Dear Liz Welcome to the Arches community, and thanks for letting us know about the work of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust, which sounds like important work in a part of the world that now has many urgent needs.
Others have recently expressed interest to the Arches team (although not on this forum) in deploying Arches for Nepal. I will write to you separately off forum to put you in touch with each other in case there might be synergies between your aims. If you haven't already done so, I would recommend that you and your colleagues take a look at HisoricPlacesLA, the Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory, [at http://historicplacesla.org] to get a better sense of whether Arches version 3.0 meets the requirements that you have in mind. HistoricPlacesLA is a customized implementation of Arches 3.0. We're also in the process of preparing a video showing the data entry side of Arches version 3.0, which is not publicly accessible through HistoricPlacesLA, and we'll be alerting the community when it is online. We're also working on a demo version of Arches to allow users to interact with its data creation and editing functionality. In terms of your interest in Arches' potential use for visitor interpretation and the potential use on smart phones, the user interface of Arches v3 is responsive, meaning that it automatically resizes based on the device that it's being viewed on, whether desktop, tablet, or smartphone. And the response from the public to HistoricPlacesLA as a source for obtaining information about the heritage of Los Angeles has been extremely positive. You may wish to experiment with interacting with HistoricPlacesLA on different digital devices. You've also mentioned that one potential use of Arches would be for an archive project. Could you elaborate on specifically what you have in mind? Just a bit of background, Arches has been designed with the focus on inventorying heritage places (which in terms of the Arches data structure includes Heritage Resources and Heritage Resource Groups (e.g., districts)), and allows for records of any any other Arches resource types to be related to them, which include Information Resources (which include things such as images and documents), Person/Organization, Activities (e.g., surveys, conservation interventions), and Historical Events. Actually any of these resource types can be related to each other, as you will able to see by searching the HistoricPlacesLA dataset. Once that you let me know the specifics of what you have in mind regarding the archive project, I can try to respond to your questions. Best regards, David Myers Arches Project Team ________________________________________ From: archesproject@googlegroups.com <archesproject@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Liz Newman <newman....@gmail.com> Sent: Thursday, May 28, 2015 2:38 AM To: archesproject@googlegroups.com; edmund....@english-heritage.org.uk Subject: [Arches] Signing in Hi, all- I am an architect and board member of the Kathmandu Valley Preservation Trust. www.kvptnepal.org. This is preliminary for us, but potential uses for Arches would be for an archive project whose headquarters would be in the Patan Royal Palace / Patan Museum, and, linked to that, as a way to help visitors find and understand the many small monuments and sites scattered around. We are a small organization dedicated since 1990 to conserving the built heritage of the Kathmandu Valley, but since the opening of the palace last year as an architectural museum, we have received signs of interest in/ funding for further visitor/ tourist interpretation. In that arena, we have been thinking the ability to use a smartphone to visit and learn about sites would be of interest. Wondering if there will be a good fit. We have made a point of seismic strengthening in our (roughly 50) past projects, so almost all of them survived the earthquake on the 25th without too much damage. Now we have a number of new projects we were not planning on, and a new perspective on mapping and linking them.... My view at the moment is of Portland, Maine. More relevant is my colleagues' view from the KV office is of the Patan Royal Palace Complex, where we opened the Architecture Museum last year, with some temples standing in the royal square and a few that collapsed in the earthquake. -- -- 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/d/optout. -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. 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