Dear Daniel I've been meaning to follow up Mario Santana's post in reply to your question about experiences in using Arches in educational or training situations. I had a chance to chat with Mario recently and discussed that a few points could be clarified about his server setup using Amazon cloud hosting. Mario - Please chime in if I've gotten anything wrong, or if further details should be added. Mario is based at Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada. He first tried installing Arches on a university server. However, there would have been issues with accessing his instance of Arches via the web due to Carleton's web access/security policies. As a result, he ended up choosing a commercial cloud service (i.e., Amazon) for hosting Arches on a server. When Mario turned to Amazon hosting he was hoping to get an educational discount but this was not available in the end. Given his budget, the Amazon service was more expensive than he was willing to pay. Mario mentioned to me that he has since learned that other commercial hosting services are available at half to one-third the cost of Amazon .... for example www.digitalocean.com which was cited in an earlier post on the forum by Karl Fogel. Depending on the IT policies at your university, it might be possible for you to install and use Arches on an existing server without hosting costs. If you have IT support and would like to have them look at installing Arches, then I would recommend looking at required steps in the installation guide that's available at: http://archesproject.org/documentation/ The installation guide also provides guidance on configuring Arches for your particular requirements, such as defining the default map extents and modifying the controlled vocabularies to meet your particular context. I hope this provides a bit of clarification. Best regards, David
>>> On 5/12/2014 at 8:34 AM, in message >>> <cf966101.8e5f3%[email protected]>, Mario Santana Quintero >>> <[email protected]> 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]> Date: Wednesday 7 May 2014 09:29 To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> 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 -- -- 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.
