Hi Lucy, I've been meaning to post here about the installation I "finished" recently, so this is the perfect thread to do so. It hasn't been officially released yet (i.e. no press release and still some small issues) but it is more or less done, and would certainly be useful for you to check out. The official announcement will be made before too long, but members of this forum can certainly have a look. I'll give a little background info:
I used Arches v3 to create the Cane River Heritage Inventory & Map for the Cane River National Heritage Area in Natchitoches, Louisiana (USA). This is a very historic part of Louisiana--Natchitoches is the oldest city in the Louisiana Purchase, and the surrounding area is home to many historic plantations and a thriving Creole community. There is also some US Civil War history. Not much archaeological stuff though, as you are looking for. The main impetus for the project was an effort to disseminate spatial data that had been collected for the heritage area in the past, as well as create a framework for future data collection. Also, they have an large archive of MP3 recordings that they wanted to have in the database. As many people are aware, having a bunch of shapefiles or an ESRI file geodatabase on a hard-drive somewhere only gets you so far when you need to make data available to the public (or simply use it). Arches serves very well as a platform that is not only publicly accessible, but also expandable. Another motivation that I personally had was to use the map interface to serve a bunch of georeferenced historic maps. In the US there are old fire insurance maps (by the Sanborn company) and I was able to get permission to add these maps to the interface, as well as a gorgeous series of maps captured from the Confederate army. All that to say that Arches worked well on multiple levels for what this project hoped to accomplish. I made some pretty substantial customizations to the basic arches-hip package, some of the main ones being the "show help" configuration, the addition of the historic maps panel, some extra basemaps that I made, and the ability to add an alternate symbology for a basemap or historic map. There's a lot to find if you poke around for a little while. I also made some modifications to the resource graphs and redid the authority documents, and (unfortunately) kind of steamrolled the responsive design that was originally built into the HIP app--so no guarantees on how it will look on your phone. Here is the website: crhim.canerivernha.org. Feel free to e-mail me personally with any questions or problems. Be patient when loading some of the historic maps, they may take a minute to cache. If you want to check out or use the package code itself, I've put it on github here: https://github.com/mradamcox/crip (also linked at the bottom of the home page). I also have all sorts of guides and steps that I recorded while setting up the whole thing (from image processing to hosting on Amazon Web Services) so I plan to make that stuff available pretty soon. Again, any questions, feel free to write. Adam On Sunday, May 31, 2015 at 4:20:20 AM UTC-5, Lucinda Fletcher-Jones wrote: > > Hi, > > I know of Mega Jordan which is an old Arches implementation and, of > course, I know of Historic Places LA (which looks great) but are there any > other live Arches installations that can be publicly viewed? We are > particularly interested in inventories of ancient > historical/archaeologicalsites. Also which other cultural heritage groups > are definitely deploying Arches Version 3? We would like this information > for a talk Dr. Weeks is giving so would be a good plug for Arches! > > Thank you very much, > > Lucy > Theban Mapping Project > -- -- 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.
