Author: Pascal Drabik

2. Implementation
2.1 Quality of management
Given the small number of partners, the management structure will be minimal. The project coordinator, Prof. Lynda Hardman, CWI, chairs the management board, assisted by Prof. Maarja Kruusmaa, TUT, as deputy coordinator. The management board consists of one representative per partner, takes all strategic decisions and oversees the day-to-day project management.
The project coordinator reports to and liaises with the European Commission, including organising annual review meetings, coordinating regular management reports and ensuring dissemination. At least once a year during a full project meeting external experts will be invited to give feedback on the goals and methods of the project. The project coordinator is responsible for internal project communication and will ensure that scientific progress and dissemination activities are on target. If project progress is endangered through non-performance of any partner the management board as a whole will decide on the action to take. If consensus cannot be reached then in the case of a divided vote the chair of the management board will take the decision. 
2.2 Individual participants and consortium as a whole
Prof. Lynda Hardman, Centre for Mathematics & Computer Science (CWI), provides data and user tasks for fish detection and tracking, participates in determining appropriate melodisations and supervises user evaluations. Prof. Hardman has led the development of visual interfaces for data exploration and trend identification tasks.  A postdoc and a PhD student will be recruited.
Prof. Kristina Höök, Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS), provides data and user tasks for urban soundscapes, participates in determining appropriate melodisations, and guides user evaluations throughout the project. Prof. Höök has led the foundation and growth of the highly successful Mobile Life lab, where art, design and mobile technologies are explored in the context of developing rigourous affective methods. Two researchers will be recruited.
Prof. Maarja Kruusmaa, Tallinn University of Technology (TUT), provides data and user tasks for flows and DPIV data preprocessing, participates in determining appropriate melodisations, and assists with DPIV user evaluations. Prof. Kruusmaa has experience in machine learning, fluid dynamics and hydrodynamic imaging. A Ph.D. student and a postdoc will be recruited.
Prof.s Hardman, Höök and Kruusmaa have many years of experience in EU projects, leading multi-disciplinary teams, including (new media) artists and (textile, fashion and graphic) designers, and publish in international venues. All partners are experienced in rapid cycles of design, implementation and evaluation.
Kristina Andersen, Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM), will supervise the musicians/composers in determining appropriate melodisations with domain partners and oversee the creation of the melodisation framework. STEIM is a leading (inter)national institute for the creation of digital music instruments and performances, deep knowledge of structure of music . Other contributors include Joel Ryan, performer and composer, including for the Ballett Frankfurt.
2.3 Resources to be committed
CWI, SICS and TUT have excellently equipped research labs and software for developing user interfaces. TUT has facilities for experimental fluid dynamics and computer clusters. STEIM has software and studio facilities for generating and testing sound systems.
The MeloD total budget is €2,261,165 of which the requested EC contribution is 76,2% (€1,723,223). Of the total budget, personnel costs are 55% (€1,245,292) comprising 52,5% (€1,194,292) RTD and 2,5% (€51,000) MGMT. Management costs are 5,0% (€109,400) of the total budget. Other direct RTD costs are 4,0% (€97,000), which include travel and consumables.
3. Impact
3.1 Transformational impact on science, technology and/or society
While visual information communication is engrained in our society, the use of sound to explore and interpret data sources is seldom encountered. Our approach is to use not only sound, but higher melodic structures to ensure pleasant long term usage. We will:
• Provide an improved user experience and lowered cognitive load for users monitoring large data sets in our core domains: marine biology, urban exploration and fluid dynamics. 
• Facilitate exploratory inspection of large data sets to reveal patterns and anomalies that might not be perceptible in visual representations of the data. 
• Facilitate trend identification in the overall pattern of change in sets of quantitative data, allowing otherwise unnoticed patterns in the data to emerge.
• Allow users to perform simultaneous tasks that would not be possible with visual analyses.
• Provide a significant contribution to the small but growing body of research on using sound for extracting meaningful information out of data sources. 
• Collaborate with the Sonic Interaction Design community to incorporate successful methods into the work practices of other domain specialists with large data sets.  
• Lead towards fundamental changes in the way data exploration and interpretation can be carried out in other fields with large sets of quantitative data.
The excellent Sonification Handbook that resulted from the ICT COST Action IC0601 Sonic Interaction Design (SID) provides us with a high-quality, freely available comprehensive knowledge source. This allows us to devote our efforts in our domains of expertise. We will invite individual SID COST action participants as experts to our consortium meetings.
3.2 Dissemination and/or use of project results
• Industrial dissemination: depending on the project results and on how easily the method is protectable by IPR we will choose between open-source dissemination and copyright protected source code. No results will be published before the consortium agrees on IPR policy. IPR protected software can be licensed to companies or combined with an open-access development platform.
CWI and SICS are core members of EIT ICT Labs and will use the network to transfer the results of the research into small start-ups or to larger member companies.
Links will be established with companies in the Netherlands in the context of the Top Sector policy in the Creative Industry sector and with companies with Big Data applications.
Archiving of source code will be coordinated with the SID & ICAD communities (http://www.icad.org) and will contain examples of the melodisations. The software produced will be compatible with existing user interface development tools and open-source platforms.
• Educational dissemination is done mainly though offering thesis topics for undergraduates from both engineering and humanities. The artistic touch of the topic will help to increase interest of female students in engineering and science. 
• Academic dissemination is done in conventional ways by publishing papers in relevant workshops, conferences and journals in the fields of SID, as well as the three domains chosen: marine biology, urban exploration and fluid dynamics. Three technical workshops will be held, one for each domain, towards the end of the project to disseminate results to the specific fields. 
A project website will hold all relevant project information and our findings. The website will remain live for at least 5 years after the end of the project.
We will edit a book that gives an overview of the project results and related work. This will be accompanied by a website with sound examples. 
• Public interest will be stimulated through mainstream media channels and by organizing "data analysis" concerts, club music events and sending "data analysis soundtracks" to DJs.