ARENA

ARENA (Archaeological Records of Europe Network Access Project) was a three year project supported by the European Union through the Culture 2000 programme. It began in late 2000 and was completed in November 2004. The object of the project was to promote preservation and access to digital data in European archaeology and to investigate and demonstrate the possibility of creating a European information infrastructure for archaeology. Three years of work has covered many areas of interest for the cultural heritage management community and archaeology as a discipline. The ARENA portal enabled an interoperable cross-search of the archaeological data for six European partners, and was the predecessor to the ARIADNE portal. The project is reported in Issue 18 of Internet Archaeology