[Arches] Re: Arches Community Forum launch scheduled for June 1st

2021-05-17 Thread Edmund Lee
Thanks for the shout-out Lindsay! It's been enormous fun to read all the 'Signing posts' here since August 2013 (over 5,400 views :-). Thank you all for sharing your 'views out the window' in the last 8 years. I'm looking forward to joining the new Discourse community for Arches. It's always

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2021-01-27 Thread Edmund Lee
ject for renewing our digital platform >>>>> for heritage places. I am currently evaluating and testing Arches v5 to >>>>> see >>>>> how well it would fit our project - so far so good. I have a background >>>>> in >>>>> in

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2021-01-27 Thread Edmund Lee
ve a background in >>>> information systems, web app projects, GIS, project management and >>>> software >>>> development - a jack of all trades, master of none. I live and work in >>>> Revelstoke, Canada. >>>> >>>> When I look

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2021-01-27 Thread Edmund Lee
gt;> how well it would fit our project - so far so good. I have a background in >>> information systems, web app projects, GIS, project management and software >>> development - a jack of all trades, master of none. I live and work in >>> Revelstoke, Canada. >>&g

[Arches] Re: Other Arches live installations

2018-12-07 Thread Edmund Lee
Hello all, It's been a while (2 years!) since this thread went quiet, so I thought the year end for those of us on the Gregorian calendar might be a good moment to put out a call for news of live Arches installations around the globe. Why not share a link to your Arches-based system here and

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2018-12-07 Thread Edmund Lee
the lines. Up in > London, you'll mainly find me gazing out the window onto the Thames and the > London skyline, either side of Cannon Street station, including two towers > which are part of the original station, as our office building sits atop > the current station and the railway

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2018-10-17 Thread Edmund Lee
used to stretch a chain to keep the U-Boats out of Teignmouth. > > Cheers all, > Pat > > On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 4:29:37 PM UTC+1, Edmund Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the >> Arches Discussion Forum rec

[Arches] Marking the day - 5 years of open sharing of Arches expertise

2018-08-22 Thread Edmund Lee
Hey everybody, We reach what feels like an important milestone today - 5 years since the Arches Project Google group was opened up as a public resource. If you dig into the message archive you'll see that the group first started up a year or more before that, following a project meeting hosted

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2018-05-14 Thread Edmund Lee
Great to hear from you Jens, and thanks for signing in. I'm sure the expertise you will find in this community can help you evaluate Arches, so do ask any questions that occur to you. What project takes you from Wessex to Berlin? All the best Ed On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 11:34:25 AM UTC+1,

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2018-05-14 Thread Edmund Lee
e affiliate chapter of Wikimedia Foundation in >>> Ukraine. Wikimedia Ukraine held Wiki Loves Monuments contests in Ukraine >>> since 2012. We created lists of Ukrainian heritage sites that contain more >>> that 75 000 entries and collected images of more than 27 000 dist

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2018-05-14 Thread Edmund Lee
t; > Michel > > > On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 5:29:37 PM UTC+2, Edmund Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the >> Arches Discussion Forum recently. >> >> This online group was initially set up fo

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2017-08-17 Thread Edmund Lee
ome sort of late 20C heritage. > > regards > David > > On Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:29:37 UTC+1, Edmund Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the >> Arches Discussion Forum recently. >> >> This online gro

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2017-03-31 Thread Edmund Lee
're supposed to post a quick bio. > > I a developer at Historic England (or, English Heritage as it was). I > predominantly write a casework system called UDS (SQL Server, C#, ASP.Net > Sites, Windows Services, Web Services, etc.) > > > > On Monday, 27 March 2017 16:19:22

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2017-03-27 Thread Edmund Lee
Hello all, I'll be at Day One of the Arches workshop in Liverpool, UK this week, so I hope to meet a few of you there in person, as well as online. All the best Ed On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 4:29:37 PM UTC+1, Edmund Lee wrote: > Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who h

[Arches] Re: Resource graph - Related resources for node

2017-01-12 Thread Edmund Lee
Fascinating request Vince, thanks for raising it - I'd be interested to see how Arches handles this use case as well. It's a common heritage issue - either competing or equally valid interpretations of a given artefact or site based on the (always) limited evidence that archaeology provides.

[Arches] Happy Thanksgiving!

2016-11-24 Thread Edmund Lee
A bit off-topic for this group, but in a troubled world open-source software is, in my opinion, part of the solution. So here's a message of thanks to all US-based contributors to the Arches project. Hope you enjoy the holiday. Ed -- -- To post, send email to archesproject@googlegroups.com.

Re: [Arches] Re: Arches M2M Interface for Metadata Harvesting?

2016-09-30 Thread Edmund Lee
t conforms to CIDOC-CRM, or LIDO, or non at all. > > Hope that makes sense! What's nice is that if one organization endeavors > to load a brand new ontology into version 4, they should be able to easily > translate their work into something that anyone can replicate. &

[Arches] Re: Arches M2M Interface for Metadata Harvesting?

2016-09-29 Thread Edmund Lee
Hello George, Thanks for the post. I am sure there are others here better placed to answer this from a technical standpoint, but to help get this question answered, could you say a bit more about what support for these standards would allow you and other potential Arches users to do? All good

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2016-08-03 Thread Edmund Lee
Sounds lovely Jim - thanks! We're now up to 317 members in this group. That's a lot of expertise... If anyone else who has joined recently would like to share a bit about themselves, their interest in Arches, (and what they can see out the window) that would be great. All the best Ed On

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2016-07-29 Thread Edmund Lee
Hello Jim, and welcome to the Arches community! As far as I can tell (though others may correct me - which would be great) you are the first to mention historic garden recording here. From an English perspective, of course, gardens are something of an obsession, and we have a special register

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2016-07-08 Thread Edmund Lee
issions to create a hierarchy of access that will allow for > users to be only allowed to edit records within a given geographical area. > > Happy coding everyone! > > Andrea > > On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 4:29:37 PM UTC+1, Edmund Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, ... and

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2016-06-13 Thread Edmund Lee
e to use Arches very soon for some of the field work > we are doing. > > Thanks > Basav > > On Thursday, 22 August 2013 20:59:37 UTC+5:30, Edmund Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the >> Arches Discussion Forum recen

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2016-06-13 Thread Edmund Lee
Hi Sara and welcome to the Group! It's great to be welcoming a new member almost four years to the day after the meeting, at the Getty in Los Angeles, that set up this group to support the Arches project. A happy time for all of us who were there to remember. The group here now has wide

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2016-06-07 Thread Edmund Lee
> Peter > > On Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:29:37 UTC+1, Edmund Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the >> Arches Discussion Forum recently. >> >> This online group was initially set up for the project team, and

[Arches] Re: Need testing of a python script that converts json to .arches

2016-04-04 Thread Edmund Lee
Hi Jae, I always find this site very helpful with python scripts :-) http://www.montypython.net/scriptsidx.php (Sorry - British sense of humour) Ed >> >> On Tuesday, March 29, 2016 at 9:41:54 AM UTC-6, Jae Hun Lee wrote: >>> >>> Hello, >>> >>> I've created a small python script that convert

[Arches] Re: Storing related project / contract information

2016-02-17 Thread Edmund Lee
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

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2016-02-11 Thread Edmund Lee
parts of downtown Calgary. Although hidden by the skyscrapers, there are a > couple of designated buildings somewhere in that view. > > Best regards, > Ali > > On Thursday, 22 August 2013 09:29:37 UTC-6, Edmund Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular

[Arches] Re: Storing related project / contract information

2016-02-11 Thread Edmund Lee
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

[Arches] Re: Best practices for place data not meant for publication

2015-12-11 Thread Edmund Lee
I would second this (+1) as a valuable additional feature for Arches. While personally I'm very much on the Open Information side, there are sites which need to be managed (and receorded in systems such as Arches) without making precise locational information availailable to all. Ed On

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2015-08-20 Thread Edmund Lee
see beautiful garden view full of trees and palms, and I once saw some pigeons there. I am glad I joined this active forum and I will be sending technical questions in a separate thread. All the best, Asmaa On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 5:29:37 PM UTC+2, Edmund Lee wrote: Hello all

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2015-08-20 Thread Edmund Lee
but could not success.. I dont know that any one are working on arches in india.. Regards On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 8:59:37 PM UTC+5:30, Edmund Lee wrote: Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the Arches Discussion Forum recently. This online group

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2015-05-11 Thread Edmund Lee
Hello Richard, And very belatedly a welcome to the Arches project group. It sounds like you have a fascinating project to wrok on. Do feel free to share a screenshot! I think the heritage site you mention - Oxford Castle http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Castle is the first one to

Re: [Arches] Creating Installation Wizard [GSoC '14 Project] Idea Discussion Thread!!

2015-02-05 Thread Edmund Lee
Thanks Chaitana, As a non-technical member of the group, I'd love to have a Windows installer for Archaes. I've just recently bought a Windows 8.1 laptop, so I'm hoping at some time to be able to install my own Arches database to experiment with. All good wishes Ed

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2015-01-07 Thread Edmund Lee
Hello Chaitanya, and welcome to the Arches project forum! It's great to hear such enthusiasm for the software that supports the Arches application - do encourage your friends to have a look at the Arches website. There are also many specialists in heritage on this group who can answer

[Arches] Re: CIPA 2015: Invitation to submit papers on inventories Arches workshop

2015-01-06 Thread Edmund Lee
Happy New Year all, It occurs to me that these conferences and presentations would also be an opportunity to gather some worked examples and use case studies on the application of Arches for use in future versions of the software documentation, particularly that aimed at end users. Any

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2014-12-01 Thread Edmund Lee
Hi Lucy, Welcome Lucy! that sounds like a facsinating project, and an amazing place to work. Do feel free to post more about your project as it develops - I'm sure we will all be envious. Shame about the view of the pyramids.. I was going to* insist* that you post a photo :-). But what you

[Arches] Re: Want to contribute in the organisation

2014-08-26 Thread Edmund Lee
Hello Prakhar, and welcome to the Arches project forum! Many thanks for sharing your experience with us, and for your enthusiasm for the work we are doing here. Other members of the forum will be able to suggest areas that you can assist with. I just wanted to say 'hi' and invite you to share

Re: [Arches] Arches documentation has a new home!

2014-08-05 Thread Edmund Lee
Hi Yiannis, Arches folks, I have three days personal development leave available this year which I'd be happy to use on reworking (or starting reworking) the User Guide, if that would help, and its not too late? I've no experience with Pandoc (but that would be the 'development' bit :-). Not

[Arches] Re: Signing in

2014-07-16 Thread Edmund Lee
-- and documenting buildings and sites in the lower Midwest. Daniel On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:29:01 AM UTC-4, Edmund Lee wrote: Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the Arches Discussion Forum recently. This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has