## 6 Discussion and Results  
During the development of the entire project, the IT application using an interactive digital map was initially tested in three counties, which was later extended to seven counties, involving the branches of the Ministry of Culture in the respective counties. In the first year of the project, the application was developed based on the specialists' team requirements. In the subsequent 9 months, the 14 specialists (archaeologists) entered descriptive and geospatial information for approximately 1000 archaeological sites into the database of the computer application. These archaeological sites were analyzed by the supervisor and approximately 750 were validated and are accessible to the general public. The information entered in the database came from the following sources:  
* administrative documents (historical-archaeological studies to substantiate the general urban plans of some counties, cities, municipalities);
* systematic or preventive research reports published in the Chronicle of Archaeological Research in Romania [20];
* original preventive archaeological research reports;
* scientific materials (archaeological directories, archaeological monographs, specialized studies published in specialized journals);
* the documentation related to the List of Historical Monuments [53] in the archaeological sites section;
* the documentation related to the National Archaeological Repertory [47]. The unitary means of presenting and organizing the information, its quality and accuracy, the implemented functionalities, and the user-friendly access to any information through the search criteria, have attracted the attention of numerous users, professionals and non-professionals, who have accessed the application website in the last 6 months. Figure 21: User graphical interface to input coordinates in Stereo70 format and map representation. The validated archeological site represented in purple color. In Constanta county, for which the branch of the Ministry of Culture introduced the largest number of sites into the system, a major benefit was a reduction in the time taken to respond to public requests regarding the presence or absence of archaeological heritage elements in certain terrain areas. The previously presented functionalities, and especially the friendly, intuitive means of working with and entering data in the platform, enabled other public institutions in the same category (branches in the territory of the Ministry of Culture in counties other than those initially involved in the project) to formulate requests to use this system. Once as much information as possible is entered into the system, considering the completely open means of access, the urban planning services in each city or county will be able to directly consult on the position of a piece of land in relation to an archaeological site and its protection zone. In this manner, prompt, accurate answers can be offered to the applicants, immediately from the information phase and the request for the urban planning certificate. At the same time, the public services in each city or county can promptly and efficiently fulfill their duties in the field of archaeological heritage protection, having at their disposal a platform with stored and thematically structured specialized information. The cadaster and real estate advertising offices can retrieve data and information stored in the system to create databases of the specialized cadaster of archaeological sites and historical monuments. A possible further development will be the interconnection of the ArchTerr system with the database of the National Agency for Cadastre and Real Estate Advertising (Imobile eTerra) [54]. Since the information is unrestricted, any general public user who is interested in finding out about certain aspects related to the archaeological heritage can do so publicly, free of charge, and without the need to obtain any credentials in advance.