The mosaic database, which gathers all the informations about the ancient and contemporary mosaic art works, is made up of specific cataloging-descriptive cards, based on the standards elaborated by the ICCD and suitable for the specific features of the art work. The elaboration of the cards has been assigned to some scholarship fellows who have studied at the Faculty of Arts, Preservation of the cultural Heritage and the Shool of mosaic Restoration. They have put their skills at disposal, making an interdisciplinary approach to the study of the mosaic art works possible.

The volume dedicated to the contemporary mosaic makes a synthetic review of the mosaic exhibited in the Museo d’Arte della città di Ravenna, in order to offer an useful instrument of multimedia consultation of the complex informations, which would be impossible to publish completely in volumes. All the texts, which explain the different phases of work and the methodological choises, have been written by the staff museum and some scholarship fellows.