Dear Friends and Colleagues,
The Getty Conservation Institute and World Monuments Fund are excited to tell you about a new, open source software application that we are developing for the heritage field. It is called Arches.
Arches is an open source geospatial information system that will be purpose-built to help heritage organizations inventory and manage all types of immovable cultural heritage. Arches is being developed to address the widespread need for low-cost electronic inventories that are easy to use and access. This collaborative effort combines state-of-the-art software development with the insights of heritage professionals from around the world.
You can find more information about Arches at http://archesproject.org.
Today, we are making available an early version of the Arches software code. Information technology specialists may download this version from https://bitbucket.org/arches/arches. We welcome you to assess it, and we hope to receive your feedback.
In June 2013, we will release a more advanced version of Arches that will be ready for heritage organizations to download, evaluate, customize, and deploy.
We encourage you to find out more about Arches, to let others know about it, and to consider more ways in which you can assist this effort.
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