Hi Ali Great to have you join the forum, and to hear about your interest in the potential use of Arches by Alberta Culture! I thought I would add to what Adam and Ed have said in response to your query about being able to record and manage information on conservation projects, and associated documents, relating to heritage resources. As you’ve probably gathered, the default Arches resource type that is intended to be used to record any type of management activity (writ large as MIDAS defines them, including conservation projects) is the Activity resource. And Ed is correct that MIDAS was an influence in conceiving this Arches resource type. The nodes (which you can think if as fields) in the Activity resource graph have been geared toward the common information requirements of most heritage organizations. It has always been our assumption that different organizations deploying Arches, whose requirements vary widely, could then build upon those nodes to meet their particular needs.
And as I think you’ve gathered, the Arches Information Resource graph is intended to record documents, images, and other types of information carriers (such as the contracts, reports, photos, etc.), and can include digital files. We’ve referred to the Dublin Core metadata standard to design that graph, and it may also be extended to meet an organization’s particular needs. Arches then allows for the creation of relationships between records of any of the 6 default Arches resource types, including the two I’ve mentioned above as well as Heritage Resources, Heritage Resource Groups, Actors, and Historical Events. The following is an example of a report of an Activity resource in the HistoricPlacesLA implementation of Arches http://historicplacesla.org/reports/92d450c1-14e7-436e-b5d9-e44b62c75f97 It is the record for a field survey activity. You will see that the record has data included for only certain fields: activity name; related resources, including related Heritage Resources (which are linked to the records of each resource recorded through the survey); related Information Resources (you will see a link to the survey report; you could relate as many documents to this activity as you wish). The report will give you an idea of the other types of information that can be recorded for Activity Resources in the default Arches graph, without modification. Best regards, David From: archesproject@googlegroups.com [mailto:archesproject@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Edmund Lee Sent: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 5:57 AM To: Arches Project <archesproject@googlegroups.com> Subject: [Arches] Re: Storing related project / contract information Hi Ali, In case it helps your thinking, the MIDAS Heritage data standard developed for United Kingdom datasets covered Heritage Asset Management Activities. It's available to download at http://www.historicengland.org.uk/images-books/publications/midas-heritage/ .You'll find the relevant bit on (pages 45-47), but you might need to skim through the Introduction to see how this fits in. MIDAS defines these activities very broadly as "Activities undertaken to prevent damage to, or promote the survival of, Heritage Assets." I hope that proves useful - I know that MIDAS was one of the influences on Arches ontology development. CIDOC-CRM = 'interesting + scary'. I agree! Ed On Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 9:43:23 PM UTC, Adam Cox wrote: Hi Ali, this is certainly possible in some form, and it sounds similar to something that I'll be working to create for the Armed Forces Retirement Home, the current project I'm working on. We plan to add a sort of "Management Activity" resource type, based on their current database of management records. Those in turn will be related to any resources that are affected by a given activity. This concept is in the works for us, but I will let you know when the new resource types have been fully set up. If you have a specific "report" format or activity log, a new resource graph could be built to faithfully represent all of the information you usually collect, and all of your existing data could be loaded in to populate the database. Adam On Wednesday, February 10, 2016 at 2:02:13 PM UTC-6, 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>. To unsubscribe, send email to archesproject+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com<mailto: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<mailto: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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