30 Int. J. Computational Intelligence Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, 2016 Copyright © 2016 Inderscience Enterprises Ltd. On the implementation of a digital map for cultural heritage Spiridon Mousouris* and Georgios Styliaras Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies, University of Patras, Seferi 2, 30100, Agrinio, Greece Email: smousouris@upatras.gr Email: gstyl@upatras.gr *Corresponding author Abstract: Digital Cultural Heritage Map is a crowd-sourced web application that combines web-mapping, digital archives and multimedia. A back-end CMS allows manipulation of the user-generated content, making the system dynamic and easy to maintain. The goal of the application is to gather cultural data of a specific geographic area and relate them with multimedia, metadata and spatial data. This study presents the philosophy and the guidelines that influenced the interface design and the innovations of the application. We also describe the implementation strategy that can inspire the development of other applications that are device-independent and available to users on the move. Keywords: web-mapping; HTML5; culture heritage; responsive design; user interface Reference to this paper should be made as follows: Mousouris, S. and Styliaras, G. (2016) ‘On the implementation of a digital map for cultural heritage’, Int. J. Computational Intelligence Studies, Vol. 5, No. 1, pp.30–49. Biographical notes: Spiridon Mousouris received his degree in Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies from the University of Ioannina in 2009 and his Master’s in Cultural Informatics and Communication in 2011 from the University of the Aegean. He is currently a PhD candidate at the University of Patras. His research interests include cultural applications, web development, web mapping, and application interoperability and interdisciplinary. Georgios Styliaras is an Assistant Professor in Multimedia Systems at the Department of Cultural Heritage Management and New Technologies (University of Patras) since January 2009. He received his Diploma degree in Computer Engineering and Informatics in 1996 and his PhD degree in 2001 from the University of Patras. He worked for the Hellenic Ministry of Culture from 2002 until 2005. His duties were to design and manage the implementation of multimedia information systems for museums and archaeological sites. In 2006, he joined the Department of Plastic Arts and Art Sciences (University of Ioannina) as a Lecturer in Multimedia Applications. His research interests include multimedia applications and systems for culture, hypermedia systems and modelling cultural content. This paper is a revised and expanded version of a paper entitled ‘Implementing digital cultural heritage map’ presented at Information, Intelligence, Systems and Applications Conference (IISA 2014), Chania, Crete, Greece, 7–9 July 2014.