## 7 Conclusions  
The computer system developed within the ArchTerr project (publicly available, free of charge, at www.archterr.ro) represents the outcome of the scientific research project and, in many ways, provides a benchmark in terms of applying the concept of protecting the archaeological heritage using modern Information Technology-based tools.  
The project was financed as a result of its selection in a competition among approx. 80 projects having the same subject area and dedicated to research and national cultural heritage protection.  
The ArchTerr project's software application achieved the integration and unification at the national level of information about the archaeological heritage of some territorial administrative units (counties), which was previously distributed among several entities (museums, universities, city halls, Ministry of Culture territorial branches, etc.). This led to both refined and accurate data, and a unitary approach to the archaeological national heritage. The digital storage of paper archives and the computerization of archeological data allowed a major optimization of the response time when providing information to citizens. The fact that the platform instantaneously integrates, and performs the conversion between, several geospatial systems (a GIS-based modern system and the official standardized system), allows any citizen to confirm the position of a land area, regardless of the system in which they acquire the geospatial data.  
Although integrated into the general trend of development of archaeological heritage management systems (refer to the achievements related to this topic in countries with a tradition of protecting cultural heritage, such as England, France, Italy, and Greece), the ArchTerr software platform excels in directly addressing a wider range of users for whom it has created opportunities for direct interaction. This functionality reduces waiting times at both the public institutional level and for private beneficiaries. Furthermore, the latter have the possibility of planning not only the timeframe of the investment, but also its financial development, depending on the location of the intervention area in relation to an archeological site or its protection area. The presented system is the first national platform in Romania to record archaeological heritage, having a unitary design and being accurately and constantly updated via the uploading of data into the system (by specialists who have the best knowledge of the cultural heritage of a county/administrative territorial unit and employees of the county directorates for culture).  
The created system can be further developed, outside the scope of this project, by adding a module that provides integration with systems managing natural environment protected areas, because it is mandatory that environmental protection issues are addressed together with those of protected archaeological heritage.  
Conceptualization, C.V.M. and M.I.; methodology, M.I.; software, C.V.M.; validation, M.I.; writing--original draft preparation, C.V.M. and M.I.; writing--review and editing, C.V.M. and M.I.; supervision, C.V.M. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript.  
This work was supported by a grant of the Romanian Ministry of Education and Research, CCCDI-UEFISCDI, project number PN-III-P2.2.1-PED-2019-5037 contract number PED 571/2020 within PNCDI III.  
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This research project was designed and developed by two teams forming a Research Excellence Cluster in \"Dunarea de Jos\" University Galati (Department of History) and \"Politehnica\" University of Bucharest (Department of Engineering in Foreign Languages, Faculty of Engineering in Foreign Languages).  
The authors declare no conflict of interest.