An information grid contents management platform for cultural heritage promotion

In this paper the authors address some methodological and technical issues on managing collections of digital documents published on the web by many different and autonomous stakeholders. To cope with this kind of problems the notions of document, of cooperative knowledge community, a set of cooperative content management system nodes glued together by a web semantic oriented middleware, and content knowledge authority are introduced. Within the community, each content provider will publish a set of documents and data model interpreters to collect, organize and publish documents through internet. The architecture of the distributed and cooperative content management system developed and deployed, called Octapy3), and its usage to organize cultural heritage multimedia documents collections are described. The test-bed prototype connects about 100 museums spread on the territory of Campania, Puglia (Italy) and Albany.