ABSTRACT
Using the unique properties of the internet, the GEOMAT can articulate vast amounts of archival documents and images in time and space and make them accessible easily and quickly. The application of a bit of imagination to examples such as these permitted us to create sets of principles helpful in guiding GEOMAT formulation in a multitude of contexts. The core of the GEOMAT web architecture is a matrix juxtaposing two web pages locating the central landmark event in time and space: one a vertical timeline showing the dates of the event being analyzed, the second an index map of places/sites significant to the event. In these two core components are set link anchors of text or other symbols that access data and documents articulated to key times and places. GEOMATs may be used by individual researchers for analysis, synthesis, and presentation.
