An actual cultural-heritage-related problem is how to effectively manage the global distribution of digitized
cultural and scientific information, taking into account that such a global distribution is only doable through
the Internet. Hence, adequately designing software applications realizing brokerage functionality in the
global space, particularly concerning digitized cultural/scientific information, is to be considered as an
essential cultural-heritage-related task. However, due to its great complexity, the usage of the existing
popular modelling instrumentarium seems insufficiently useful; this is mainly because the realization of a
satisfactory cultural-heritage brokering requires a deep understanding and consideration of the original
business reality. Inspired by this challenge, we have aimed at exploring relevant strengths of the SDBC
approach which is currently being developed. SDBC’s being capable of properly aligning business process
modelling and software specification, allowing for re-use and being consistent with the latest software
design standards, are among the facts in support of the claim that SDBC could bring value concerning the
design of cultural-heritage-related brokerage applications. Hence, in this paper we motivate and illustrate
the usefulness of SDBC for the cultural-heritage sector
