Over the past year, the MOSAIC consortium has been developing a prototypical European AI-enhanced platform designed to serve as a scalable hub for broadcasters, news creators, distributors, and audiences. This week marked an important milestone in that journey: the first hands-on testing session with external partners.
A focus group was hosted at CCMA, bringing together experts from SONAR and CCMA, representing both content production and news departments. The session focused on evaluating the platform’s usability and real-world relevance, with particular attention to features for searching, adapting, and reusing content. Participants tested capabilities such as automatic transcription generation, subtitling, and dubbing, all within a single integrated workflow.
The focus group was structured around a concrete use case: gathering relevant audiovisual content efficiently. This approach quickly revealed how different user profiles interact with the platform in distinct ways.
For SONAR, a major music festival organisation, the challenge lies in accessing historical content produced across many editions of the festival and dispersed among multiple broadcasters’ archives, including CCMA’s. MOSAIC demonstrated its potential to simplify discovery across fragmented repositories, unlocking valuable cultural and media assets that were previously difficult to retrieve.
By contrast, CCMA users were primarily interested in accessing fresh and timely content. In this context, MOSAIC showed clear value in reducing the complexity of sourcing material directly from original producers and external providers, supporting faster and more streamlined newsroom workflows.
Overall, the session highlighted how a sophisticated, multilingual, and multimodal AI-based system like MOSAIC can leverage rich knowledge repositories, connect producers and media organisations, and transform access to Europe’s cultural heritage, media, and news archives. At the same time, it opens new opportunities for monetisation built on accumulated knowledge and content assets.
The insights gathered during this focus group will directly inform the next development steps, helping ensure that MOSAIC responds to the real needs of diverse users across the media ecosystem.