  The paper discusses the experience of producing and distributing an iPhone
app for promotion of the Maltese Cultural Heritage on behalf of the Malta
Tourism Authority. Thanks to its position at the heart of the Mediterranean
Sea, Malta has been a crossroads of civilisations whose traces are still
visible today, leaving a particularly rich and varied cultural heritage, from
megalithic temples to baroque palaces and Caravaggio masterpieces. Conveying
all these different aspects within a single application, using textual, visual,
and audio means, has raised many different issues about the planning and
production of cultural content for mobile usage, together with usability
aspects regarding design and distribution of a mobile app. In this paper, we
outline all of these aspects, focusing on the design and planning strategies
for a long-term user commitment and how to evaluate results for cultural mobile
applications. We include experience of all the steps of developing a mobile
app, information that is of possible benefit to other app developers in the
cultural sector.
