Portus

The Portus project is an AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council) funded project which analyses Roman Towns in the Middle and Lower Tiber Valley focussing on the site of Portus. The site covers the harbour environment around the Heaxgonal basin of the Port of Trajan.

ARK has been used for the first time in September 2007 to register practically everything about the seasons excavations of the site. Like other projects using ARK the Portus project used the modules: Context, Samples, Plans and Sections.

In addition the File module was created exclusively for the Portus project. It registers all files used in the project and moves the files to specific folders. If the file is a photo it will use the lightbox application to present the photo and other file types such as movies, DXF and PTM will also be presented through appropriate applications.

To see an example of the Portus ARK in action click here