CIMAD - A Framework For The Development Of Context-Aware and Multi-Channel Cultural Heritage Services

Cultural Heritage is becoming a greater attraction factor for tourism worldwide and many countries are aiming to offer lower-cost, but higher-quality, content and services that can provide better visibility to their museums, sites and landscapes. The CIMAD project, “Common Infrastructure/Context Influenced Mobile Acquisition and Delivery of cultural heritage data" presented in this paper is a framework concerned with the development of cultural heritage “services” designed and implemented within the EU Network of Excellence EPOCH – Excellence in Processing Open Cultural Heritage. CIMAD aims to address a range of context-aware and multi-channel services in the cultural heritage domain, i.e. data acquisition, content delivery, monitoring, and management. The innovative aspect of CIMAD is that it helps the development team in mastering the complexity of building, customizing and integrating site specific cultural heritage services, thus making the different implementation activities more productive and cost-effective.