[ Enter the Past ] Vienna - Austria, 8-12 April 2003
 
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D. I. Micle
Faculty of Letters and History, West University of Timisoara, Romania

 
The ARHEOTIM Archeology Portal
 

The Romanian archaeological patrimony is one of the richest ones in Europe, but it is not sufficiently popularised. The ARHEOTIM archaeology portal provides a way to integrate the Romanian archaeological values in the great European patrimony.
Following the footsteps of important archaeological portals, already acknowledged at an international level, ARHEOTIM wishes to fill an empty page on www Romanian space.
The structure of the portal is a didactic one, addressing primary to college students but also to all those interested in archaeology. ARHEOTIM includes approximately 2000 links grouped in 12 categories: Regions; Techniques/Methods; Themes; Epochs; Theory; Artefacts; Romanian archaeology; Personalized pages; Maps/Images; Portals/Directories; Archaeology for children; On-line magazines.
In order to be a genuine guide in archaeology, ARHEOTIM also includes a section referring to the Methodology of suffering and interrogation in www, a specialized Forum for discussions, an Electronic Magazine and an internal Search motor.
The most interesting chapter however, is the one referring to projects undertaken by History and Archaeology Study Centre (CSIATim), which has as a goal the familiarization, at a medium level, of the archaeological sites in western Romania.
Within this project 2 multimedia products are presented: e-Tibiscum and e-Praetorium.
Both web pages are complex projects that combine written text with sound, image and 3D modelling in an attempt to offer an image as clear and complete as those provided by the best archaeological sites concerned with Greco-Roman civilization, in western Romania.
Keywords: Internet, patrimony, archaeology, didactic, portal

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