Content management system incorporated in a virtual museum hosting

Within cultural heritage (CH), industrial heritage (IH) has a series of intrinsic characteristics, which mean that its study includes the use of new approaches to the analysis of heritage in order to understand and form a record, such as the technical–technological approach. The results of this research generate a series of data, which should be managed and stored correctly, with the aim of providing simple and comprehensive access to results. The research which has been carried out and presented in this paper brings together historical, archaeological and technological results, generating a multimedia database containing information of different types, for example a detailed historical record, as well as graphical descriptions with virtual recreations of industrial heritage, or Geographical Information Systems (GIS) and technical analysis. Once this information has been developed and standardized, the results can be included in the platform of a virtual museum (VM) devoted to industrial heritage, using a Content Management System (CMS). As an example, the flour-milling windmills of Andalusia (Spain) have been chosen, given their importance in the economic, social and cultural development of the areas in which they were located.