CULTURAL HERITAGE FORUM DESIGN

This paper is concerned with the development of the Irish Cultural Heritage Forum – explorer. This forum was developed by The Dublin Institute of Technology and The Discovery Programme and gives online access to a database of Irish archaeology held by the Discovery Programme. This includes the complete National Monuments Record (NMR). The NMR is a list of categorised and detailed monument data for Ireland and Northern Ireland showing, for example, a monument’s geographical position. Importantly the forum provides access to a large set of ‘lessons’ explaining and putting into context these monuments and artifacts. These lessons are primarily short texts which explain some aspect of Irish archaeology.