Hi Alex, Thanks for the kind feedback on Arches.
We've been working hard on Arches v3.0 and the Heritage Inventory Package (HIP), and your question provides a good opportunity to update the Arches community on our progress. One thing to note right away is that Arches v3 has been significantly re-engineered, and will not be backward-compatible with version 2. Perhaps the best way to think of Arches v3 is as a web development platform that provides all data management services needed to manage graphs, index data for search/retrieval, and manage controlled vocabularies. We now speak of building "Arches applications" that use the framework and present a graphical user interface that supports data management (creation, editing, deletion of heritage data), search, and reporting. So, with that bit of background, I can answer your question: Arches v3.0 (the web framework) is nearing completion. Remember that this means the server-side code needed to process resource graphs, index data for ElasticSearch, and create/manage thesauri/controlled vocabularies. The HIP (the application that implements graphs and UI for Heritage Resources, Heritage Groups, Activities, Historic Events, Actors, and Information Objects) is not nearly ready. This means that the UI presented in the Arches Roadmap is still under development. We are confident that both the Arches v3 framework and the HIP will be ready for deployment in January, 2015. We are advising everyone who can to put off their Arches implementation until January 2015 when version 3 and the HIP will be ready, For you, that may be too late. Of course, you can still use Arches v2, but it wouldn't make much sense to customize or enhance it given the upcoming release of v3. I hope this helps you make a more informed decision about implementing Arches. Cheers, Dennis On Thursday, November 13, 2014 4:32:38 AM UTC-8, Alex Bešir wrote: > > Greetings Arches Community! > > First of all, I would like to congratulate all the Arches developers for > their work! Arches looks like a really promising platform and I believe it > will be eventually adopted by many heritage professionals. > > I am Alex Besir, a student of Faculty of Computer and Information Science, > University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, and I will be developing a new web > register for slovenian immovable heritage using Arches for my thesis. > > I plan on finishing this project before January 2015, so I am a bit > uncertain about which version of Arches to go with. I understand the > version 2 is officially the stable one and it is probably the safest > choice, but looking at the roadmap, the upcoming version 3 looks really > amazing and I think it would be even better, if I could use it for my > thesis. > > So, my question for the developers is, how complete is the version 3 > (which is available on bitbucket)? Are there any major features, issues and > bugs which still have to be resolved, or the only remaining steps are > testing and documentation writing? If I start working with the version 3 > today, should I expect a lot of difficulties? > > Thank you for your replies in advance, > keep up the great work! > > Alex Besir > [email protected] <javascript:> > -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]. 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 [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
