Cultural heritage and information systems, an investigation into a dedicated hypertext

This paper describes an experiment concerning a ‘historical heritage-conscious’ data recording system. The experiment was part of a wider research, which was conducted into the archaeological site of Piazza Armerina, Sicily, and comprised the surveying, recording and classification of various kinds of information. Notably, the main aims of the research into the data recording system were: a) devising an information system capable of easily recording and organising survey data such as text, drawings, images and animations, for the use of researchers and technicians; b) promoting a multidisciplinary dialogue among different disciplines, thus obtaining some integration among different kinds of documents and projects; c) verifying the effectiveness of a hyper-textual system as regards procedures for storing survey data; d) supporting researchers and technicians when investigating an archaeological site.