Acosta Consult is a research consulting firm based in Frankfurt/Main, Germany with a focus on consulting services in the field of multimedia knowledge management, automatic content analysis, semantic and social web technologies and digitisation. Acosta Consult's scientifical and technical expertise is complemented by project and risk management, financial controlling and administrative support as well as activities that support the dissemination and exploitation of project results. The company's consulting teams support research and development projects as well as cultural heritage organisations and commercial content owners by making knowledge within and around their multimedia collections available to end users. By providing customised consulting services Acosta Consult helps its clients to define their role in the landscape of a service-oriented and knowledge-based information society.