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I'm happy to confirm that Phil Carlisle will be explaining ARCHES at the HER Forum summer meeting on 8 July. If there is further interest after that, we may be able to get someone from Getty to a subsequent meeting. Chris Webster Somerset Historic Environment Record Somerset Heritage Centre Brunel Way Taunton TA2 6SF 01823 347434 Online HER at www.somerset.gov.uk/her The Somerset HER is managed for Somerset County Council by the South West Heritage Trust. South West Heritage Trust is a charity and a company limited by guarantee registered in England. Registered office: Somerset Heritage Centre, Brunel Way, Norton Fitzwarren, Taunton, Somerset TA2 6SF Company number: 09053532 Charity Number: 1158791 VAT Registration Number: 197221592 -----Original Message----- From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Carlisle, Philip Sent: 13 March 2015 09:58 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Anyone using ARCHES - Getty/WMF Project Hi Jon, My understanding is that Arches 3.0 is the underlying platform which includes a CIDOC-CRM compliant graph database and a SKOS-compliant Reference Data Manager. Currently the Arches platform is being used for a variety of uses with purpose-built packages, recording modules if you will, plugged into core Arches. If memory serves the first commercial user of Arches is Caltrans - the California Department of Transportation who are using it internally to manage the road infrastructure for the whole of California. The latest implementation which is more relevant to Cultural Heritage is HistoricPlacesLA. This is built on Arches 3.0 with a Heritage Inventory Package (HIP) 1.0 which handles the recording forms. HistoricPlacesLA is the public facing front end for SurveyLA which is tasked with identifying Historic Resources and Districts within the City of Los Angeles, this involves visiting 800,000 parcels of land and evaluating whether the buildings and sites are worth recording. As you can imagine with such a vast number of sites this project is ongoing. HistoricPlacesLA currently holds 18,608 Historic Resources (mainly buildings) and 159 Historic Districts (similar to our conservation areas) see http://www.historicplacesla.org/ Any UK implementation would obviously need to modify the HIP to meet UK needs as it is currently focused on allowing sites to be recorded and evaluated according to US standards. Phil Phil Carlisle Data Standards Supervisor Data Standards Unit, Designations Department English Heritage The Engine House Fire Fly Avenue Swindon SN2 2EH Tel: +44 (0)1793 414824 http://thesaurus.english-heritage.org.uk/ http://www.heritagedata.org/blog/ -----Original Message----- From: Issues related to Historic Environment Records [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Jon Robinson Sent: 13 March 2015 08:58 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Anyone using ARCHES - Getty/WMF Project Hi all Just wondered if anyone in the UK is using Arches yet (archesproject.org), is testing it, has evaluated it or has even considered it for their HER? That is the web based application, not the "Archaeological Resources in Cultural Heritage a European Standard" as detailed on the ADS website. The about to be available v3.0 looks very interesting and looks as if it would be easier to implement than previous versions as long as we are able to accommodate the technology required. We are currently in a position where we need to decide to spend money on a proprietry solution, redevelop our in-house existing system (possibly using SQL Server/K2/Sharepoint/QGIS/Geoserver) or look at other options, including open source such as Arches. They obviously all have cost implications, some more up front than others! Any information/contacts would be useful. Best regards, Jon Jonathan Robinson Applications Support and Development Engineer ICT Service | Resources | Cumbria County Council t: Kendal 01539713412 | Carlisle 01228223301 f: 01228226596 m: 07786250331 www.cumbria.gov.uk English Heritage is changing into two organisations. From Spring 2015, we shall become Historic England, a government service championing England's heritage and giving expert, constructive advice, and the English Heritage Trust, a charity caring for the National Heritage Collection of more than 400 historic properties and their collections. If you'd like to know more about these developments, please visit: www.english-heritage.org.uk/about This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of English Heritage unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it. Any information sent to English Heritage may become publicly available.