Hi Ed, Many thanks for responding to my post.
I wanted to respond sooner but thought I should take some time to understand Arches and CIDOC CRM first. My assumption is that any additional data that we will want to store in the database must conform to some ontology (existing or developed specifically for this project). I must say for someone who has never thought about how knowledge is organized, the video tutorial on the CIDOC CRM is both very interesting and scary at the same time! And I must confess, I still do not quite understand how the CIDOC CRM is implemented in Arches, specifically how the mappings and desk instructions are encapsulated right into the database. But a self-describing data-set makes perfect sense. With respect to your question, our thought was that linking heritage resource data directly to the conservation projects that are related to those resources would be a logical extension of a heritage resources management system. We find that past project data is very useful for developing future projects (e.g. for determining the appropriate conservation approach, the budget, etc.). We currently use complicated directory structures to track projects, contracts, reports, photographs, etc. for each site. Each person uses their own method of organizing the data and we have many copies of reports and pictures spread across our file server. This makes finding information very difficult and cataloguing and migration to new systems almost impossible. We had started an in-house project to develop a system to manage our projects. In it we wanted to track project and contract data, including schedule and budget for current projects, but also import our past projects so that they can be indexed for searching. However, we thought that instead of starting from zero, it might make sense to build this system on top of Arches. I think the Activity, Actor and Information Resource elements/resources can already capture some information related to conservation projects. Sorry for the long message. I hope it provides a bit more background. Best regards, Ali From: archesproject@googlegroups.com<mailto:archesproject@googlegroups.com> [mailto:archesproject@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edmund Lee Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2016 10:15 AM To: Arches Project Subject: [Arches] Re: Storing related project / contract information Hi again Ali, That's an interesting extension to Arches. Perhaps you could say a bit more about the type of contract and project work you have in mind? Are you looking to Arches to provide active project management support (e.g. tracking tasks and schedules for time and cost) or as a more passive repository of associated documentation? Or both? Best wishes Ed On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 8:02:13 PM UTC, Ali wrote: Hi all, Our organization has been watching the development of Arches and we are very excited to try it out. To start, we are limiting the resources to a couple of sites that are managed by us directly. Our hope is that apart from building an inventory of our sites and the related information, we can extend Arches to manage project and contract data for each of these sites in one single system. However, we are not sure if that is at all technically feasible and how easy it would be to extend Arches through modules/plugins. That is why I am wondering if others have thought about this issue and if there are future plans to possibly integrate existing open-source project management systems with Arches. Best regards, Ali -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com<mailto:archesproject@googlegroups.com>. 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