Hi everyone, I have spent a couple of days exploring our brand new Arches 3 installation which we will be using for an inventory of Egyptian archaeological sites and I have some very basic questions to ask, and would be very grateful for any advice:
1. Resource manager: this allows me to input a 'historic resource', 'historic district', etc. I was expecting to see the more generic term 'Cultural Resource' and preferably be able to select 'Archaeological Resource'. Are these the default input forms or are there others? Are the input forms for 'historic resource' the same as for 'archaeological resource' in Arches 3? 2. Inputting point coordinates: We will be inputting our data from scratch (our data is presently in MS Excel) and we have point coordinates for each archaeological site and I was rather hoping that we would be able to input the point coordinates into the location section of the input form but it seems that we can either find the point on the map, which is very time consuming and inaccurate (in fact I do not see any coordinates at the bottom of the map to aid in locating the position, as previous versions of Arches had, so we would not know where to place the point) or load a gmx, kml or geojson file. I have looked into gmx files and found some open source software that will create such a file. Do we need to create a separate file for each resource? As we only have latitude and longitude, no elevation, which format is the most suitable for our use? How have other users dealt with this problem? 3. Historic District: Perhaps the archaeological resource input forms are different but we would like to use the group feature to input a very extensive site such as the Pyramids of Giza. For instance to input Giza as an 'archaeological zone' and relate each separate pyramid, temple and other structure to it to show it clearly as a group. When I look at 'Historic District' I don't see an obvious way of grouping these resources. Do we simply use the 'related resources' section to relate each separate site to the 'zone'? How have other users handled this? 4. Historic resource Type and Classification type: again perhaps this is a function of having the wrong input forms but we anticipated inputting an archaeological resource type (eg. temple, fortification, cemetery etc) associated with each cultural period (in our case, 'Old Kingdom', 'Roman' etc) so I do not know why there there seems to be an overall historic type and a classification type. As most of our sites are multi use over several centuries, we cannot describe them with one resource type. How have others dealt with this? I'm sorry to ask such basic questions but any help would be gratefully received! Lucy -- -- 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.
