The user is subsequently able to perform a selective query on a specific area of the excavation and the option lists are automatically updated on the basis of the values chosen.
Once the year and the topographical area have been selected, the user can read the whole text or perform four specific types of search: structure, layer, artefact, and inscription.

As it has been developed the application also offers the possibility to link to and be queried by the on-line GIS. For it is possible to associate to the geographical data hyperlinks containing query strings of parameters to pass to the ASP pages. This meets the two main objectives of the project: to integrate textual data with their geographical context, and to initiate a text-based retrieval system for the Internet, after having set some data access restrictions to guarantee the safety of the archaeological site.

In order to meet these aims it was decided to implement an Internet system using the Microsoft Windows 2000 Server operating system. For the moment, the sample chosen on this web site to give proof of the whole search engine concerns querying the documents referring to the 1983 excavation season.