Hi Daphne, welcome to the Arches project group! Thanks for sharing this information about your interests in Arches and in heritage documentation. Do feel free to use the other threads on this discussion group to ask questions, and contribute to finding answers for other members of this growing online community. You’ll find a mix of computer and programming specialists along with those who work in organisations that manage heritage inventories, such as me.
You’ll maybe have seen from the project website the articles by the project team that development of Arches sprang from concern for the fate of archaeological sites in Iraq following the 2003 invasion. http://archesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/Arches_GCINewsletter_Fall2013.pdf War and heritage inventories have a much longer history than that, however. In the U.K. where I work, the earliest consistent records of archaeological sites were made by the Ordnance Survey, which, as the name suggests, were maps made during the Napoleonic war with France in the early 19th century to plan movement of troops and heavy artillery in areas likely to be invaded. Many of the historic buildings in England were first systematically photographed when under threat from bombing during the Second World War. Both of these records eventually ended up forming the core of the datasets managed by English Heritage available via PastScape http://www.pastscape.org.uk/ I’m sorry to hear you haven’t got a view to report! Hope that improves, All good wishes Ed English Heritage From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Daphne Ippolito Sent: 09 March 2014 20:05 To: [email protected] Subject: [Arches] Re: Signing in Hello, everyone. I'm Daphne, and I'm currently a student at the University of Toronto in Canada. I started off as an archaeological science and computer science double major, but have since leaned more towards the computer science side. I was really excited to discover Arches on the GSoC site because it helps to solve a problem I've personally encountered. In my cartography class last year, I wanted to do a research project on the proximity of violence during the War in Afghanistan to the country's archaeological sites. I found the website of a phd student who had mapped many of the heritage sites in Afghanistan, but unfortunately he had only released this data as a jpg, and the image was too small-scale to be of use to me. Despite my best efforts, I couldn't get into contact with the guy to ask him for his data. This is a huge problem in archaeology. In the excavations I've been on, records were still in large part done by hand, and even when they are digitized, there isn't always a straightforward path available for researchers to make this data publicly accessible. Arches looks like it's taking a big step toward addressing this, and I hope to have some time in the next few days to start familiarizing myself with its implementation. Unfortunately right now I am working in a windowless computer lab on campus :( but I look forward to finally having some sunny days that aren't freezing later this week. On Wednesday, 13 March 2013 06:29:01 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 just recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met before. How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if we were meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to this thread and share with the group some or all of the following: * what is your interest in Arches? * where in the world are you working? and, just to make it a bit more fun, * what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your view? I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better! Ed -- -- To post, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>. To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected]<mailto:[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]<mailto:[email protected]>. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. This e-mail (and any attachments) is confidential and may contain personal views which are not the views of English Heritage unless specifically stated. If you have received it in error, please delete it from your system and notify the sender immediately. Do not use, copy or disclose the information in any way nor act in reliance on it. Any information sent to English Heritage may become publicly available. Portico: your gateway to information on sites in the National Heritage Collection; have a look and tell us what you think. http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/professional/archives-and-collections/portico/ -- -- 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.
