Dear Arches'trians! Thomas Engel already pointed out some aspects of our intention with Arches earlier in this group (complemented by Tobias Kohr's request). I'll take Annabels request to give a little more insight and details on our plans here at the i3mainz [1]. As a member of a larger research group our task is to integrate archaeological and (palaeo-)environmental data in a web-based portal to assist ongoing research projects with a common pool of data. Now, as most of current archaeological research projects, we are not facing problems of big data etc. but rather "long"[2] or a bunch of "short/small" data, i.e. several valuable datasets from different research projects all concerned with Neolithic sites in West and South-West Germany. These datasets have a long and sometimes complicated history, some of them are rather small but fill a gap and thus are as meaningful as the "larger" ones. The focus of the research is not confined to the Neolithic in the long run. Having some experience in implementing WebGIS-Portals for special purposes, we quickly realized, that putting up 1dimensional data tables with attached geometry is not suitable for the integration of the archaeological "knowledge" hidden in the datasets. Alongside Arches we evaluated different frameworks for this wider and more integrative approach and finally favoured Arches, although it's, from what we understand, not really designed for hosting details of e.g. artefacts found at a specific site. Currently we try to tailor the Arches-Framework to modify resource types and concepts to allow for representing the peculiarities of our data. A long paper on the methods and results of the evaluation has been accepted for the CAA in Paris end of April. We are optimistic to also present the outcome of our Arches customization on that occasion. Will the Arches-Team be present in Paris?
Finally, I'd like to point out that we admire Arches and those who initiated it, for following a clear track on building up a community around the product. This is a sometimes ungrateful task and you might rather feel tempted want to put the resources in development. We'll try to support your much better approach as widely as possible. Please take this quite extensive post as part of the input. Best Kai @kaischi [1] http://www.i3mainz.fh-mainz.de/en (most of the site is only available in German, sorry...) [2] http://www.wired.com/opinion/2013/01/forget-big-data-think-long-data/ Am 15.02.2014 01:48, schrieb Annabel Lee Enriquez: > We've heard from many people lately and know that an encouraging number of > installations of Arches have already taken place! However, we're sure that > others, who we haven't heard from yet, are working with it, too. > > It would be very helpful for us, especially in making plans to support the > system going forward, to gain a better understanding of who is looking at > Arches and why. It may also allow us to make suggestions and refer you to > others that are doing similar things. > > Let us know. > > Thanks! > > - Annabel > -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more information, visit https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Arches Project" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
