Dear Peter It's great to have you join the Arches forum and to know of your years of experience working with heritage inventories both in Massachusetts and at the international scale. And thanks for sharing the Massachusetts online inventory. Regarding your comment about the aim of data interoperability, if you haven't seen it you might wish to take a look at the "Standards and Interoperability" page of the Arches project website at: http://archesproject.org/standards/ In that connection, you might also find of interest this recent post on the forum about the current work going on by CIDOC as well as CIPA to finalize the International Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/archesproject/international$20core$20data$20standard/archesproject/KMU7AOWxDGo/K4U7dUPmo1IJ This is essentially an effort to combine and update the 2 separate 1990s standards, Core Data Index to Historic Buildings and Monuments of the Architectural Heritage and Core Data Standard for Archaeological Sites and Monuments. These standards were created, in part, to facilitate data sharing across political boundaries and to serve as a reference for heritage organizations, which, as they create inventories, often grapple with identifying the optimal set of inventory data to meet the practical requirements of heritage stewardship. The Arches Project used a working draft of the International Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage (which you will see referred to as the CDS) as the basis for identifying data fields for version 1.0 of Arches. Best regards, David Myers Arches Project Team
>>> On 3/29/2014 at 11:39 AM, in message >>> <[email protected]>, Peter STOTT >>> <[email protected]> wrote: Hello, My name is Peter Stott. I have been working with heritage inventories for the better part of three decades, both in the US and at the World Heritage Centre (UNESCO). Watching heritage inventories expand (and sometimes being part of that expansion) has been exciting, especially in the last two decades, as more organizations make their materials available online. In Massachusetts, we are just now completing the last few weeks of a six-year project to put the statewide historic resource inventory on line (http://mhc-macris.net/). Nonetheless, we as discipline don't seem much closer to making these systems compatible. I hope that Arches (as well as the foundation work of the Council of Europe, the Getty, and other organizations) will allow heritage organizations to move closer toward that holy grail "interoperability"! My programming skills are minimal, and I am sure in other posts, I will be asking for help as I move through the installation Arches (and Python, Java et al.)! >From my window, I see the iconic stacks of the South Boston Power Station, >once the Edison Electric Illuminating Company's landmark 1902 generating >station. A cross-platform search of hundreds of heritage databases for the >heritage of electric power generation (or other themes) would be an exciting >accomplishment! Looking forward to learning more Peter Stott -- -- 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. -- -- 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.
