Archaeology in the GIS portal of the National Heritage Board of Poland
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 04/07/2016

National Heritage Board of Poland was responsible for implementation of the INSPIRE directive in the field of cultural heritage (Protected Sites). The implementation was not only about digitising almost 80 000 listed monuments (including over 7700 archaeological sites), but also about a change of approach to data by adopting the yes/no mode instead of “about” and “probably”. After having built the data model, created thesauri and digitised paper documentation we felt that the visual result compliant with the INSPIRE specification would be highly unsatisfactory with regard to the data and the amount of work. Improved presentation available on our map portal (www.mapy.zabytek.gov.pl) was created in cooperation with Warsaw University of Technology. 
The paper will discuss the scope of the visible data, reasons behind the visual classification, the pros and cons, current possibilities of the use of the data and prospective development of the portal.