Building Resources for Integrated Cultural Knowledge Services (BRICKS) is an open-source software framework for the management of distributed digital assets.

[3] A final report published in September 2007 showed visitors to the web site peaked in October 2006.

The software is mainly written in the Java programming language, using an embedded version of the Apache Tomcat application Server.

A Java Server Pages (JSP) web-based GUI is provided for administrative tasks, including security, user management, and configuration of network settings.

The BRICKS Workspace is a JSP web application based on the Struts framework.

The BRICKS Desktop is an Eclipse-RCP application providing a more advanced access to the BNode services.

It features a fully configurable user application framework allowing advanced metadata editing, ontology browsing, extensive searching, and interactive content creation.

The Finds Identifier application was proposed to help members of the general public classify archaeological objects.

The project was led by Engineering Ingegneria Informatica SpA, an Italian company, while the scientific and technical lead was Fraunhofer IPSI from Germany.