Content Management for Mobile Multimedia Art Guides

This paper discusses issues about content management in mobile multimedia art guides elaborating on experiences made in three exhibitions held at Ca’ Foscari University since Spring 2009. A family of mobile art guides on Apple iPod touch devices have been designed, featuring rich multimedia content and simple interaction styles. The guides are based on the Webkit run-time system wrapped by an iPhoneOS application interfacing an SQLite database for dynamic HTML generation and a gesture control system. A desktop application allows a content designer to configure, populate and maintain a database of multimedia material and to organize and select data components for the mobile guide application.