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TITLE : Annual Project Review Report (APRR) |
WRITTEN BY : M.Borghi
SUMMARY : MOSAIC activities (starting from May 1997 until 1 March 1998) The document describes the main activities in MOSAIC done by Contractors and Participating Organisation during the period of May 1997 until the first March 1998. |
No part of this document can be reproduced, in any form, or by any means, prior to written authorisation of the
MOSAIC Consortium
Table of Contents
1. Self-assessment of work done during the reporting period.
2. Nature of the project's future work. Proposed changes to plan, if appropriate.
3. Expectations for implementation and deployment at the end of feasibility study.
Contract N.
45527 Project Acronym: MOSAICProject title : Museum Over States And vIrtual Culture
Project Coordinator :
Name Mr. Maurizio Borghi
Department Area Legale e Affari Generali / Tecnologie di Comunicazione
Organisation : Banca di Roma S.p.A.
Address Via dell’Umiltà, 43
Country- Code City 00187 - RomaTelephone: +39 6 6700 8944
E-mail mosaic@bancaroma.itList of Partners:
Organisation Role Country Banca di Roma s.p.a -BDR Coordinator established in Italy Joanneum Research -
Forshungsgesellschaft mbH - JRCContractor established in Austria Zentrum fur Graphische
DatenVerarbeitung e.V - ZGDVContractor established in Germany Cineca - Consorzio Interuniversitario
per la Gestione Del Centro di Calcolo
Elettronico dell'Italia Nord Occidentale
CINECAContractor established in Italy Politecnico di Milano, DIP.ISET
DISETContractor established in Italy Infobyte s.p.a - INFOBYTE Contractor established in Italy ARENOTECH Participating Organisation established in France
Date 27th March 1998
Form SA - Project Self-assessment
Project Acronym MOSAIC Contract N.
45527Project Title: Museum Over States And vIrtual Culture
Project Coordinator : Maurizio Borghi Signed............................. Date:
1. Self-assessment of work done during the reporting period
The Consortium has discovered a strong expectation from the cultural world (from different players in the cultural heritage). Following the line of MOU, we found many potential partners which are very interested as industry in sponsoring, institutional organizations for content provision, users (customers) interested in access to the content promoting artistic goods (large demand from owners of artistic goods), etc.…
Technology Infrastructure are available, but a part of the content is still „missing". A facilitation of creating and managing new content is necessary. We will achieve it by increasing the capability to manage with institutional organizations. Shift of paradigm from centralized to cooperative (decentralized) approach - network aspect.
The creation of new areas and economic flows around the valorization of cultural heritage could determine an anomalous and opposing trend phenomenon. In this case there is the possibility that the introduction of new value added technologies could increase employment instead of reducing it (something that occurs almost everywhere in other applicational sectors).
For this reason we believe that MOSAIC by creating new services, can give the opportunity for new jobs.
A relevant part of the interlocutors, contacted during the workshops, have already demonstrated a concrete attention to the MOSAIC project. The list of the additional partners is the following :
Austria
England
France
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Sweden
Spain
Europe
Rest of the World
To confirm the interest created by the MOSAIC project, a particular honor has been given to MOSAIC for its innovative aspect. The Smithsonian Institute has awarded a prize to MOSAIC for 1998. The official prize giving will take place on April 6 1998. Apart for the obvious value of this award, this acknowledgment also represents an interesting sign of the value added that projects backed by the European Commission can represent throughout the world.
MOSAIC is aimed towards a global market and has to place its attention on users distributed world-wide.
The rapid activation of this direction is conceived on a logical basis of this type: detection of a vast network of agents and a world-wide distribution (EU, G7, etc.) capable of guaranteeing the retrieval of information on the patrimonial cultural (depository countries) and able to divulge them (user and promotional countries). Combine these agents to agencies, corporations, institutions and foundations capable of sustaining the system's start-up.
This first operational kernel is based on the partner’s group present in this proposal, but it will be amplified during the project evolution. Therefore, the objective is that of retracing the dissemination process which in the recent past occurred in the technological context with the Internet phenomenon.
The ulterior elements on which MOSAIC pay attention are the following:
The make-up of a cultural service centers that has within an organised group of people responsible for the promotion of a single theme or more cultural themes seems to be the right answer for this request. All of these operations are idealised within a consolidated technology EURO-ISDN and INTERNET WEB.
The success of the dissemination depends on some important factors:
the capacity to arouse interest
the capacity to collect the users' expectations
the capacity to offer an added value
the simplicity with which information is transferred
all of this aspect has been analyzed and the a first feedback on the dissemination phase WP 1800 that is in progress.
An analysis in this sense serves to sustain the economic projections and, therefore, the market plan and serves to avoid a non-fulfillment of the market's expectations.
1.1 Justification of delay
In order to understand the reasons behind the delay of a such a complex project one has first underline the primary spirit of MOSAIC.
We are basing our work on the existing activities to improve the quality in presenting added value services (e.g. RAMA or Aquarelle are technical projects) MOSAIC is not a technical approach, MOSAIC will meet the expectation of the users in the 3rd millennium in the area of Cultural Heritage, MOSAIC has the intention to bring the standards to the market - enabling the setup of Trans-European cooperation networks, MOSAIC builds a starting point for a global framework (which is outlined for the 5th Framework program) in the area of Libraries, Museums and Archives.
MOSAIC is middleware between users and providers (content and solution) with the aim to offer solutions for generic services for the users as well as for the providers (we have re-evaluated a lot of other International activities in the Cultural Heritage area).
From a technical point of view we focused our attention to easily manage electronic cultural heritage access using distributed databases which are only enabled using the existing standards.
MOSAIC tries to use everything that exists as regards standards and applicational products in order to satisfy the necessity of value added services for users.
Therefore the basic element is to underline the applicational and commercial context in which one is working and not supply an information technology solution for such a complex subject.
Consequently one has to deeply study and pay attention particularly on the analysis of the desiderata and on feedback from potential users at world level.
Therefore due to the later the delay in the projects have been:
Cause of the large interest of the public on MOSAIC topic, and for this reason trying to follow the requests of the users, we have prepared a first demonstrator which causes much more effort than expected. This is the main reason for the delay and the cause of our demand to postpone the first phase.
We did not expect to find a so high level of complexity (3 levels - technical, application, human). We like to define it as a larger challenge than expected before (for example the definition of a CSC team which is not only technical oriented).
1.2 Quality
The quality subject-matter is a courtesy of the information contents tied with the cultural patrimony and is of particular importance. One of the elements that today makes it difficult for a correct divulgation of the contents of the complex context as that of culture. This point has above all an organisational value. In fact, today the products developed in some countries are not correctly validated by users of receiving countries and this often causes problems of misunderstanding in the initial phase of the system.
The principal elements in this sense are:
These functions that we hold indispensable must be done by an editorial office available in each cultural service center capable of revising contents of translations of the quality products made in other countries of a non mother tongue to finally guarantee the global accuracy and the quality of the product that circulates in the Mosaic system.
Furthermore, having placed our attention on the value added service issue, quality is equal also to efficiency and client satisfaction. Therefore quality becomes a distributed concept which in a transversal way effects all the organizational and functional elements: engineering of the available spaces for the general public, facility in the use of the applications, attention to particular users (disabled, children, ...).
Clearly quality also becomes an important aspect in investment costs. Therefore the quality element has been placed in the light and has been made tangible as far as requirements and guidelines are concerned. As far as the implementation of the project is concerned one has to obviously apply a trade-off between level of quality and availability of investments. However it is not possible to go under a certain level. Thus MOSAIC can represent also the basic reference to predispose minimal level services.
2. Nature of the project's future work. Proposed changes to plan, if appropriate.
The planning, annexed to this document and already presented into the proposal, illustrates how we intend to proceed into the project. Main activities that we intend refine during the delayed period before to start the next phase are:
In our intention the planned activities, for the next project phase, are the following:
Validation and Verification phase
3. Expectations for implementation and deployment at the end of feasibility study.
Considering the fact that so far perspectives and expectations have been created in a large number of potential partners, we believe that there is a need of predisposing to strengthen the consistency of the project in a better defined contractual framework (trial agreement phase).
The commercial diffused and distributed agreements are the basic element in the construction of the MOSAIC network as well as being the motor capable of stimulating and increasing the energies around the valorization of cultural heritage.
The main objectives are:
This direction cannot be omitted from structures capable of sustaining the initial payment of the system.
In the second phase when the interchangeable mechanisms of information have been edited, the political system launched and the exercise tariffs have been indicated (rent, service cost, locations and fees, etc.) through a correct and concrete market plan, the system will be able to proceed on its own account.
Taking into consideration the enormous contents of information, we believe that the volume of activities correlated with the cultural service centers cannot help but grow, consequently, feed itself new investments and new working opportunities.
Considering the vast cultural patrimony existing in the European States and their actual state of accessibility, the dissemination and cultural promotional aspects of this patrimony assume a double value :
Around the cultural patrimony, therefore, one can detect the vital elements of a new horizon full of social - economic aspects.
The present European patrimony lies nearly asleep in a barely accessible context.
It has been noticed that the volume of world-wide visitors to an artwork inevitably could not see at same time a work of art or could not understand the contents. It’s, therefore, important to stimulate curiosity.
The visitor maintaining its interest awake through particular occasions, specific events that activate the debate. It’s absolutely not true that the virtual visitor’s interest in observing artwork the real contest ceases. However, he/she is normally curious and visually the effects of a virtual visit promote the increase of real visits and the increase of interest in products derived from culture.
We believe the induced unlearned industry and operative tied to the cultural patrimony is very long below its potential level.
This vital element of interest can not see the European Community detached and distracted and in a passive waiting phase but must see the Community structures sensible and extremely ready in the initiative in this area.
|
WP number |
description |
status |
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WP 1100 |
Survey of the "state of the art" |
100% |
|
WP 1200 |
Market plan |
35% |
|
WP 1300 |
Partner search and economical agreement definition |
75% |
|
WP 1400 |
Target User profile definition |
100% |
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WP 1500 |
Requirements definition, tools, service centers, application |
100% |
|
WP 1600 |
Study for the reuse of existing applications into the defined architecture |
90% |
|
WP 1700 |
Architecture definition and tools definition |
85% |
|
WP 1800 |
Dissemination of results |
10% |
|
WP 1900 |
Management |
78% |
|
WP 2000 |
CSC model demonstrator |
57% |
The table presented in the following paragraph illustrated the delayed delivery for each workpackages.
|
WP number |
description |
Expected date |
Delay |
|
WP 1100 |
Survey of the "state of the art" |
To+1 |
3 ** |
|
WP 1200 |
Market plan |
To+10 |
(*) |
|
WP 1300 |
Partner search and economical agreement definition |
To+12 |
(*) |
|
WP 1400 |
Target User profile definition |
To+4 |
1 |
|
WP 1500 |
Requirements definition, tools, service centers, application |
To+6 |
1 |
|
WP 1600 |
Study for the reuse of existing applications into the defined architecture |
To+9 |
1,2 |
|
WP 1700 |
Architecture definition and tools definition |
To+9 |
1,4 |
|
WP 1800 |
Dissemination of results |
To+12 |
6 (!) |
|
WP 1900 |
Management |
To+12 |
(*) |
|
WP 2000 |
CSC model demonstrator (this WP start-up has been anticipated) |
To+12 |
(*) |
To = beginning of the project (May 1st 1997)
** Delivered on time, update forecast after six months depending on International major events in IT and CH field
(*) related to the end of WP 1800 for producing the final assessment and include the feedback of the users.
(!) depending of the national and International major events in the Cultural Heritage field.
Major reason for the delay are :
|
WP’s |
Responsible Partner of activity and Deliverables |
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1 - WP1100 Milestones : |
Deliverables :
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2 - WP1200 Market Plan Responsible : Milestones : |
Deliverables :
|
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1 - WP1300 Partner Research and Economical Agreement Definition Responsible : Milestones : Assessment on feasibility study |
Deliverables :
|
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1 - WP1400 Target User Profile Definition Responsible : Milestones : |
Deliverables :
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2 - WP1500 Requirements, Tools, Service Centers, Application Responsible : Milestones : |
Deliverables :
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3 - WP1600 Study for the Reuse of existing Application into the Defined Architecture Responsible : Milestones : none |
Deliverables :
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3 - WP1700 Architecture Definition and tools definition Responsible : Milestones : |
Deliverables :
|
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4 - WP1800 Dissemination of results Responsible : Milestones : |
Deliverables :
|
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0 - WP1900 Management of the MOSAIC project for the feasibility study Responsible : |
Deliverables :
|
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4 - WP2000 CSC model demonstrator Responsible : Milestones : |
Deliverables :
|
Are project objectives
being met? Yes
No comments Is work done within the project budget? Yes
Major achievements within reporting period :
| Part A. | Summary of the work undertaken |
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A.1 | Objectives of the project |
It is easy to understand that, if we start to consider which were the original goals of MOSAIC on a ISDN network, we need to refine the identified model to create a stable interaction among the actors of the project. We need to pass through a trial phase in which relationships has to be tested and consolidated to identified the feasibility of the project in all his details.
This means that we have to stress cooperation and integration activities especially among new partners, with new demos on different sites all over the world.
For this reason we think that an extension of the current contract is strongly recommended with same budget and with a new phase of validation as suggested in the other paragraph. New coming from this last phase will consolidate the expected goals for the project.
A very interesting results of this first phase have been:
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The objective is to establish a technical, operation and commercial basis for trans-European electronic access which ensures:
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| A.2 | Work done |
The work done is articulated in many WPs with a specific and propaedeutic function. The contributions and work will have be placed as a summary in the project’s financial plan. The following activities took place during this period:
WP 1100. The executive summary and document of the WP 1100 has been delivered. Main EC remarks outlined in the mid term review meeting in Brussels has been taken in consideration. In the document a survey of the present status of the art is included; there are also guidelines and technical indications to be considered for other documents.
WP 1200. In progress. To complete this WP we need in advance to deliver results of WP 1600 and WP 1700 that contain economical specification for the Service Centers actuation.
WP 1300. Ongoing partner research and MOSAIC presentation. The in progress agreements with the major vendors have been outlined (Microsoft, HP, Apple, Silicon Graphics, 3M Imation, Italtel...), and the same in reference to major content providers and partners in dissemination ( ABI, MAE, CHIN, Fondazione SanPaolo, Regione Friuli, VG...). The Mosaic additional partner list is increasing (see the Web MOSAIC in the additional partner area.
The following Meetings and Conferences have been held:
The following contacts has been realised:
WP1400. The summarie of WP 1400 (User Target Profile Definition) has been produced and delivered. The document include the synthesis of target commodities generated by MOSAIC and main needs that will be satisfied.
The performed activities are mainly :
Meetings & Presentations :
Interviews and contacts with :
The following potential or additional partners has been involved in the interviews and in the meetings:
WP 1500: The document is attached. During this activity the user requirements presented in WP 1400 and the guidelines of WP 1100 were taken into account and the logical and functional architecture of the MOSAIC system was studied. At this point all the logical areas were expressed as system requirements.
WP 1600. The document is attached. All the existing or adaptable SW environments for the sector and MOSAIC necessities were studied. The existing SW packages and the target reference platforms made up a operational constraint for the WP 1700 document. Lastly, the guidelines of the demo platform which have been and will be taken into consideration in the WP 2000 activities were described.
WP 1700. The document contains and describes the physical architecture of the MOSAIC service center. The objective of this document is to define a budgetary reference base for WP 1800. Based on the logical architecture defined in WP 1500 on the study of surveys for existing tools and applications, the technological segments of the physical architecture were pointed out and their main HW and SW components described.
WP1800: Ongoing Dissemination Activities. A plan for the dissemination plan has been presented and is in progress.
WP 1900 - The main management activities performed have been:
all project and communication activities have been managed with web MOSAIC tools; this Internet site has been designed to organize and manage high number of partners well distributed all over the world.
This web site includes an information section easy and well understandable by all Internet users; a forum section is also active on the subject of cultural wealth valorisation. This site is in five languages of the EU: English, Italian, French, German, Spanish.
All the MOSAIC documents produced till now have been inserted on the web both in HTML and .doc formats.
WP 2000 has been anticipated in order to activated the demo center of Bologna starting from the November month. The first feeling on the activated services is in line with the expectations. A detailed configuration of the demo service center is described in the WP 1600 document. New item has been added in the Demos section of the web like "3D tools on the web", "IPR Intellectual Property Rights", "Computing and Networking Applied to Cultural Heritage", Cultural on line Browser, ..
Specific demo has been realised and are already active in the MOSAIC web, DEMO area.
Participants' Contribution Organisation, Role, Workpackages involved in Budget (ECU), Man-months used so far, Man-months planned until contract end, Man-months Total in the contract:
| Partner/Role |
BDR CO |
DISET CT |
IBY CT |
JRC CT |
CINECA CT |
ZGDV CT |
ARENOTECH PO |
TOTAL M/M in the project | TOTAL* M/M in the contract | |||||||
| WP |
M/M used |
M/M To be used |
M/M used |
M/M To be used |
M/M used |
M/M To be used |
M/M used |
M/M To be used |
M/M used |
M/M To be used |
M/M used |
M/M To be used |
M/M used |
M/M To be used |
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| WP 1100 |
|
|
2,2 |
|
|
|
0,5 |
|
|
|
0,85 |
|
0,7 |
|
2,25 |
1,7 |
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WP 1200 |
1,2 |
1,8 |
1,6 |
1 |
0,4 |
2,8 |
|
|
|
0,4 |
|
|
0,65 |
|
9,75 |
8 |
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WP 1300 |
1,2 |
0,7 |
6,3 |
1,1 |
1,45 |
1 |
0,3 |
0,2 |
0,3 |
0,2 |
1,15 |
0,7 |
1,7 |
1 |
13,4 |
10,9 |
|
WP 1400 |
|
|
|
|
4,45 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
2,4 |
|
6,85 |
6,5 |
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WP 1500 |
1 |
|
3,6 |
|
2,7 |
|
1,9 |
0,1 |
0,5 |
|
4,15 |
|
2,8 |
|
16,15 |
13,6 |
|
WP 1600 |
1,2 |
0,3 |
2,5 |
0,5 |
2,4 |
0,9 |
1 |
0,5 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,5 |
9,1 |
|
WP 1700 |
|
|
2,8 |
0,6 |
2,5 |
1,5 |
0,25 |
0,25 |
|
|
1,95 |
0,45 |
|
|
10,3 |
6,9 |
|
WP 1800 |
0,2 |
1,3 |
1,1 |
2,4 |
0,4 |
1,6 |
0,3 |
1,2 |
0,1 |
0,3 |
0,85 |
1,2 |
0,1 |
0,9 |
11,95 |
10,1 |
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WP 1900 |
6 |
2 |
|
|
0,6 |
1 |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
9,6 |
8 |
|
WP 2000 |
0,3 |
1,1 |
0,8 |
2,2 |
3,6 |
1,4 |
0,6 |
2 |
0,6 |
1 |
2,1 |
1,3 |
|
|
16,3 |
13 |
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TOTAL |
11,1 |
7,2 |
20,9 |
7,8 |
18,5 |
10 |
4,85 |
4,25 |
1,5 |
1,9 |
11,05 |
3,65 |
8,35 |
1,9 |
106,4 |
87,8 |
*
referred to the original contract
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Project's Activities, Work package Deliverables:
| WP’s | Deliverables |
| 1 - WP1100Survey on the state of the art |
Deliverables :
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2 - WP1200 Market Plan |
Deliverables :
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1 - WP1300 Partner Research and Economical Agreement Definition |
Deliverables :
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1 - WP1400 Target User Profile Definition |
Deliverables :
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2 - WP1500 Requirements, Tools, Service Centers, Application |
Deliverables :
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3 - WP1600 Study for the Reuse of existing Application into the Defined Architecture |
Deliverables :
|
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3 - WP1700 Architecture Definition and tools definition |
Deliverables :
|
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4 - WP1800 Dissemination of results |
Deliverables :
|
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0 - WP1900 Management of the MOSAIC project for the feasibility study |
Deliverables :
|
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4 - WP2000 CSC model demonstrator |
Deliverables :
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| A.3 | Problems encountered |
Excluding the above mentioned problem (that was the main reason for the delay) we have not experienced further problems at this level.
| A.4 | Contribution to a competitive market |
If we consider the landscape at the beginning of the project:
the fact that more and more partners (mainly the initial partners) are going to join the project can be considered as a success element and a base of certain guarantee in the performed road.
In fact the increasing of content providers together with other actors well strong in the added values as a consequence of their high professional skills is one of the sounding fact well appreciated in the market.
The general situation in Europe created by the liberalisation of Telecom services generated organizative conditions for the growth of economical opportunities in service centers more than the request for unique suppliers or standardization. This landscape will be tremendous growth factor for the opportunities of the project and his dissemination.
Next critical phase is related to the sustain that International and European bodies could activate in the area of the cultural heritage in the next future. In particular the role of the MOU is of a highest level of importance. A this stage the consolidation of the mark with the prestigious recognition of the Smithsonian Institut together with the continuos message of this project idea on the market remains a strong base for the development of the project in a short period of time.
We could feel much more confident if we could relay on a contractual frame much longer.
This kind of projects, much more marketing oriented, needs the time to involve all the International possible partners ensuring both consistency and continuity together with a consolidation on the market well longer than a solar year.
| A.5 | Dissemination activities |
The WP1300 and WP 1800 are mainly involved for this arguments. The annexed documentation illustrates press release and participation of the MOSAIC consortium to the International workshops.
The MOSAIC web has been created in order to manage the project and disseminate information to all the partners and contractors. The first network of MOSAIC, has been activated in following cities: Bologna, Darmstadt, Graz, Milano. The MoU web hosting and related forum has present in MOSAIC server.
The main links are : (1) Partners, (2) Project, (3) Other Projects, (4) Info, (5) Form, (6) Demos, (7) News, (8) Intranet
Web Tools.
"Partners" - information about : (1) MOSAIC Consortium ("the Coordinator" and "the
"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 flashpix and WRML has
activated
Access to "Project" and to "Intranet" is allowed through the usage of a password. Access to the "Press" (in Info)
also requires a password.
MOSAIC sites:
The number of access to the English version of the web is around 2500.
The MOSAIC logo has been produced. It is the outcome of the various stages experienced by the graphic alphabet, it is a fundamental mean 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 harmonization 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.
The MOSAIC communication and presentation tape is produced.
The following Meetings and Conferences have been held:
The dissemination activities done and in progress are:
| Date |
Event |
City |
|
10.01.97 |
Info Day Educational Multimedia |
Brussels (B) |
|
17 January 98 |
3 Incontro Tecnico Nazionale ARI Associazione Restauratori Italiani |
Assisi (I) |
|
02 97 |
Art Education Nouvelles Technologies |
Paris (F) |
|
10 February |
Presentazione MOSAIC alla Città delle Science di Parigi |
Paris (F) |
|
11 February |
La catalogazione delle collezioni d'arte delle banche (ABI) |
Roma (I) |
|
8-11 February |
MILIA |
Cannes (F) |
|
25 Feb - 1 Mar |
BIT - Borsa Internazionale del Turismo |
Milan (I) |
|
4-6 March |
Imagina |
Monaco |
|
4-7 March |
Euro-Med Net 98 |
Nicosia - Cyprus |
|
10 March |
ICOM-Workshop for "Digital Realization of Images in Museums" |
Vienna - AU |
|
19-25 March |
CEBIT |
Hannover (D) |
|
25-27 March |
BITE – Bringing Information Technology to Education |
Maastricht - NL |
|
25-28 March |
CAA98 – Computer Applications In Archaeology |
Barcelona (E) |
|
23-28 March |
EVA '98 Florence |
Florence (I) |
|
27-28 March |
MediArTech - MoU Plenary Assembly |
Florence (I) |
|
March/April |
G7 General Meeting |
Roma (I) |
|
3-7 April |
FutureShow |
Bologna (I) |
|
6-10 April |
EVA '98 Gifu |
Gifu (J) |
|
3-6 April |
Archeoland 98 - Restauro 98 |
Ferrara (I) |
|
14-18 April |
World Wide Conference |
Brisbane - Australia |
|
22-25 April |
Museums and the Web 1998 |
Toronto (CA) |
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27-29 April |
Euro-Mediterranean Network Cooperation Cairo Workshop |
Cairo - Egypt |
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27-29 May |
EVA '98 Athens |
Athens |
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20 May |
Multimedia Super Corridor |
London, UK |
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4-6 June |
EVA '98 Bucharest |
Bucharest (R) |
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Convegni SOMEDIA |
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SIME |
Paris (F) |
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June |
CERAM |
Sophia Antipolis (F) |
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1-3 July |
Virtual Words 98 |
Paris (F) |
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7-10 July |
IEEE-ISIE ‘98 |
Portugal |
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19-24 July |
Siggraph |
Orlando, Florida - USA |
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23-24 July |
EVA 98 Cambridge |
Cambridge (UK) |
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September |
CULT H |
Wien (A) |
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1-5 September |
Ichim |
Paris (F) |
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Mid Autumn |
Scandinavian Museum Fair |
Goteborg |
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2-6 September |
UAB Multimedia |
Palma de Mallorca (ES) |
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8-12 September |
Smart Communities |
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12-15 September |
Cultural Heritage Network Hypermedia |
Milan - (I) |
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24-25 September |
EVA '98 Paris |
Paris (F) |
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October |
SMAU |
Milan (I) |
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October |
Frankfurt Buchmesse |
Frankfurt (D) |
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2 December |
EVA '98 Vienna |
Wien (A) |
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6 December |
SalonBit |
Torino |
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7 December |
EVA '98 Los Angeles |
LA (CA) |
| A.6 | Cooperation activities with other EC projects |
Mosaic is subscriber of Multimedia Access to Europe’s Cultural Heritage – and it can appear as one of the operating branches of the Memorandum of Understanding promoted by the European Commission.
We have considered the progress and the activities of the following projects :
Aquarell (TAP IE 2005) Sharing Cultural Heritage through Multimedia Telematics - needed results: CIMI activities of the project and multilingual solution offered by the project
VISEUM (ACTS 10111) - Virtual Museum International - needed results: ATM network infrastructures for creating a virtual museum
MAGNETS (TAP AD 1101) - Museums and Galleries New Technologies Study - here the results of the deliverables has been taken into account within the MOSAIC deliverables
VASARI (ESPRIT EP 2649) - Visual Arts Systems for Archiving and Retrieval of Images - perhaps needed results (question to Infobyte or DISET): high quality image digitalisation process and high resolution scanner
IMPRIMATUR (ESPRIT EP 20676) - Intellectual Multimedia Property Rights Model and Terminology for Universal Reference - needed results: a demonstrator based on the architecture which is referenced in WP1500 of MOSAIC
Additional information from ZGDV:
ZGDV is involved in following EC projects:
DEDICATED (DELTA-Project)
IDEALS (TAP Education Project) - Integration of DEDICATED for Advanced Training Linked to Small and Medium Enterprises and Institutes for Higher Education - results of the project could be used for courseware creation and delivery support
MOMENTS (ACTS AC002) - Mobile Media and Entertainment Services - results could be used for attention to mobile users when creating content on cultural heritage
VANGUARD (ACTS ) - Visualisation Across Networks using Graphics and Uncalibrated Acquisition of Real
Data
VANGUARD aims at the development of a powerful tool for automated reconstruction of real-life objects by
applying methods from image processing, computer vision and computer graphics on image sequences taken with uncalibrated cameras.
VIP (ESPRIT ) - Virtual Plane - The aim of the project is to develop industrial rear-projection horizontal screens (planes), used to display 3-D interactive images. The VIP technology will be tested and validated a.o. in an architecture application: Presentations of architectural projects, especially for large areas, as in city planning projects. Thus it can be used also in archaeological applications.
Additionally ZGDV has interaction established with IPR projects through the Fraunhofer IGD:
OKAPI (ACTS AC051) - Open Kernel for Access to Protected Interoperable interactive services
TALISMAN (ACTS AC019) - Tracing Authors’ rights by Labelling Image Services and Monitoring Access Network
OCTALIS (ACTS AC10119) - Offer of Content through Trusted Access LInkS
Additional information from Infobyte:
Infobyte has been involved in the CD-NET project in the INFO2000 program. In particular the quality related to the multimedia application has been outlined.
Infobyte participation is proposed also into the ESPRIT project CYBERMONUMENT.
Additional information from Joanneum Research:
Projects in relation to the MOSAIC project (in the field of cultural heritage) in which Joanneum Research is involved
CIMI
Five Key Organizations Will Test Z39.50 with CIMI (Press Release, 24th April, 1997)
An overwhelming number of International organizations working with cultural heritage information responded to CIMI's call for participation in its test of the Z39.50 standard for data search and retrieval. As museums and libraries throughout the world adopt this standard, cultural heritage information-including text, audio, and video-now held in "islands of information" will become uniformly available to anyone who has access to a computer terminal.
CIMI (the Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information) consists of 16 member organizations working cooperatively to solve problems that restrict the electronic interchange of museum information. To create truly easy interchange of information requires adopting standards, which is why Z39.50 is such an important part of the effort to disseminate cultural heritage information. This mature standard represents the culmination of two decades of thinking and debate within libraries and museums about how information retrieval can be carried out in a distributed environment, one where people in different places using different systems can exchange information at a deep and meaningful level. This standard has also been an important factor in the effort to create digital libraries that can truly mimic the capabilities that traditional libraries offer for finding information.
The strong response to CIMI's call for participation confirmed the pressing need for CIMI's work on interoperability-enabling information to be interchanged regardless of the systems used to store or retrieve the information. CIMI's test will be carried out with participation from the largest museum collections management vendor in North America, from several groups involved in enormous cultural databanks throughout Europe, and from a vitally important national museum project in Taiwan.
CIMI was able to choose 5 participants and 2 alternates to take part in the CIMI Z39.50 Interoperability Testbed Project after painstaking review of applications from 42 highly qualified organizations. The chosen groups will work together with CIMI to develop an application of this International standard for search and retrieval appropriate to cultural heritage information. They will also receive training in the use of the standard and CIMI's particular application. Finally, they will receive tools and assistance in implementing the standard on information from their own local systems. The test project is being carried out with support from the United States National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The groups carrying out the test include:
Intermuse Willoughby Associates, Ltd., of Winnetka, Illinois-North America's largest museum collections management vendor.
Databasix Information Systems-a Dutch producer and vendor of the ADLIB library management system that just recently installed a collections management system in six British museums and also works for the Royal Belgian Institute for Art Heritage and RKD, the Dutch National Institute for Documentation of Art.
Finsiel S.p.A.-the largest Italian provider of information technology to the cultural heritage sector and a key participant in the European Union's Aquarelle Project, the G7's Hypermuseum project, several national information access projects (including data from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence), and other Europe- wide initiatives in information access.
Crossnet Systems Ltd. and Joanneum Research-a British system developer and an Austrian museum research group that have worked with many museums and libraries throughout Europe and who will apply the standards test to information from national museums in Germany, Hungary, and Austria.
The Information Systems and Software Technology Group of the Institute of Computer Science of the Foundation for Research and Technology-a Greek systems developer whose applications are used in the management of vast amounts of data on Greek antiquities and who is also a key participant in the Aquarelle project.
The alternates include:
Center for Excellence for Research in Computer Systems, National Taiwan University-which is working on the National Taiwan University Digital Library/Museum Project, a massive effort to digitize and disseminate historical documents and artifacts on the cultural heritage of Taiwan.
Geac Computers Ltd.-a Canadian supplier of library automation systems with over 1200 customers worldwide, including many museums and art galleries, such as the Louvre and the Musee d'Art Moderne.
Blue Angel Technologies, a software company specializing in Z39.50 applications, will also be taking part in the project under separate sponsorship in order to build a Java-based system that can work with Z39.50 and is optimized for CIMI.
Each of the participating groups indicated the strong need for CIMI's work on applying a standard for ease of search and retrieval. "The availability of cultural resources to the widest possible audience is a benefit to society far beyond the mere access to the data," according to Willoughby's Larry Mills-Gahl. He goes on to say that "Z39.50 is a another tool in the quest to unlock the treasures to be found in museum data."
After an extensive government-funded search for the best way to make ist data available, the National Taiwan University chose CIMI because ist standards were seen to be those over the long term would give the information the largest possible access worldwide. Databasix summed up ist feelings about the project by saying that information providers must realize how important it is that data be easy to access and exchange, because today no organization can be left "living in an isolated world."
Participants will attend an Interoperability Training Workshop in Washington, DC, in May or June. They will also participate in three or four subsequent meetings between now and October. CIMI will publicize the results of this work as it becomes available.
Organizations involved in the CIMI "Distributed Search And Retrieve Interoperability Testbed Project"
Five organizations were selected for funded participation in the CIMI interoperability testbed:
In addition, CIMI has entered into an agreement with Blue Angel Technologies (US) to develop a CIMI client for interoperability testing, and Blue Angel will participate in the interoperability testbed.
In the past year, CIMI also worked with Systems Simulation Ltd. (UK) to develop a toolkit for Z39.50 server implementation that supports the CIMI specifications. SSL will provide the toolkit for the interoperability testing as well as participating in the testbed with the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Several CIMI members will also be participating in the interoperability testbed including:
A number of other organizations have stated their interest in participating in the interoperability testbed including:
JOANNEUM RESEARCH takes part in this project as systems integrator together with Crossnet (JR's partner in the ONE Project) and the MUSoNET partners: German Historical Museum/Berlin, Hungarian National Museum/Budapest, Municipal Museum Feldbach. For more information, contact John Perkins, CIMI's Executive Director at jperkins@fox.nstn.ns.ca or by fax (902)826-1337. http://www.cimi.org/cimi/introduction.html
MusoNet
Project Summary:
The interconnection of digital collections by means of regional, national and International networks raises the problem of using standards within different areas of computerized information systems. For museums there have been developed recommendations to apply standards on a technical basis as well for the content related work (data entry). These recommendations have been published by International consortia (CIMI) and organisations (ICOM) and are already used in a few demonstration projects. The most relevant standards refer to data capturing (ICOM/CIDOC-information categories), catalogue production (SGML) and networked search and retrieval (Z39.50/ISO-10162,63).
The MUSoNET project demonstrates how these standards can be used within a heterogeneous network of different museums of different sizes and different types of collections.
To build up a demonstrator system the work is divided in two lines:
The application sites (Deutsches Historisches Museum, National Hungarian Museum, Municipial Museum Feldbach) are setting up or are providing demonstration collections following International standards. In addition they design a set of generic information (WWW) pages that can be used for referencing services within the MUSoNET network.
The system integrator provides the application sites with the necessary software components which include the standards for the interconnection and interrogation of museum data bases and the generation of information products (e.g.: catalogues). These components can be used on a low cost PC either integrated or in front of existing local systems or at a Central Service Site.
The application sites are setting up a trial service to demonstrate the interoperability of the connected systems and the use of Central Services (generation of printed or electronic information products like catalogues or CD-ROMs).
One important outcome of the project lies in the fact, that modern information technology is not only limited to (large) museums having a high scale budget, but can also be used by small to medium sized museums. This enables even very small museums to take active part in the International networked based museum business. To make use of the outcome of MUSoNET on an European scale it is foreseen to offer the MUSoNET components on a regional (Styria), national (Hungary) and International (Central Europe ICOM Group) basis to other museums.
MUSoNET also demonstrates the benefits when using International standards to improve access to museum collections in networked systems. In addition the project introduces the concept of a "public thesaurus" which acts as a reference tool to different museums and collections within the network.
The partner of MUSoNET are coming from three European countries (Germany, Austria and Hungary).
User benefits refers to the unified access (unique query formulation and result representation) to different collections within a network, since this takes the burden from her/him to learn the handling of different information systems because the set of all museum collections appear to him/her as one single virtual collection. The museums are benefiting from MUSoNET since they are getting low cost tools to offer modern information and high quality services and products to raise their income.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH coordinates the MUSoNET project which is cofinanced by the European Commission, DG-X (Pre-Raphael Program). The MUSoNET consortium is also involved in the CIMI Interoperability Testbed Project (CIMI: Consortium for the Computer Interchange of Museum Information).
COINET
Project Summary
The scientific description of finds and hoards of ancient coins is an important means to provide fundamental elements for the historical sciences. During past years some progress has been made in cataloguing and describing these special items of coins. But - as it has been proved in many cases - the existing documentation of finds and hoards of ancient coins only has limited value for the scientific community, even for experts in numismatics. The evaluation of these coin finds should not be done following the actual political and geographical status as it is done nowadays, but should follow the political boundaries and situations which have existed in Roman times. So, scientific evaluations should refer to that time, when the coins, which have been found were used. It would be very interesting to make scientific evaluations for example for the Roman provinces Noricum and Pannonia. This could be enabled if the collections of all countries at the geographical sites of the former Roman provinces like: Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia (Pannonia) or Austria, Slovenia and Italy (Noricum) would be accessible via an International (computer) network and the methodologies for the description and cataloguing of finds and hoards of ancient coins will be harmonized. Once the different sites containing relevant coin collections have the possibility to communicate via modern communication technology (based on the fast growing internet), different services and operations are made possible as there are: e-mail, ftp (file transfer protocol)-access to a common document server for cooperate publishing, distributed data base access (search and retrieval services), W3 (world wibe web) pointer page to interesting topics for numismatic research, etc. Having a networked facility using state of the art computer technology and data interchange standards at hands, new research activities would be possible to investigate historical interdependencies - not only from the fiscal view - but also related to socio-oeconomics aspects and so on.
Project description
Ancient coins found in an archaeological context or by chance are always very important historical documents not only for numismatists but also for archeologists, historians and others. The importance lays in the unique historical background of the coins, which can be dated very exactly and which are able to inform us about the economical background of the times in which they have been used. Also other results they are able to offer, like duration, heights and deeps of a settlement and the number of inhabitants of an ancient city or village. Scattered finds of coins can show us the routes of ancient streets etc.
Though the scientific description of ancient coins which have been found in the last decades is now going on in several countries of Europe, there exists in general a listing of these found coins only, which was worked out and published by scientist of the country where the finds were made. In some countries they also tried to start the interpretation of their coin finds. But the results never will be sufficient because in case of the coins of the Roman Empire we need to make an interpretation of the money circulation of the former Roman Province and compare it with an other one. Only in this way these sorts of interpretations can be successful.
The coin finds of the former Roman provinces Noricum and Pannonia are partly published (listed) and partly the publications are in preparation. The territories of these former provinces belong today to Austria, Hungary, Slovenia and Croatia (=Pannonia) and to Austria, Slovenia and Italy (= Noricum). If there would be developed a data network for International communication within these countries, the demanded form (enough data available) of interpretation of the founden coins would be possible. This will be a sort of pilot project, which furtheron can be used not only for all other provinces of the former Roman world but also for coin finds of other times, like the Greek antiquity, the Celtic world or also medieval or early modern find coins.
One important factor of this project will also be - because of the photo documentation of all find coins - that if coins documented in this way they will be available also for further generations and to a broader user community.
From the technical point of view the project is based on state of the art technology using client/server architecture and information retrieval standards for multiserver environment over a digital network. The overall concept of this networked information system comprized all relevant domains: data base creation using multimedia data entry station, data base management based on relational data base technology, and information server (based on World Wide Web) with integrated (Z39.50) gateway to the data bases. By this means COINET provides an efficient and modern toolset to the researcher community in the numismatic field and to the broad public interested in coin collections. This application, centered around the Greco-Roman period can easily adapted to other periods and even more to other types of objects.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH is the main technical partner within COINET which is coordinated by the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Münzkabinett) and cofinanced by the European Commission, DG-X (Pre-Raphael Program).
ONE
Project ONE: Taking a further step towards a Europe-wide information network
OPAC Network in Europe - ONE - is a major new project which will provide library users with better ways to access library OPACs and national catalogues (OPAC: On-line Public Access Catalogue) and which will stimulate and facilitate interworking between libraries in Europe.
ONE is a collaborative project involving 15 organisations in 8 European countries. ONE began on January 30th 1995 and will last for 30 months. The total budget is 2.4 million ECU. The project is cofinanced by the European Commission's Libraries Programme
Most of the participants have a long tradition of providing services to libraries in a distributed (or networked) environment. Some already offer operational services based on Z39.50 and/or SR. The project does not intend to start a completely new software development, but aims at building on existing software available to the project.
The project will also produce new systems for user assistance which will make it easier for users in one country to access catalogues in another. Entry point software will also be produced which will allow users to dial-in to a single point to access any of the participants' OPACs. The project is based on the application of International standards and will produce high-quality software which will be put into the public domain to encourage the interworking of libraries in Europe. The results of the project will be used in a trial service based on the catalogues of the participants and involving a wide range of users across Europe.
The standards on which the project is based are the SR/Z39.50 protocols which enable users to search widely different computer systems across networks. SR/Z39.50 offer end-users the promise of greater ease of use through a solution to the proliferation of different user interfaces to library catalogues.
The software produced within ONE will also address issues of diverse record formats and character sets which are currently barriers to seamless access across distributed databases. ONE will also contribute to the development and enhancement of the SR/Z39.50 standards.
The participants in the project are:
The Coordinator of the project is Oslo College - unit BRODD, Norway.
JOANNEUM RESEARCH is contractor and full partner within the ONE Project. Dr.Koch acts as chairman of the Project ManagementTeam.
JR is responsible for the development of the local Z39.50 target systems, the definition of the Explain Services and for the RPN2SQL Convertor included in the ONE Tool Box.
The local developments for the Styrian Landesbibliothek and the Landesmuseum Joanneum is supported by the government of Styria.
Part B - Remaining work to be done
| B.1 | Remaining work to be done |
|
WP number |
description |
percentage of work to be carried out |
|
WP 1100 |
Survey of the "state of the art" |
0% |
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WP 1200 |
Market plan |
65% |
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WP 1300 |
Partner search and economical agreement definition |
25% |
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WP 1400 |
Target User profile definition |
0% |
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WP 1500 |
Requirements definition, tools, service centers, application |
0% |
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WP 1600 |
Study for the reuse of existing applications into the defined architecture |
10% |
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WP 1700 |
Architecture definition and tools definition |
15% |
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WP 1800 |
Dissemination of results |
90% |
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WP 1900 |
Management |
22% |
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WP 2000 |
CSC model demonstrator |
43% |
| B.2 | Changes to the project plan, if appropriate |
The main contractual modification has been related to the position of the French association Arenotech. No budget modification has been requested but simply internal organizative redefinition and reschedule of planning. Changes due to Arenotech situation were not connect to project changing but a small shift for completion of the project (around six months or less).
Reasons for this delay have been clarified in other sections and we can here just to resume:
| B.3 | Critical external dependencies |
Starting from the MOSAIC approach no major critical external dependencies are envisaged.
Part C - Plans for implementation and deployment
| C.1 | Main thrust and direction of your implementation / deployment plan. |
The annexed planning illustrates the strategy for the next phase of verification and validation of the MOSAIC network. The focal step is to verify by means of pilot CSC the network capability and to refine the commercial strategy in term of agreement and business plan consistence.
During this phase CSC will provide to a selected range of pilot users generic and basic service on the Cultural Network by using existing infrastructures and application products partially re-used. Pilot implementation will involve only a preliminary configuration of the final CSC, in the 2nd year phase each CSC configuration will take into account ad maximum the availability of devices, structure and applications to reduce the overall investment before a formal assessment from the pilot market and application deployment. This condition will reduce the start up cost of the CSC to one third of the budgetary estimation. Considering the absence of self funding element during 2nd year the required EU funding is up to 50%.
The 3rd year funding will be probably mainly based on the start up of new CSC if new partner will join the project otherwise the investment amount will be related to the activation of commercial activity of existing CSC. Under this conditions no funding by EU will probably be requested.
| C.2 | Contribution of the feasibility phase to develop a convincing business case. |
The WP 1200 activities are based on the following items :
Table of Contents
1. Introduction
1.1 Scope
1.2 Definition, Acronyms and Abbreviations
1.3 Applicable Documents
1.4 Applicable Documents
1.5 Document Structure
2. The Promoters of Mosaic
2.1 Provide all relevant information to identify the promoters and qualify its ability to execute the project. This include its Legal status, Corporate Structure, Capital Structure, Organisation, Staff levels and Past experience in similar projects
3. Mosaic Scope and Objectives
3.1 Provide a summary description of the Project. Describe its objectives
4. The Services and the Marketing Approach
4.1 Describe the services that will be provided
4.2 Describe the Users of the Services.
The users are the Organisations or the individuals that will be using and paying for the services
4.3 Describe the Demand for the Services to be Provided and expected competition
4.4 Describe How the services will be marketed, including the pricing approach and expected market Share
5. Mosaic Implementation
5.1 Provide a technical and functional description of the system (Include also here a review of the standards used through the project to ensure inter-operability and inter-connectivity)
5.2 Describe the physical investment that need to be made, such as servers, workstations, PCs and other equipment
5.3 Describe the non-Physical investment that need to be made such as studies, pilots, software development, training, technical assistance, etc.
5.4 Describe the resources necessary to operate the services and to identify performance indicators
5.5 Provide a provisional time table of the project up to deployment and operation. Identify specific milestones where the project will be formally reviewed by the promoters and the decision to deploy be made
6. Financial Analysis
6.1 Cost
6.1.1 Provide an analysis of all investments costs of the project. Refer to 5.2 and 5.3 above. Identify those costs already included
6.1.2 Provide a summary analysis of the costs of operating the services, including communications costs. Refer to 5.4 above
6.2 Revenue
7. Risk and Dependencies
7.1 Identify critical risk and dependencies to the implementation of the project, including regulatory issues, property rights, availability of basic networks and generic services, costs of communications etc.
8. Economic Analysis
8.1 Describe the socio-economic benefits of the project notably its impact on employment
9. Annexes
10. Introduction
10.1 Outline of legal FrameWork and Problems in Europe
10.2 Country Analysis
10.3 Comparative Analysis of EC & EFTA National Practices
10.4 Legislation in England
10.5 Legislation in France
11. MOSAIC Strategy on IPR
12. ANNEXES
12.1 International Initiatives & EC project
12.2 International sites
12.3 Ronchey Law
With this information and forecast will be possible to startup the deployment phase and convince the new partner of the project revenue capacity.
| C.3 | Description of the expected operational product or service |
As proposed in Technical Annex (beginning 3rd year).
In the feasibility study phase an analysis of the target user is foreseen. In fact, before to introduce a new service on the culture is very important to better outline the users expectation and needs. A preliminary list of users is, in any case, take into account in our commercial analysis (specialists, researchers, students, tourists, tourist operators, adept employees,..).
Synthesis of final user expectations and specifications as been presented in the executive summaries of the WP1400 and WP1500 documents.
Demo session has already been created with guidelines highlighted in the WP 1600 chap. 6
In the dissemination phase we’ll receive the greatest remarks and recommendation; in the validation phase we will introduce modification and evolutive aspects to adjust MOSAIC operative model.
| C.4 | Present status of the business plan/ financial plan. |
The WP 1200 is in progress. The economical figures for the business plan are produced by the WP 1600 and WP 1700. The analysis of the services and the market overview is in progress.
Part of the work related to the commercial framework and the cost definition is quite completed (output of WP 1400, WP 1600 and WP 1700). The review of this elements and the feedback of the potential user coming from the dissemination activities (WP 1300, WP 2000 and WP 1800) required for the business plan finalisation.
| C.5 | Role of the partners in relation to the deployment of the expected operation of the product or service: |
CSC MUS.A - ROMA
As forecast at the beginning, a good occasion to stress in a practical, some new intuitions of the project will be a new technological museum based on real and virtual opportunities in Rome, via del Corso 321, with the new enterprise generated by Banca di Roma, Ente Cassa di Risparmio, Progetti Museali and other partners. A new company named MUS.A has been created and a new exhibition espace is going to be activated. This new museal area will be based on the usage of new technologies shared in a network with other museal actors, just as designed trough the specific highlighted by MOSAIC.
This will represent a new strong cultural and technological window on the turistical world in the very center of one of the most representative city of Europe and of the world: Rome.
This project has been approved and delivered by the Bank and works are in progress for new structures in the building with specifics devices ( Internet area, virtual presentation area, etc.).
The executive activities of the project are already in place added value of this enterprise:
CSC JOANNEUM RESEARCH
Business Functions:
| 1. Information System Planning and Implementation |
Planning of Information Systems for cultural heritage organisations
Assistance in the implementation of the museum’s information systems |
| 1.1 Information Management Service | Providing specified solutions for museum information management |
| 1.2 Project Management | Assisting cultural heritage project management |
| 1.3 Web Services | Offering services and solutions for the creation and maintenance of cultural heritage web sites |
| 2. Provision of Cataloguing and Documentation Systems (IMDAS) |
The ‘Integrated Museum Documentation and Administration System’ is tailored for the special inventory needs of museums |
| 3. Network Information and Retrieval Services (CIMI Z39.50) |
Offering network Search&Retrieval Services based on CIMI Z39.50 standards |
| 4. Provision of Database Host Facility | The CSC offers the possibility to host data on its cultural heritage database |
| 5. Multi-Media Educational Material | Educational material for advanced training in the area of networked museology and museums information |
| 6. Film Restoration | The CSC offers a digital processing tool for the restoration of films (reconstruction, quality improvement, digital mastering, multimedia). |
CSC SCHLOSS SCHOENBRUNN (Austria)
It has to be taken in account that Schloss Schoenbrunn would became the Cultural Service Center which will contribute to dissemination of MOSAIC in Austria.
In the meantime trough Arenotech an engagement has been realized with the Citè de la Science ( Paris ) to deliver the first French center.
All the museal French organization is actively following MOSAIC iniziative and there is a plan in short time to join MOSAIC opportunities in Citè de la Science scenario. As well known also this iniziative is related to the fruition of the cultural heritage through new multimedial technologies with virtual reality.
During a section in the technological center at Sophia Antipolis (France ) this join has been publically declared explaining all contents and added values.
Cineca is also working in the area of archives for museums, libraries, for Regions and governmental areas. A demo section has been prepared to be inserted through Geographical Information Systems in educational products.
Part D.
The annexed documentation is the following :
7. ANNEX A : PLANNING (next page)