During the initial reporting period, the project completed most of the end-user (LEA) definition and priorisation of use-cases, user-stories, end-user requirements, the overall technical architecture and the initial set of system specifications of the tools. The requirements, system specifications, and system architecture are revisited and updated if needed after each of the 6 full-development cycles scheduled for the project. During the initial period pre-existing background technologies were adapted to comply with the agreed ASGARD interfaces.
During the second period (months 19 to 36), three full-development cycles have been completed and presented/evaluated by the consortium at three "hackathon" events (months 21, 27, and 33). During this period, the effort has been focused on development and delivery of new tools or of wrappers or enhancements to pre-existing tools. In total, around 50 tools were delivered. Not all tools are equally mature, some are at their early stages of development/maturity and some others are quite mature. During the 4th hackathon, it was identified the need to report the maturity of the tools being delivered, thus a task-force was launched to design and implement a tool maturity evaluation model, process, and tool. The Alpha version of the model and of the tool has been mainly developed during this second period and it will be delivered on the 6th hackathon event (which is part of the next reporting period).
Also during this period, relevant stakeholders were proactively reached, inviting them to join the Stakeholder Advisory Group (SAG) and also to attend our hackathon events. By the end of the second period, the SAG of the project includes 5 members in the Strategic Group (EUROPOL, ENLETS, ENFSI, PSCE, INTERPOL), 24 members in the Operational Group (EFSI, EE Police, HP, IGPR, PMM, GARDA, OKOKRIM, PSNI, BW police, BKA, SW Police, Zürich police, ERTZ, AT DEF, INTERPOL (Lyon), EC3, ECTC, INCIBE, ZITIS, San Sebastian Police, Spanish National Police, Gendarmerie, Slovenian Police), 4 members of the Industry Group (Telefónica, BT, Eurocrime, NEC), and 13 members of the Research and Academia Group (FREETOOLS, TENSOR, I-LEAD, ILEANet, Vox-Pol, DANTE, TAKEDOWN; RAMSES and FORENSOR projects, CEPOL, ASA, CERIDES, JRC, L3CE). In total: 46 organisations represented in the SAG from more than 15 countries.
Moreover, during the second period, the content management process (including the social, ethical, legal, and privacy assessment) was refined and implemented. There is a dataset registry that by the end of the second period had 186 datasets from different sources covering a wide range of use cases, including dataset ID, SELP Unit approval status (97 SELP approved), availability for ASGARD (172 available), name, source, use case and description established.
