Application of New Digital Technologies in Archaeological Heritage Management in Hungary

Our aim here is to provide a short overview of the efforts of the Archaeolingua Foundation and the Central European University in order to present archaeology to the wider public. First of all, there have been events jointly organized by ALF and CEU: first, the conference and exhibition entitled New Digital Technologies and Hungarian Innovations in Heritage Management in Budapest, February 2015. Four international keynote speakers introduced the latest technologies and recent developments, and the exhibition was a great meeting point for experts and those who were interested in the topic. Various techniques and tools were exhibited here, including multimedia applications, which will be also illustrated in our paper.
Secondly, through the cooperation of Archaeolingua and CEU a Masters course in archaeological heritage started in November. It continues the work of the above mentioned conference in New Digital Technologies. The lecturers are internationally recognized European experts in the field who introduce archaeological and heritage preservation applications of digital technologies according to multifaceted topics. Several Hungarian archaeologists have contributed to both events by presenting their own case studies.
Futhermore, regarding education, a new program was launched at CEU in 2014: the Cultural Heritage Studies program which is an interdisciplinary two-year MA program intended to educate individuals who wish to become heritage experts and practitioners, offering a variety of theoretical and methodological approaches.
As far as publications are concerned, Archeolingua is committed to the dissemination of the domestic results in digital heritage in the form of printed and online applications. Among the latest evidence for this is the ACEAH (Archaeolingua Central European Archaeological Heritage) series jointly published with the Archaeopress Publishers.
Moreover, we would like to emphasize the online magazine called Hungarian Archaeology, which is the only such online journal in this field in Hungary. It reaches a wide audience through the internet and provides recent information and news contributed by experts in archaeology and heritage.

Elizabeth Jerem / József Laszlovszky (Hungary)