Project  MOSAIC

Partner from Proposal (1996)

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Europe

Austria

Czech Republic

France

Germany

Italy

Netherlands

Portugal

Russia

Spain

Sweden

United Kingdom

Rest of the World

Canada

China

Egypt

Japan

USA

Introduction and HP's purpose
Hewlett-Packard Company designs, manufactures and services electronic products and systems for measurement, computing and communication used by people in industry, business, engineering, science, medicine and education.
HP's basic business purpose is to accelerate the advancement of knowledge and improve the effectiveness of people and organizations. The company's more than 25,000 products include computers and peripheral products, electronic test and measurement instruments and systems, networking products, medical electronic equipment, instruments and systems for chemical analysis, handheld calculators and electronic components.
Computing
HP's midrange computers today offer the performance of mainframe computers at a much lower cost. In the mid-1980s, HP was the first major company to introduce a number of computers based on an innovative technology known as reduced-instruction-set computing, or RISC. HP now offers the industry's broadest selection of RISC-based computers.
Most of the company's revenue comes from a broad range of computer products and services, including workstations, personal computers and peripherals -- such as Digital Audio Tape (DAT) mechanisms and tape backup systems, printers, scanners and multifunction printer-fax-copier scanners.
HP is the world's No. 1 revenue leader for RISC systems and UNIX system-based computers and the world's No. 2 supplier of powerful workstations for engineering and business applications. HP also is one of the fastest-growing personal-computer companies in the world.
PCs and more
HP's PC products include the Pavilion family of PCs for home users, the OmniGo 100 handheld organizer and the checkbook-size 200LX palmtop PC with built-in Pocket Quicken. Users often need to link their computers for better and easier access to information. HP manufactures and services networking products to help customers connect HP computers as well as those of other manufacturers. The company is a leader in the movement to create standards that will allow all computers -- from PCs to mainframes -- to be linked in "open systems."
HP is the world's leading supplier of hardcopy products that set the standard for technology, performance and reliability. HP's market-leading products include LaserJet and DeskJet printers, DesignJet large-format printers, ScanJet scanners, OfficeJet all-in-ones and CopyJet color printer-copiers.
HP has become one of the world's top computer service and support companies. The company's 35 response centers and support offices in 110 countries give customers 24-hour-a-day access to HP anywhere in the world. HP also offers a broad range of consulting, management and finance services to give customers cost effective, timely and easy access to information.
HP introduced the world's first scientific handheld calculator-- the HP-35 -- in 1972, and it quickly made the engineer's slide rule obsolete. Today, HP makes some of the world's most sophisticated and compact business and scientific calculators.
HP is extending the frontiers of fiber-optic, wireless and visual communications through its more than 9,000 component products that help people communicate quickly, reliably and cost effectively.

Data Storage Products Fact Sheet
Imation is the world's leading supplier of branded removable data storage media for digital applications. Imation's magnetic and optical data storage media are market leaders in a number of data storage applications, including backup and restore, near-line, archival and secondary data storage, data transfer, software distribution and large-file management.
Engineered and manufactured in some of the industry's most advanced laboratories and factories, Imation's data storage products have been recognized for high quality and reliability in numerous user surveys. Among its key assets are co-development relationships with industry leaders such as Hewlett-Packard, IBM, StorageTek, Compaq, Seagate, Matsushita-Kotobuki Electronics, Ltd. (MKE), O.R. Technology, NEC, Exabyte and PGSoft, Inc.
Imation supplies users with a full line of data storage media, including minicartridges based on its proprietary Travan™ technology, the newly announced LS-120 diskette, standard 1.44 megabyte (MB) diskettes, data cartridges, half-inch cartridges, rewritable optical disks, 4mm and 8mm helical scan tape media, reel tape and CD-ROM products.

Since its inception in 1975, Microsoft’s mission has been to create software for the personal computer that empowers and enriches people in the workplace, at school and at home. Microsoft’s early vision of a computer on every desk and in every home is coupled today with a strong commitment to Internet- related technologies that expand the power and reach of the PC and its users. As the world’s leading software provider, Microsoft strives to produce innovative products that meet customers’ evolving needs.
Microsoft® products include operating systems for personal computers, server applications for client/server environments, business and consumer productivity applications, and interactive media programs, and Internet platform and development tools. Microsoft also offers online services, sells personal computer books and input devices, and researches and develops advanced technology software products. Microsoft products in more than 30 languages and sold in more than 50 countries, are available for most PCs, including Intel microprocessor-based computers and Apple computers.

mediaDesigner is an international companu with a subsiduary in Graz. They are involved in developing, producing and selling networks, content, hardware and software products for the growing telecommunications market.
The vision of the company is to run regional content networks. It is their goal to establish 100 of these RCNs up to the 2003. The Internet TV sets used throughtout these projects are developed in cooperation with market leaders such as Oracle and Apple.
Their production knowledge enables them to generate efficient content using state of the art technology. Incorporating optimized job processing, incorporating optimized job processing, standardizing connection techniques and efficient work flow, they standards and will market this concept with their franchise partners internationally.

Company departments:
research and development

• touch screen productions
• video conferencing systems
• in and out door kiosk systems

• content production
• screen design, web design
• CD-ROM production
• database management
• video editing (QT,QTVR, DV)
• video server solutions

• regional content networks
• ADSL networks
• highband networks
• public sector informations networks

Profile:
TBW

Agreement as Content Provider with Association Leonard de Vinci Pole Universitaire Leonard de Vinci - l'Institut d'Economie de la Culture – Paris

Profile:
TBW

BARCO, founded back in 1934, has since grown into a European leading technology group with allure. BARCO stands for visualization, communications, automation, graphic systems and intrapreneurship. As a group, BARCO sets its sights more than ever before on global markets.
BARCO operates worldwide and seeks permanent market and quality leadership in different technological areas. With constant enthusiasm, high-quality R&D and flexibility, the group targets niche markets and produces a constant stream of product innovations.
Creativity and motivation are the key to the group’s success in the form of growing turnover and profitability, a comfortable technological lead and steadily expanding activities.
To maintain this success into the future, BARCO believes rock-solidly in intrapreneurship and in autonomous operating companies, split up into different product groups. In each of these product groups associates work together in small, tight teams with flat hierarchies. In this way each associate is totally involved in all aspects of management (marketing, sales, engineering and manufacturing), permitting very rapid adjustment to clients’ technical needs.
Participation is at the heart of Human Resources management at BARCO.

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.

Cite des Sciences has already built and deployed a multimedia internal platform (Cite Heart of Network), delivering cultural and scientific services inside the temporary and permanent exhibit.
A Mosaic II ressource center can be identified with the extension of the deployment and accessibility places like the Mediatheque, the multimedia library and Science Actuality site.

These sites are already dedicated to learning and upskilling, in non-commercial conditions.
Cite des Sciences intends to upgrade the software of its platform so that multilingual and multisites use is allowed and controlled. A first high bandwidth Network can be built between the three French sites, and extended to foreign ones depending of international links possibility.
This network will be extended and largely disseminated between a " High Bandwidth Multimedia Club " between metropolitan communities and networked cities that cite has created from its experience.

A selection of existing multimedia contents will be adapted and delivered to the different ressource centers. These contents have strong scientific, cultural and pedagogic characteristics.
As an example :

• monthly magazine Science Actuality, in three qualities, internet, medium bandwidth, high bandwidth.
• Virtual Exhibit on Electricity (intended for children of 6 to 12)
• " Relief de l’invisible ", an application and videos about materia structure
• " Regate " a multimedia collective game showing the dynamics of maritime navigation

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The role of Sophia Antipolis is the same now as when it was founded twenty years ago: to create and develop an economic centre focusing on high technology so that the Provence-Alpes-Cote d’Azur region., already world-famous for its tourist attractions, can become one of the major contres of economic development in Southern Europe. The role of the organisation which manages Sophia Antipolis; SAEM SOPHIA ANTIPOLIS COTE D-AZUR, is to develop it by concentrating know-how and encouraging innovation. This policy is implemented in a number of ways: for example, companies and institutions receive tax concessions and technical assistance from the national and regional governament, and emphasis is placed on high added value businesses and their essential accompaniments – research and development.

There are currently more than 1,045 companies and other institutions in Sophia Antipolis, all active in state of the art technologies such as data processing, telecommunications, energy, pharmacology, medical products and bio-technology. 98 of these companies and institutions are foreign-owned, mainly American, such as ANDERSEN CONSULTING TECHNOLOGY PARK, ROCKWELL SEMICONDUCTOR SYSTEMS, BAY NETWORKS, CISCO, VLSI TECHNOLOGY WIRELESS COMMUNICATIONS RESEACH, DIGITAL EQUIPMENT-CTE, ALLERGAN, CORDIS, LABORATOIRE ELAIAPHARM. Other important institutions include the IMRA Advanced Research Institute (Japan) and German companies such as CODAN, HENKEL, and GECAP.

Activities can be divided into four main sectors:

• data processing / electronics / robotics / telecommunications / multimedia
• health / chemistry / biotechnology
• research / education
• energy / environment and materials

The first of these sectors is by far the largest with companies like Thomson Marconi Sonar, France Telecom, Digital Equipment and VLSI Technology Wireless Communications Research. Fundamental research, development and application of data processing and telecommunications technology are represented by such diverse institutions as the INRIA (France’s National Data Processing and Automatic Control Research Institute), Amadeus Development and the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standard Instute).
The potential of companies operating from Sophia Antipolis is boosted by the nearby presence of IBM, Texas Instruments and Aerospatiale.
Seven of the major companies with broad telecommunications competence – PARADYNE INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, AEROSPATIALE, DIGITAL EQUIPMENT, ETSI, FRANCE TELECOM, IBM and TEXAS INSTRUMENTS – have joined to form the TELECOM VALLEY association whose goal is to promote telecommunications expertise in the area and encourage future growth.
The "health / chemistry / biology" sector is represented by international companies like Dow Corning, Dow Elanco, Rohm and Haas, Cordis, Allergan, Laboratoire Elaiapharm, The European Heart House, the CIRD Galderma and French companies and laboratories like Rhone Poulenc Agro, Genevrier, Biolandes Technologies, and the molecular biology laboratory operated jointly by CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) and Nice University.

The "earth sciences" sector covers the sciences relating to petroleum, water and new energy sources (solar, photovoltaic, biomass), as well as material research. The ADEME (French Environment & Energy Agency), the International Water office (International Water Resources Management Training Centre), and the CNRS (National Scientific Research Centre) are all in charge of research oriented activities and cooperating with countries in Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania.

• The major international groups which are leaders in their respective fields and the small and medium-size businesses operating on the site provide by 17,030 jobs, of which 49,4% are in executive position.
• 5,5% of the organisations have more than 50 employees, and account for 53,2% of the total jobs. Amadeus and Thomson Marconi Sonar are the site’s largest employers with workforces of respectively 688 and 857 employees.
• 22,1% of the organisations employ between 10 to 49 people, accounting for a further 30,9% of the total workforce.
• 72,5% of the organisations have fewer than 10 employees and account for 16% of total jobs.
• Since the first employer began operating in 1974, 72,3% of the jobs have been locally created, the remaining 27,7% having been transferrred from other locations.

Technologies represented at Sophia Antipolis
Because of its geographic location and its international role, Sophia Antipolis combined all the qualities to make it a key telecommunications pilot site. The Alpes-Maritimes regional authority and France-Telecom have signed an "Advanced Telecommunications Area" agreement under which a telecommunications system has been installed based on an innovative architecture combining three principles: the use of optical fibre in a 500 Km star network, the decentralisation of "intelligent" equipment and the combination of two networks (optical and digital).
France Telecom’s range of "Trans" services (Transfix, Transcom, Trandsyn and Videodyn) are available for data communications and there is a port into the Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN).
From the beginning of 1996, record breaking trasmission speed of 155 megabits/second is provided thanks to ATM technology and more particulary to the ATM Pilot Platform.
The collaboration between local institutions and France Telecom has encouraged FT to set up at Sophia Antipolis a 10,000 sqm complex housing the THESEUS research institute, the CNET (Business Communication Research Centre) and Agora (France Telecom’s international shop windows) to complement the ETSI (European Telecommunications Standard Institute).

Sim Team is a new French society in VR market. It's the French division of Virtual Presence, English society born in 1991.
Its capital of 580.000FF is divided between Virtual Presence and 3 Franch associated: Pascal Chevalier, Philippe Limantour et Christine Treguier. Their activities are consulting about integration and development of application and use of VR.
Sim Team is distributor of Virtual Presence VR equipment. Virtual Presence is the major European distributor of VR products in various markets: engeneering, distribution, design, medical, education, but in particular cultural (Cultural Heritage, , scientific installations, etc.)

Christine Treguier is specially interested in this sector and proposes herself to be interlocutor with MOSAIC project and contribute at contacts with France national museums.

Since its recent creation in 1997, Ziggourat Communications has opened a Multimedia and 3D Training Program, as well as presenting the first magazine for pratical, interactive multimedia interests and skills, Red Green Blue.
The Multimedia and 3D Training Program provides training for interactive multimedia, desk-top publishing and production of 3D images on Macintosh and PC. Located in the center of Paris, in the Marais quarter, its 500 m2 of training rooms are equiped with high-performance material and video projectors (650 lumens).
Red Green Blue is a monthly magazine of 36 pages, distributed through subscriptions and also in some Parisian bookstores, the Fnac and the Relais H. Red Green Blue is published in four color tones on high-quality paper (135gr). It offers technical and practical articles for professionals dealing with desk-top publishing programs, as well as 3D, interactive on and off-line multimedia programs.
Ziggourat Communications produces a CD-Rom of Sounds and is currently producing a CD-Rom on Mesopotamia, in collaboration with the CNRS (Centre National de Recherche Scientifique).

AIACE is a non profit Association, it is apolitical and it is open to italian and foreign partners, public, private, society and corporate body, consortium and associations
Principal aims of the Association:

• Mobility of human and technological resources
• Research projects development in cooperation with Scientific Centers, Universities and private societies in the field of Computing in Archaeology
• The auspicious goal of AIACE is to constitute a specific High School of Specialization in the field of Computing in archaeology
• Developing research projects and applications mainly in the following fields:
• GIS and Remote Sensing
• Multimedia
• Digital Image Processing
• Expert Systems
• Database
• Statistics
• Virtual Reality
• Uses and Management Network
• Scientific Visualization
• Simulations
• Computer Graphics
• Robotics
• Archaeometry
• CAD end Solid Modelling
• Didactics

The regional cataloguing Center of Villa Manin was established to proceed in a systematic cataloguing of the cultural and environmental heritage of the region Friuli-Venezia Giulia and creating the relative inventory, integrating the protective measures already exercised by the State. With annual cataloguing campaigns the Center has created the regional Catalogue of cultural heritage. During 1997 the Center has been working on a project of computerization of the data of the forms which were conformed to the ICCD structure. Following this work (which also includes the normalization of definitions using controlled vocabularies, the creation of authority files for authors and bibliography and the image entry) all the loaded data will be available on an internal network and part of it will be present on an INTERNET site by the end of 1997.
The developed software allows to store on a computer all the information, no matter if it is text or image, on the Cultural heritage owned by the region and to retrieve it using queries made by any user connected to the Intranet network. The project is based on the INTRANET technology: in this way you can have access to the information by using the standard HTML browser installed on a client computer that reaches via LAN or WAN the server in which the site and the data base containing the information on the cultural items is hosted. Moreover access to information is controlled allowing only qualified users and there is the possibility of having different level access to the information. By doing this we can prevent normal users from reaching private information on an item such as, for example, its location. Finally, the use of INTRANET technology allows an immediate and easy transfer of the data bank on an INTERNET site.

The Centre has recently decided to start a project for the creation of a G.I.S. for the regional cultural heritage. To check the possibilities of these technologies the Centre and the Department have decided to experiment it on a standard area. The information has been fully computerised and georeferenced and has been integrated in a G.I.S. which outlines the functions which interest the Centre. Procedures for a geographical access to the Centre’s data bank have been elaborated enabling research of the content of a database and visualisation of associated fixed or moving images starting from the cartography. Zooming and pan within a window and possibility of placing it automatically in other windows to analyse, for example, the modifications of the use of the land in different periods of time. The experience and the result have been quite positive and the Centre has decided to continue this project. Furthermore the possibility of creating an INTRANET/INTERNET site with G.I.S. functions is being examined.

After the 1976, the Center had expanded its activity of restoration of cultural items and of organization of courses for restorers. The Center also carries out archeological research and activity based on the protection, knowledge and exploitation of cultural heritage particularly by organizing meetings and publishing books.

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Art Bank is the first bank of art: artist for artist of the complete works realized and their value for sale characteristics:
Art Bank operates in fields as:

• painting
• engraving
• drowing

30000 file cards on artist in the whole world from the origins up to all off 1700. The images up to today taken are more then 500000. Every single card has the following informations about each single artist.

• surname, name
• nickname
• period of life or activity
• works produced ( images )
• activity
• type of arguments
• place of activity
• au