Project  MOSAIC

Project number : 45527

MOSAIC Consortium

Partner research and economical agreement definition

Summary

Issue : 3

WP 1300

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Table of Contents

Executive Summary

Applied Methodology

Main Results

Content Providers
Technology Providers
Similar Projects

Recommendation and Guidelines

 

 

 

PROJECT TITLE : MOSAIC

WORK PACKAGE Nr. 1300

TASK Nr. 5

Workpackage leader: DISET

Start month: T0 End month: T0+12*

Objectives and approach : PARTNER RESEARCH and ECONOMICAL AGREEMENT DEFINITION

Activities

  • Select partners for enlarge the institutional partners, the center services, the economical sponsors, the industrial producers
  • Organize workshop and meeting to explain the mosaic objectives and to relieve preliminary feedback
  • Define the mutual agreement guidelines in order to activate the cultural heritage product interchange

Responsible Partner of activity

  • DISET

  • ARENOTHEC

  • BDR

Participants Man/Months

DISET 3.5
ARENOTHEC 2
INFOBYTE 1.5
BDR 1.9
ZGDV 1
CINECA 0.5
JRC 0.5

Total Man Months: 10.9

MONITORING

Physical indicators:

 Number of partners Financial indicators: Number of promoters

Deliverables

  • Participation letters list updated
  • Test mutual agreement contract ready to be used during the deployment

Milestones

T0+12 Assessment of feasibility study

*Note: due to the second amendment "Extension of Contract duration" End Month = T0+18


Executive Summary

The scope of this document is to define the state of partner research, including a short presentation of new partners and economical agreement definition with them.

The objectives of the document are the following:

The result is a complex document containing this executive summary, the description of applied methodology, a list of possible kinds of agreements, and the guidelines for MOSAIC.

The 1300 document has an annex containing a short presentation of new partners:

 

Applied Methodology

In this chapter is presented the applied methodology to research partners and economical agreement definition with them. The performed activities are mainly:

Main Results

In this chapter are presented the results of the WPK 1300: the various kinds of agreements. The list of all contacted institution and the results: the complete agreements, the agreements to be signed as soon as possible, and the list of contacted people are contained in ANNEX I

One of the most important objectives of MOSAIC is the creation of a group of different subjects coming from: Museums, Universities, Software Market Leader, Hardware Producer, Telecommunication and/or Entertainment Company. This work-group will promote the creation of a trans-European network aimed to promote, share and resell information related to Cultural Heritage during the feasibility study.

Content Providers
European museums and galleries hold the richest collection of objects, art and cultural wealth than anywhere in the world, but much is not accessible to the public because of lack of space and cost of travel. MOSAIC aims to develop a trans-European framework for electronic network access to museums and galleries, classifying and showing not only what is shown to the public but in addition what is not visible because of lack of exhibition space or, what is not accessible to the public like frescos in access restricted buildings and private offices.
Network access to museums and galleries offers both easier access to Europe's heritage and new revenue for its preservation and display from access and re-use fees.
The main goal of the agreement with content partner is to improve the visibility of cultural heritage, to disseminate knowledge and cultural interchanges amongst nations. One of the fall-outs of these agreements may be the availability of some fees for museums coming from network usage and information downloading. The agreement ensures to museums and galleries better visibility for cultural wealth and openness to the public through web pages, elaboration of multilingual presentations, integration of actual 'back stage' museums information systems in order to provide information to the public both on site and home. The agreement offers to content providers the extension of real exhibition space to virtual-cyber space and the preparation of high-quality publications, exhibitions, conferences and other events.

Technology Providers
The objective of the agreements with hardware producers, software developers and industries a is oriented to establish a technical and commercial basis for trans-European electronic access. The objective is the reutilization of existing products and projects due to activate MOSAIC services

Similar Projects
MOSAIC will offer an efficient information interchange amongst homologous institutions across Europe and amongst organisation and researchers, will create and consolidate a distributed work of art data base able to manage and locate each item across Europe. MOSAIC will define a standard format, based on 'de facto' status, for information systems in order to access and exchange data from different locations;

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 organisations 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 organisations. Shift of paradigm from centralised to co-operative (decentralised) approach - network aspect.
The creation of new areas and economic flows around the valorisation 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.

List of the additional partners:

Europe

Europe branches

Austria

Czech Republic

France

Germany

Italy

Netherlands

Spain

Sweden

Portugal

United Kingdom

United Kingdom

Rest of the World

Canada

China

Egypt

Japan

USA

 

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.

 

Cultural Service Centres

Coordinator

Banca di Roma

  

Austria

CSC Schloss Schoenbrunn
SC Graz

P.O. of DISET

Pole leader and contractor – JRC and AIT

France

CSC Paris

 

CSC Sophia Antipolis

Pole leader and Contractor - Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie
Pole leader and Contractor - Foundation Sophia Antipolis P.O.: Cryo-Networks – Paris and Arenotech - Paris

Germany

CSC – Pole leader and contractor

 

Contractor - ART+COM
ZGDV
P.O. : Centro de Computacao Grafica – Coimbra

Italy

CSC Milano

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

CSC Bologna

 

 

 

CSC Rome

Pole leader and Contractor – DISET
P.O. – without founding - Fondazione Antonio Mazzotta – Milano, Fondazione Ricci Oddi, Piacenza , Fondazione San Paolo di Torino, Italtel SPA, Provincia di Milano, Assessorato alla Cultura e Tempo Libero, Regione Lombardia, Assessorato alla Cultura e Trasparenza – Milano, Silicon Graphics – Milano, Archivio Storico Diocesano di Milano , Hewlett Packard Europe (Belgium)
P.O. - Università degli Studi di Trieste - Dipartimento EI – Trieste, Imation S.p.A (borne of 3M Innovation)
Pole Leader and Contractor – Cineca
3rd party - AIACE - International Association of Computing in Archaeology
P.O. - Università di Bologna - Department of Historical Disciplines
P.O. – without funding – Comune di Bologna,OCCAM-UNESCO
Pole leader - IBY - Contractor IBY and BDR
3rd party - CNR - Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Progetti Museali S.p.A., MUSA
P.O. – without founding - Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna – Roma, Istituto Italiano per l'Industria Culturale - 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, Sovraintendenza delle Antichità e Belle Arti del Comune di Roma, R.I.T.S.E.C. - Regional Information Technology and Software Engineering Center – Egypt, CRC Research Institute Inc., Guggenheim Museum - NY (USA), CAD Center Corporation

Portugal

 

CSC

Pole leader and Contractor - Consortium Geira
(IPM+UM+UTAD) Museu Regional De Arqueuologia D. Diogo De Sousa – Braga, Universidade de Tras-os-montes e Alto Douro

Sweden

CSC

Pole leader and Contractor - Göteborg University - Department of Environmental Science and Conservation - Institute of Conservation
3rd party - Metimur Company (technical Partner)

Spain

CSC

Pole leader and Contractor - Centro de Estudios del Patrimonio – Madrid

 

 

Meetings and Conferences

The following Meetings and Conferences have been held:

 

Contacts

The following contacts has been realised:

 

 

Recommendation and Guidelines

Recommendations are as follows:

 

Annex I - Contacts & Agreements