Work Package 1200 (DRAFT): Market Plan, Work Package 1300 (DRAFT): Partner Research and Economical Agreement Definition, Work Package 1400: Target Users Profile Specifications, Work Package 1400 (SUMMARY): Target Users Profile Specifications Summary, Work Package 1500: Requirements Definition Document, Work Package 1500 (SUMMARY): Requirements Definition Summary, Work Package 1600 : Technical note on Application Reuse, Work Package 1600 (SUMMARY) Technical note on Application Reuse, Work Package 1700 : Architectural Document, Work Package 1700 (SUMMARY) Architectural Document, Work Package 1800 (DRAFT): Dissemination of Results.

The following Meetings and Conferences have been held:

• February 11^th MOSAIC presentation c/o ABI – Roma
• February 12-14^th Workshop Illumination - Ravenna
• February 25^th – Mar 1^st - BIT - Borsa Internazionale del Turismo - Milano
• March 4-7^th - Imagina - Montecarlo
• March 10^th - ICOM-Workshop for "Digital Realization of Images in Museums" - Vienna
• March 23-28^th - EVA '98 - Firenze
• March 24-25^th CEBIT - Hannover
• March 25-27^th - BITE – Bringing Information Technology to Education - Maastricht
• March 25-28^th - CAA98 – Computer Applications In Archaeology - Barcelona
• March 26-29^th Mediartech - Firenze
• April 3-6^th – Archeoland ’98 - Ferrara
• April 3-7^th - FutureShow - Bologna
• April 14-18^th - World Wide Conference – Brisbane
• April 16-18^th Round Tables – Napoli / Procida
• April 19-20^th - MSC - Kuala Lumpur
• April 23-24^th – Auf dem Weg zur Digitelen Bibliothek - Gottingen
• April 27-29^th - Euro-Mediterranean Network Cooperation Workshop - Cairo

The following contacts has been realised:

• Graphische Sammlung Albertina – Wien
• La Citè des Sciences – Paris
• CMM Centro Multi Mediale - Terni
• CRYO - Paris
• EDF – Electricitè de France - Paris
• Istituto Francofono - Paris
• MDA Setting Standards – Oxfordshire
• MSC Malaysian Super Corridor – Kuala Lumpur
• OCLC Online Computer Library Center – Ohio
• Regione Toscana - Firenze
• Smithsonian Institution – Washington
• SMN Statens Museumsnævn – Copenhagen
• Sunrise Research Laboratory - Melbourne
• W3C World Wide Web Consortium – Endo Fujisawa
• Università di Pisa
• Università di Udine – Corso di Laurea in Beni Culturali
• Università di Catania
• GEIRA Project – Portugal
• Donald Sanders Learning Site Project – USA
• SUN – Gottingen
• IHS Technologies – Gottingen
• IntraWeb Information Technologies GmbH – Gottingen
• Institut fur Museumskunde - Berlin

3. Technical

WP 1100. Closed

WP 1200. In progress. ABC method will be used. ABC is a consistent, disciplined process that is necessary to the functional process improvement effort in both an analytical and evaluation role. It is also a process that requires professional judgement and creativity when applied to a transitional business process model. This creativity does not invalidate the basic integrity of the idea, but is rather a necessity to bridge the gap from the traditional accounting data to the new process methodology. This idea will become more evident when ABC is compared to the traditional methods of costing. Although ABC is still an evolving discipline, it offers great advantages over these more traditional methods. Although evolving, ABC is nevertheless applied with sound accounting principles to translate cost data and to provide a reliable information source upon which to base managerial decisions.

Most current established accounting systems normally capture and distribute resource costs by one of the following methods:

• Organisational element
• Budgetary account
• Traditional cost accounting with direct and indirect cost allocation

Each of these methodologies has advantages and disadvantages which have met the past needs of the organisation. Yet, every one of them fails to meet the full requirement for management information that occurs as the result of a redesign of the organisation or any part of the organisation. ABC is a more representative distribution of resource use since the cost allocations are based on the direct cost drivers inherent in each of the work activities that make up the organisational structure. ABC applies resource use directly to the output products and services based on the actual work activities of the process that produces the output with limited arbitrary allocations of indirect or overhead costs.

WP 1300. Ongoing partner research and MOSAIC presentation. Will be extended for six months

WP 1400. Closed

WP 1500. Closed

WP 1600. Closed

WP 1700. Closed

WP 1800. Ongoing Dissemination Activities. An extended plan for the dissemination phase is presented in annex..
The period considered is until October 31^st .

WP 2000. A detailed configuration of the demo service centre has been provided in the WP 1600 document. New item has been added in the web Demos section. Cultural on line browser is activated. Metadabase data population is in progress.

All deliverable has been reviewed by the Annual Review Commission. The detailed list of recommendation, mainly addressed to the WP 1200 deliverable, will be taken into account in the project extension phase.

Planning: has been reviewed on the basis of the six months extension

The following table illustrates a synthesis of the work in progress.

5. CONTRACTUAL ISSUES

Some modifications has been applied:

• Arenotech’s activities has been reviewed, actually the Arenotech participation is limited to the WP 1300 and WP 1800.
• Planning and deliverables has been updated on six months delay basis

Open issues:

• next cost statement date
• contract formal revision after Arenotech and delay modifications

(updated: 30/04/98)

7. ANNEX B : DISSEMINATION PLAN