New services for the public in a technology-related approach: the AXMEDIS project inside a museum of musical instruments

Museums are recently landed to the use of the information technology with wide applications: from digitalisation of their contents to use of the audioguide. Now ‘multimedia museums market’ is urging better pricing and value for money for their new products and services. Key issues for a viable and sustainable business venture in the digital cross-media content include the containment of content sale prices and the accessibilities to the contents in order to allow better exploitations of the heritage of a museum. Currently, the museum sector has not fully exploit new possibilities from the Information Technologies for their public services and management aspects. Possible technology-enhanced solutions to containment of sale price challenge could be found by automating, accelerating and restructuring content managing, production of new content and delivering processes, providing solution for content protection. The AXMEDIS project (Automating Production of Cross Media Content for Multichannel Distribution) is supported by the European Commission to create an innovative technology framework for the automatic production and distribution of digital cross-media contents - providing solution for content protection - over a range of different media channels with protection, including PC (on the internet), PDA, kiosk, mobile phones and i-TV (interactive-TV). AXMEDIS aims to meet the above mentioned challenges of the museums and the market deman