Thanks very much, Mario.  I appreciate the advice.  I will plan on taking 
some time to get familiar with the system before asking students to use it. 
 It sounds like there's a bit of a learning curve.

On Monday, May 12, 2014 11:36:08 AM UTC-4, Mario Santana wrote:
>
> Dear Daniel
> I tested Arches for an undergraduate course on historic site recording, it 
> was a positive experience to introduce students into heritage inventories 
> and characterising heritage sites. I had help in setting it up on Amazon, 
> but I would not recommend this system. You would need to invest some 
> quality time in setting up an affordable environment for the application, I 
> would suggest to wait for the next real ease of Arches before you start. 
>  Also you would need to customise Arches to meet the concept model of how 
> heritage places are characterised in your region, as the application uses 
> an international standard that might not meet US models.
> Very important is to have somebody at your end that could manage the 
> workflow to set up the system on a server, if you have more questions, I 
> will be glad to help, regards
>
> Mario
>
>
>
> From: Daniel Vivian <[email protected] <javascript:>>
> Date: Wednesday 7 May 2014 09:29
> To: "[email protected] <javascript:>" 
> <[email protected]<javascript:>
> >
> Subject: [Arches] Introducing Students to Arches
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is anyone using Arches for teaching historic preservation?  I'm interested 
> in integrating Arches into my graduate classes, and I'm wondering if anyone 
> has experience in doing this.  Any guidance you can provide about the 
> learning curve for students would be much appreciated.  Also, how much 
> familiarity with the software was needed before students began working 
> independently on documentation projects?  
>
> Best,
>
> Daniel Vivian
> Assistant Professor
> University of Louisville
> Louisville, Kentucky 
> USA
>
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