TITLE : Progress Report |
WRITTEN BY : M.Borghi
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MOSAIC Consortium
Table of Contents
1. SUMMARY 3
2. MANAGEMENT 3
3. TECHNICAL 7
4. PO PROGRESS 14
5. ANNEX A : MOSAIC ACTION ITEMS LIST 15
6. ANNEX B : CONFIGURATION STATUS ACCOUNTING LIST 16
7. ANNEX C : PLANNING 16
The document describes the main activities in MOSAIC done by Contractors and Participating Organisation during the initial quarter May/June/July.
The main management activities performed have been:
contractual issues clarification (Kick-off meeting) and P.O. subcontract preparation and signature
web site organization, definition and activation
project standard and tools definition
MOSAIC Flyer design
Report format design
meeting organization :
May 29th 1997 MOSAIC kick-off - Brussels
June 2nd 1997 MOSAIC internal kick-off - Rome
June 5th 1997 MOSAIC presentation MOU event - Brussels
June 27th 1997 MOSAIC presentation day - Rome
July 28th 1997 "Entretiens de Paris sur le devenir de l'action culturelle - europeenne" - Paris
July 29th 1997 Coordination Meeting - Paris
secretary-project organisation and start-up
During the Paris meeting the following agenda has been proposed :
13th September - Working meeting in Milan (organised by Politecnico di Milano)
Third week of October - Working meeting in Paris (organized by Arenothec)
Third week of November - Mid term review with demonstration session (to be organized in accordance with suggestions of Eu Commission)
Third week of December - Working meeting at Darmstadt or at Graz
Each meeting will be organised on two days:
first day for the working in progress analysis and the review or discussion of the WP documents
second day for the presentation of the project to the potential partners looking for new sponsors
The MOSAIC web has been created in order to manage the project and disseminate information to all the partners and contractors (http ://mosaic.bancaroma.it ). 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 Contractors"), (2) Additional Partners (other Cultural Operators) (3) How to join (how to obtain more info, to receive an account for MOSAIC, to support MOSAIC, to send remarks/suggestions)
"Project" - information about : (1) Contractual Documentation (Contract, Planning, Deliverables List, Work Packages), (2) Technical Documentation, (3) Events (MOASIC events), (4) Dead line check and control(MOSAIC deliverables), (4) Report
"Other Project"- web links of MOSAIC related projects. Actually new links have been added to the following EU projects : AQUARELLE, CHIO, IMPRIMATUR, MOU
"Info" - abstract of MOSAIC project
"Forum" to have a cyber-net debate about MOSAIC and spread the cultural heritage dissemination.
"Demos" presentation of tools, services and applications related to the MOSAIC project.
"News" contains a list of MOSAIC related events and a "Press" area
"Intranet" contains useful documents for entities involved in MOSAIC project. At moment is present: Documentation (Digital library, Related non-EU projects, MOSAIC logo forum), Download Area (standard document, report layout, compression tools, telecommunication tools, Site download)
"Web Tools" contains tools for MOSAIC web users. A demo for 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.
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.
An open e-mail has been activated on the web. It is mosaic@bancaroma.it.
The four registration forms for "Potential Partners", "Information Request", "User Registration", "Remarks" have been activated.
July 1st the output of workpackage 1100 (Survey on the state of the Art) has been inserted on the MOSAIC web both in HTML and .doc format
July 7th a new MOSAIC web zipped version is downloadable
The MOSAIC communication and presentation tape is in progress.
The divulgation meeting abstracts have been translated and they will be available on the web in September.
The following table illustrates a synthesis of the work in progress.
WP number |
description |
status |
| WP 1100 | Survey of the "state of the art" | in progress |
| WP 1200 | Market plan | starting |
| WP 1300 | Partner search and economical agreement definition | 20% |
| WP 1400 | Target User profile definition | 75% |
| WP 1500 | Requirements definition, tools, service centers, application | starting |
| WP 1600 | Study for the reuse of existing applications into the defined architecture | |
| WP 1700 | Architecture definition and tools definition | |
| WP 1800 | Dissemination of results | |
| WP 1900 | Management | 25% |
| WP 2000 | CSC model demonstrator | 10% |
Planning modification has been introduced to improve the feasibility study.
Due to the presence of important events in August (Siggraph 97 - Los Angeles) and in September (ICHIM 97 - Paris), we decided to update our acknowledge with the outputs of these conferences and update the WP 1100 (survey on the state of the art). Similar considerations have been done for the WP 1400. In fact in both manifestations interviews were scheduled to obtain info to refine the WP 1400 document. WP 1500 is scheduled on time because it will start anyway on the base of the existing draft.
The WP 2000, has been activated in order to obtain some tools and services on line. The main elements will be presented in the demo area of the mosaic web.
The main technological goals of the next events, are :
August 1st – 10th: ACM Siggraph 97 in Los Angeles – annual international conference and exhibition devoted to computer graphics and multimedia. Is still one of the easier world-wide occasion to meet in one site and in a few days only experts, researchers and top line companies (please refer to Siggraph 97 web-www.siggraph.org/s97/).
TEN telecom programme is a market oriented framework, the main issue of TEN projects is to create and deliver trough the network new ‘smart’ services mainly using or re-using existing technologies (this is not a research framework). MOSAIC is consequently based on networks, VR and hypermedia applications selected from the full range of existing and quickly evolving technologies. The WPK 1100 outlined some of such technologies like "flashpix" hi-res imaging system (Kodak, MS, HP ..), SUMS programme universal media searching system, HTML 3.2 active pages, VRML, infinity resolution IVR and so on. People and companies working on such technologies will be at Siggraph and on such occasion will probably outline the future developments of their studies. This will be useful to consolidate the development of MOSAIC and create joint projects. MOSAIC will probably take advantage of using "Lightscape" capability to navigate in real time VR fine digital reconstruction of architectural artworks. Hi performance, low price head mounted display will be probably used in MOSAIC Cultural Service Centers or home based applications and the same may apply to 3D navigation devices. Canadian indexing systems are surely world-wide very well known. Attending Siggraph we will meet and enforce even existing relationships with such companies. Some meetings with experts and companies are already scheduled. Due to the even increasing market and high speed of development in IT we plan to update and tune our survey on the state of art and consequently MOSAIC standards (WP 1400 and WP 1500) before the completion of the first year, this thanks to a continuous tracking on emerging technologies and new markets.
On this occasion we will propose a presentation of MOSAIC project first year results as contribution to Siggraph 98 (Orlando FL). We think that MOSAIC will guarantee a multimedia access to Europe’s cultural heritage but as preliminary studies carried out on the possible markets have outlined that USA, CANADA and Japan will probably be the major markets for "Europe’s Cultural Services" and in this perspective disseminating results and techniques at Siggraph "stage" is surely a good start. To reach this goal we have to work very hard with the ACM technical committee.
August 11th – 13th: meetings in San Francisco with SGI, Xerox and other companies for preliminary discussion of technical and economical agreement linked to WPK 1300, 1400, 1600 and 1700
August 14th – 16th: meeting in Redmond (Seattle) Microsoft headquarters for preliminary discussion of technical and economical agreement linked to WPK 1300, 1400, 1500 and 2000
Both the meeting in San Francisco and Seattle are mainly devoted to keep in touch with research centres and technology providers like Xerox PARC leader in human/machine interfaces and network technology or Microsoft laboratories market leader also for home market. And particularly speaking about the role of Microsoft they are actually a reference point for high volume market (the main market to fund cultural heritage services – a big amount of small fees). Another reason to meet people from SGI, Netscape, Apple and Microsoft is the real possibility to promote MOSAIC solution on the market, at least for the first year of implementation, taking advantage of distribution channels linked to widely diffused operating systems and network browsers. The global potential market offered by the internet forces to solve the market approach globally, one possible scenario for MOSAIC may be a bundled system with the most popular products distributed world-wide instead of a never ending sequence of separate agreement with each institution and country. Try to solve self-funding problem using on line transactions, prepaid services and other possible solution in the first period seems not to be the best solution to create a non-existing market.
August 17th – 20th: meeting in Toronto (Canada) with Prof. Kim Veltman’s equipe devoted to SUMS project application to MOSAIC. SUMS (System for Universal Media Searching) was foreseen as primary "search engine" for MOSAIC internet applications.
During this period the activities done are mainly related to the WP 1100, 1300, and 1400.
The WP 1100 document has been delivered, but an upgrading is still in progress as above mentioned.
The WP 1300 is in progress and the relevant part of the contact can be summarised as follows :
Meetings & Presentations
EVA 97 Florence – MOSAIC presentation
May 29th Kick Off
June 2nd General Meeting
June 5th MoU meeting
June 6th Museums Group
June 17th MOSAIC presentation in Paris
June 23th Meeting in Madrid
June 24thmeeting in ABI
June 27th MOSAIC Presentation in Roma
June 28thMOSAIC Presentation in Sophia Antipolis
July 6th/11th IEEE ISIE 97 Conference MOSAIC Presentation
July 26th/29th Mosaic consortium meeting - Paris
Main Actions
MOSAIC Web - management of contact
Contacts - Memorandum of Understanding
Contacts with potential partners like CANON, HP, MICROSOFT, SONY, Silicon Graphics, Barco at international level (Europe or World).
Contacts with telecommunications organisation in the world (Telecom, Bell,.etc.)
Contacts with Institutions (Ministry of Culture and Education in all the partner countries, Museums, Galleries, Ministerio della Cultura de Espana, Curia di Milano, ..)
Contacts with local Italian Institution ( Regione Friuli Venezia Giulia, Emilia Romagna, Lazio, Campania,...)
Contacts with Universities in Europe (University of Warwick, Goteborg University - Institute of Conservation, LUISS, Universities linked to the MOSAIC partners,..)
Contacts with MultiMedia Institutions and Service Providers (CCG Portugal, CapCom)
Contacts with the Foundation Sophia Antipolis
Contacts with UNESCO
Contacts with EVA
Contacts with Getty Museum
Contacts with Deutsche Historische Museum, Berlin
Contacts with Athena association
Contacts with VASARI
Contacts with ABI
Contacts with CHIN
Contacts with Kim Veltman G7 - SUM project
Contacts with G7 Pilot Projects CARDIO representative
The following partners has been involved in the activities and in the meetings of the project:
Cad Center Corporation Japan, Mr. Y. Hamano: this company will work to enlarge the institutional partners, to build the Cultural service center and find economical partners in that area.
MAE: the Italian Ministry of Foreign Affairs follows the project and helps the consortium in the relation with institutions of other countries.
ABI: the Associazione Bancaria Italiana has on study a project to manage all the images of the most important cultural properties of the Italian Banks and to make electronic links. They could agree on linking this activity to Mosaic network.
The Conservation Information System - Goteborg University - Institute of Conservation
Infocity project - TEN TELECOM : A letter of cooperation has been received and actually is under analysis.
The WP 1400 due activities are manly :
research of references (Bibliography, Internet Address (E-Mail & URLs), Books, Technical Studies, Sociological Studies, Articles, Technological magazines, ..) in order to better define the quality of the services and to classify the user categories.
interviews with potential users (institutional representatives in each state, museums manager and curator, universities, publisher, ....). The synthesis of this work is in progress and new session of interviews has been planned in Siggraphs (stand Infobyte on which Mosaic will be presented) and ICHIM 97 (stand Arenotech and Infobyte on which MOSAIC will be presented).
Actually the document contains the description of the major categories of target user ( Institutions / Museums, Students, Scholars, Researchers, Professors, Managers (Conservatore), Restorator, Artists, Technicians, Publishers, Tourists, Tourist Operators / Agency, Authors, Advertisement, Sponsors, Libraries, Image Agency, Photographers, Merchandise Producers , Art Broker, Interpol / Carabinieri,... ). The first issue of the document will be delivered after the ICHIM manifestation second week of September.
| WP’s | Responsible Partner of activity and Deliverables | |
| 1 - WP1100 Survey on the state of the art Responsible : DISET : T0 -> T0+1 Milestones : none |
Deliverables :
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- WP1200 Market Plan Responsible : BDR : T0+3->T0+10 Milestones : T0+12 Assessment on feasibility study |
Deliverables :
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- WP1300 Partner Research and Economical Agreement Definition Responsible : DISET T0->T0+12 Milestones : T0+12 Assessment on feasibility study |
Deliverables :
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- WP1400 Target User Profile Definition Responsible : ARENOTECH T0->T0+4 (delay of one month) Milestones : none |
Deliverables :
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- WP1500 Requirements, Tools, Service Centers, Application Responsible : INFOBYTE : T0+3-> T0+6 Milestones : T0+6 Requirements review |
Deliverables :
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- WP1600 Study for the Reuse of existing Application into the Defined Architecture Responsible : Joanneum Research : T0+6->T0+9 Milestones : none |
Deliverables :
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- WP1700 Architecture Definition and tools definition Responsible : INFOBYTE T0+6->T0+9 Milestones : none |
Deliverables :
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- WP1800 Dissemination of results Responsible : DISET T0+9->T0+12 Milestones : T0+12 Assessment on feasibility study |
Deliverables :
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- WP1900 Management of the MOSAIC project for the feasibility study Responsible : BDR T0->T0+12 Milestones : T0+12 Assessment of feasibility study |
Deliverables :
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- WP2000 CSC model demonstrator Responsible : CINECA T0+8->T0+12 Milestones : T0+12 Assessment on feasibility study |
Deliverables :
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The contract between Infobyte and Arenotech has been signed in the 2nd June 1997.
ANNEX A : MOSAIC Action Items List
(updated: 31/07/97)
| Ref.: | Orig. Date & Ref.: |
Action Short Description | Responsible | Expected date: | Status |
| Meeting of Paris 28th July 1997 | produce internal monthly progress report to be sent at BDR at the end of each month | all partner | 1st September 1997 | open |
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| WP 1200 planning | define the document layout and activate the joint team for the WP 1200 | BDR | 20th August 1997 | open |
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| WP 1500 planning |
define the document layout and activate the joint team for the WP 1500 | INFOBYTE | 20th August 1997 | open |
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| September 97 meeting | define the detailed agenda and organise the technical and dissemination meeting | DISET | 1st of September 1997 | open |
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| October 97 meeting |
define the detailed agenda and organize the technical and dissemination meeting | ARENOTECH | 1st October 1997 | open |
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| mid term review meeting | define with UE commission the expected documents. Decide the meeting site Graz or Darmstadt . | BDR | 1st October 1997 | open |
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| November meeting | define the agenda and organise the technical and dissemination meeting | ZGDV or JRC | 1st November 1997 | open |
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| December meeting | define the agenda and organise the technical and dissemination meeting | JRC or ZGDV | 1st December 1997 | open |
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| mosaic web | translate the document in French language | ARENOTECH | September 1997 | open |
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| mosaic web | translate the document in German and Spanish language | ZGDV | September 1997 | open |
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| mosaic tape | The MOSAIC tape is under preparation by BDR. Contribution are expected in U-MATIC tape. | all partner | 1st September 1997 | open |
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| mosaic web | activate the web in Italian language | CINECA | September 1997 | open |
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| MOSAIC LOGO | prepare the MOSAIC suggested logos and select the final logo from a short list. | all partner | 27th July 1997 | closed |
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| payment from UE | distribute percentage of founding to the partner | BDR | 27th July 1997 | closed |
ANNEX B : CONFIGURATION STATUS ACCOUNTING LIST
None
ANNEX C : PLANNING - (next page)