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.

4. Current project status.

5. Deliverables.

6. Work done.

7. ANNEX A : PLANNING.

Contract N. 45527      Project Acronym: MOSAIC Project 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 - Roma Telephone: +39 6 6700 8944 E-mail mosaic@bancaroma.it List of Partners: Organisation Role Country Banca di Roma s.p.a -BDR Coordinator established in Italy Joanneum Research - Forshungsgesellschaft mbH - JRC Contractor established in Austria Zentrum fur Graphische DatenVerarbeitung e.V - ZGDV Contractor established in Germany Cineca - Consorzio Interuniversitario per la Gestione Del Centro di Calcolo Elettronico dell'Italia Nord Occidentale CINECA Contractor established in Italy Politecnico di Milano, DIP.ISET DISET Contractor 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. 45527 Project Title: Museum Over States And vIrtual Culture Project Coordinator : Maurizio Borghi         Signed............................. Date:

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 :

• Schloss Schoenbrunn
• Österrechische National Bibliothek
• AIT - Angewandte Informationstechnik - Graz
• Associated of Hofburg*
• Albertina – Wien^*

• Virtual Presence Limited - Sale Cheshire
• VASARI Enterprise ltd – London*
• Cambridge Management group*

• Associated of Arenotech
• SIM TEAM - Paris
• Fondation Sophia Antipolis*
• Club MITSA - Sophia Antipolis*

• ART+COM
• Museum fur Antike Schiffahrt - Mainz *
• Romisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum - Mainz *
• Bildarchiv Preussicher Kulturbesitz - Mainz *

• Accademia Massimo - Roma
• AIACE - International Association of Computing in Archaeology
• Apple Italia – Milano*
• Archivio Centro di Catalogazione Beni Culturali Villa Manin - Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia
• Archivio Storico Bulgarini d'Elci
• Archivio Storico Diocesano di Milano
• Associazione Bancaria Italiana – Roma*
• Bancaria Editrice – Roma*
• Biblioteca Capitolare di Verona*
• Canadian Embassy of Rome*
• Cap Gemini Italia S.p.A.
• Capware – Ottaviano, Napoli
• CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
• Cooperativa archeologia, s.c.r.l. per la valorizzazione del patrimonio culturale - Firenze
• Ente Interregionale - Progetto Europeo "Herity" - Roma
• Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta – Milano*
• Fondazione Longhi - Firenze
• Fondazione Ricci Oddi, Piacenza
• Fondazione San Paolo di Torino
• Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna - Roma
• Istituto Italiano per l'Industria Culturale - Roma
• ITALTEL S.p.A. – Milano*
• Luiss - Libera Università Internazionale degli Studi Sociali
• Marsilio Editore - Venezia
• Mediatech, Roma
• Ministero Affari Esteri – Roma*
• Ministero per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali - Sopraintendenza per i beni ambientali e storici per l'Abruzzo, L'Aquila.
• Musei Capitolini - Antiquarium Comunale - Roma
• Museo dell’Orto Botanico - Roma
• Nautilus – Capri*
• Progetti Museali S.p.A.
• Progetto: "I Musei Virtuali della Certosa di Calci". Progetto concordato tra lo Studio ZYX, la Soprintendenza B.A.A.A.S. di Pisa
• Provincia di Milano, Assessorato alla Cultura e Tempo Libero
• Regione Lombardia, Assessorato alla Cultura e Trasparenza – Milano*
• Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa - Centro Ricerche Informatiche per i Beni Culturali
• Silicon Graphics - Milano
• Sovraintendenza delle Antichità e Belle Arti del Comune di Roma
• TELECOM ITALIA*
• Università degli studi di Pisa. Supportato dal Comune di Calci e dalla Provincia di Pisa
• Università degli Studi di Trieste - Dipartimento EI – Trieste*
• Università di Padova - Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica

• Centro de Computacao Grafica – Coimbra*

• Göteborg University - Department of Environmental Science and Conservation - Institute of Conservation
• Metimur Company (technical Partner)

• University of Jaén
• Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona^*
• Universidad Autonoma de Palma de Mallorca*
• Ministerio de la Cultura – Madrid*
• Museo Nacional de la Ciencia y de la Tecnologia – Madrid*

• Hewlett Packard Europe (Belgium)*
• Imation S.p.A (borne of 3M Innovation)
• Microsoft Europe*
• National Technical Museum - Prague

• R.I.T.S.E.C. - Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center - Egypt
• CRC Research Institute Inc.
• SUMS (System for Universal Media Searching) project - G7 - Toronto - Canada *
• Guggenheim Museum - NY (USA)
• CAD Center Corporation
• CALTECH - CA (USA -G7 partner)
• Capital Normal University - Beijing - PR of China*
• CHIN Canadian Heritage Information Network*
• Xerox Palo Alto Research Center - Palo Alto CA – USA*
• Lighscape Inc. - San Jose CA – USA*
• Multigen Inc. - Palo Alto – USA*
• Microsoft Reseach Centre - Redmond WA – USA*
• AMICO – USA^*

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:

• how to express the promotional capacity
• how to manage self-financing
• how to activate this course
• how to understand the user's needs
• how to guarantee the quality and the accuracy of the contents

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.

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 3^rd 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 5^th 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:

• long technical times to organize meetings with the most significant interlocutors (institutions and experts).
• necessity to plan a dissemination of the project and receive consistent feedback in concomitance of important national and International events (whose dates are beyond the planning of the project).
• the necessity to build a network of people to back the foundations of the project are often time consuming when the interlocutors are big organizations or institutions.
• the necessity to receive the most vast possible sample of thoughts and expectations at world level.

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).

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:

• the correct multi lingualism of the dissemination products
• the management of thematic thesaurus
• the individualisation of quality fees of the dissemination product on the MM, VR and Internet technologies
• the analysis of the product's semantic contents

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.

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:

• preparing quality grid on services
• facilitate meetings between suppliers and players of the market (strengthen communication between the players - setup the network)
• undertake different approaches for national CSCs
• preparing a methodology for CSC implementation
• implementation issue: „strengthen effort on dividing project into working groups"
• prepare a legal framework

In our intention the planned activities, for the next project phase, are the following:

• re-engineering of existing product on Mosaic environment
• Pilot users feedback analysis
• Activation of pilot network of cultural service center
• France Cultural Service Center
• Italian Cultural Service Center (Bo)
• Italian Cultural Service Center (RM)
• German Cultural Service Center
• Austrian Cultural Service Center
• Service start-up - Implementation Phase
• Market plan and contractual agreement refinement
• Pilot results validation
• Promotional demo and dissemination
• Management

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:

• we will setup a legal framework by transforming intentional letter into contractual agreement and enlarging CSC cooperative network in national and International area (implementation/realization of WP1200).

• we will increase the quality of the products disseminating multilingual and multicultural applications.

• we will go on enforcing relationship within the MOU.

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 :

• collective European cultural growth and major cultural integration between European citizens;
• re proposal of the cultural sector in terms of professional work of new technologies and structures.

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.

The table presented in the following paragraph illustrated the delayed delivery for each workpackages.

To = beginning of the project (May 1^st 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 :

• start up of project - acceptance of project was unsure in the first month
• changement of Coordinator - partners focused in their activity planning to other projects (rescheduling of activities)
• matching MOSAIC planning with major International events. Getting a broader basis for qualified input.
• dissemination phase needs to be fit into International events in Cultural Heritage
• enforcing the demonstration work (e.g. Paris ICHIM97 and Florence Mediartech 98)

Are project objectives
being met? Yes

No comments Is work done within the project budget? Yes

Major achievements within reporting period :

• good feedback from final user on MOSAIC approach
• great number of new additional participants
• award for the innovation in the art from Smithsoniam Institute

Part A.	Summary of the work undertaken
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:

• high quantity of possible subscribers
• high interest of institutional and private bodies
• good reliability on standards and confidence of structural services to be activated
• strong expectations by a diversified world well ready to accept this kind of solutions as it happened in the case of Internet

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:

• April 18^th - Canadian Embassy in Rome - Italy
• April 21^st - Giornata di Studi in occasione della XII settimana dei beni culturali Villa Manin di Passariano - Udine - Italy
• May 27^th 97 - Interface Virtuelle - Montpellier
• June 5-12^th - IEEE International Symposium - Guimaraes - Portugal
• June 15^th Unesco OCCAM
• June - Ministère de l’Education e de la Culture - Paris
• June 23^rd - Ministero Cultura y Museo de la Cienca y Tecnica - Madrid
• June 97 - ABI - Tavola Rotonda sul contributo delle banche al patrimonio culturale - Club Mitza, CERAM
• June 2^nd 97 - General Meeting - Rome
• June 5^th 97 - MoU meeting
• June 6^th 97 - Museums Group
• June 17^th 97 - MOSAIC presentation in Paris
• June 23^rd 97 - Meeting in Madrid
• June 24^th 97 - Meeting in ABI
• June 27^th 97 - MOSAIC Presentation in Roma
• June 28^th 97 - MOSAIC Presentation in Sophia Antipolis
• July 6^th /11^th 97 - IEEE ISIE 97 Conference MOSAIC Presentation
• July 26^th 97 - Guimaraes - Portugal
• July 28^th Entretiens de Paris sur le devenir de l'action culturelle europeenne" - Paris - France
• August 2^nd /8^th 97 - SIGGRAPH - Los Angeles
• September 2-5^th - Le nouvelles prespectives de la numerisation - Palma de Mallorca - Spain
• September 2^nd/8^th 97 - Musees et Hypermedia ICHIM 97 - Auditorium du Louvre, Paris
• September 13^th/15^th 97 - Cultural Heritage Network Hypermedia - Milan
• September 17^th - Canadian Bell Medialinx meeting c/o Canadian embassy in Rome
• IMDAS Presentation Meeting, Cologne 26 - 28/10/1997
• IMDAS Presentation Seminar, Stuttgart 29 - 30/10/1997
• November 12^th - Italy information society cultural heritage projects presentation - c/o Italian Ministry of CH - Rome
• Conservation Institute Workshop - Goteborg 17-18-19/11/1997
• IMDAS Presentation Meeting, Stuttgart 18 - 19/11/1997
• Seminar on MuseumInformatics, Vienna 21 - 21/11/1997
• ICOM Austria Annual Meeting, Vienna 27/11/1997
• "Digital Cities" - Berlin - 1-2/12/1997
• Workshop on "Multimedia access", Vienna 4 - 5/12/1997
• December 6^th SalonBit - Torino - Italy
• December 7-9 - Sophia Antipolis
• February 11^th MOSAIC presentation c/o ABI - Roma
• March 4-7 - Imagina Montecarlo
• March 24-25^th CEBIT - Hannover - Germany
• March 26-29^th Mediartech Firenze - Italy
• April 4^th - Ferrara - Italy

The following contacts has been realised:

• Media Designer Assoc. Inc Graz
• Hewlett Packard Europe
• ITALTEL - Italia
• Imation (3M) Europe
• Microsoft (to be signed)
• APPLE (to be signed)
• Hewlett Packard Austria
• AIT - Applied Information Technologies, Gesmbh, Graz
• Soprintendenza degli Abruzzi
• Soprintendenza di Napoli
• Regione Lazio - Assessorato alla Cultura e Turismo
• Ambasciata Francese in Italia
• Zeppelin Museum, Friedrichshafen
• Deutsches Hygienemuseum, Dresden
• Landschaftsverband Süd-Niedersachsen e.V., Northeim
• Übersee-Museum, Bremen
• Haus der Geschichte, Bonn
• Fondazione San Paolo di Torino
• Associazione Bancaria Italiana (ABI)
• Fondation Sophia Antipolis (F)
• Archivio Storico Bulgarini d'Elci
• Centro Catalogazione Beni Culturali Villa Manin - Friuli Venezia Giulia - Italy
• Università di Trieste

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 :

• Research of references (Bibliography, Internet Addresses (E-Mail & URLs), Books, Technical Studies, Sociological Studies, Articles, Technological magazines, ..) in order to define better the quality of the services and to classify user categories.

• Interviews with potential users (institutional representatives in each state, museum managers and curators, universities, publisher, ....). Special session of interviews has been planned at SIGGRAPH (stand Infobyte on which MOSAIC has been presented) and ICHIM 97 (Arenotech and Infobyte stand on which MOSAIC has been presented).

• September 96 - Milan
• Ministère de la Culture - Paris
• December 96 - Schloß-Schönbrunn
• February 97 - Imagina
• April 97 - Publishing Exhibition - Frankfurt
• April 97 - CeBIT Hannover
• May 27^th 97 - Interface Virtuelle - Montpellier
• March 97 - EVA 97 - MOSAIC presentation - Florence
• June 97 - Unesco OCCAM
• June 97 - Ministère de l’Education e de la Culture - Paris
• June 97 - Ministero Cultura y Museo de la Cienca y Tecnica - Madrid
• June 97 - ABI - Tavola Rotonda sul contributo delle banche al patrimonio culturale - Club Mitza, CERAM
• June 2^nd 97 - General Meeting - Rome
• June 5^th 97 - MoU meeting
• June 6^th 97 - Museums Group
• June 17^th 97 - MOSAIC presentation in Paris
• June 23^rd 97 - Meeting in Madrid
• June 24^th 97 - Meeting in ABI
• June 27^th 97 - MOSAIC Presentation in Roma
• June 28^th 97 - MOSAIC Presentation in Sophia Antipolis
• July 6^th /11^th 97 - IEEE ISIE 97 Conference MOSAIC Presentation
• July 26^th /29^th 97 - MOSAIC consortium meeting - Paris
• July 26^th 97 - Gui Marraes - Portugal
• August 2^nd /8^th 97 - SIGGRAPH - Los Angeles
• September 2^nd/8^th 97 - Musees et Hypermedia ICHIM 97 - Auditorium du Louvre, Paris
• September 13^th/15^th 97 - Cultural Heritage Network Hypermedia - Milan

• MOSAIC Web - Management of contact

• Memorandum of Understanding

• Potential partners like CANON, HP, MICROSOFT, SONY, Silicon Graphics, Barco at international level (Europe or World).

• Telecommunications organisations in the world (Telecom, Bell,.etc.)

• Institutions (Ministry of Culture and Education) in all the partner countries, Museums and Galleries in all the partner countries, Ministerio della Cultura de España, Curia di Milano,...

• Local Italian Institutions ( Provincia di Milano, Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Campania, Comune di Roma, ...)

• Universities in Europe (University of Warwick, Gotebörg University - Institute of Conservation, LUISS, University of Jaén, Universities linked to the MOSAIC partners, ..)

• Multi-Media Institutions and Service Providers (CCG Portugal, CapCom)

• Foundation Sophia Antipolis

• UNESCO

• AIACE

• EVA, VASARI, ACM

• Getty Museum

• Deutsche Historische Museum - Berlin

• SecMedia (Watermarking of images and videos)

• Fraunhofer IGD

• TU Darmstadt

• Reunion de Musee de France - Musee Carnavalet

• Athena Association

• ABI - Associazione Bancaria Italiana

• CHIN

• Kim Veltman G7 - SUMS project

• G7 Pilot Projects CARDIO representative

• Centro Regionale di Catalogazione e Restauro dei Beni Culturali del Friuli -Venezia Giulia 

• Kunsthistorishes Museum - Graz

• Getty Conservation Institute

• Museo del Prado - Madrid

• Club Mitza - CERAM

• Galleria Borghese, Valle Giulia - Rome

• Galleria Arte Moderna - Rome

• Musei Capitolini - Rome

• Galleria Ricci Oddi - Milan

The following potential or additional partners has been involved in the interviews and in the meetings:

• CAD Center Corporation Japan, Mr. Y. Hamano: this company will work to enlarge the institutional partners, to build Cultural Service Center and find economic partners in that area.

• Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia : The information retrieval system actually available will be part of the MOSAIC data bank

• 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 a project on study 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 the MOSAIC network.

• The Conservation Information System - Gotebörg University - Institute of Conservation

• University of Jaén

• Musei Capitolini - Roma

• Kunsthistorishes Museum - Graz

• Sovraintendenza di Roma

• CNR - Istituto di Psicologia

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:

• contractual issues clarification and cost statement preparation
• web site in progress upgrading and management
• working meeting organisation:
• up 13^th to 14^th January Meeting in Graz
• 28^th October meeting in Brussels
• secretary project organisation

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:

*referred to the original contract
M/M = man/month the table is referred to the period from May 1997 up to March 1^st 1998
CO= coordinator CT= contractor PO = participating organization SC = sub-contractor of CT/CO

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:

• no synergies
• high level of discrepancies
• lack of a general vision of services and expectations by final users
• low level of understanding of technological possibility of such a network
• low expectations for the creation of an added value or a return of investment
• etc.

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