Hi Richard, Welcome to the Arches community.
Good question concerning the learning curve for web developers. A moderately experienced developer should have no problem working with Arches’ default architecture and front-end web application. Arches back-end is also based on modern, standard technologies. The one wrinkle on the backend: Arches uses a graph data model and the CIDOC CRM to define “schema” for cultural heritage resources. A traditional developer might need a bit of time to understand the graph model (FYI, its a very straightforward effort to understand Arches implementation). The CRM is probably the least familiar technology for a developer. The CRM is an ontology, and is used to describe the meaning of Arches resource data. You can think of the CRM as helping with defining the data definition for Arches data. For what its worth, we (Farallon Geographics) provide Arches development services, as well as technical training for developers who want to quickly master Arches. Hope this helps. Please feel free to contact me if you need more detailed information. Cheers, Dennis > On Jan 25, 2016, at 10:27 AM, Richard Wilding <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Dear All, > > I am project manager for a new 'gazetteer' which will catalogue the works by > a leading late 19th / early 20th century architect. This will consist of a > back-end database allowing our editors to enter a range of metadata > (location, date, client, building type, image etc.) for each work, and also a > front-end website which will allow the public to browse and search through > these same works. > > If I wish to appoint a developer who already has experience of building > database projects to catalogue cultural heritage, and I want to recommend > Arches as a suitable platform, how likely is it that they will be able to get > up-to-speed quickly with Arches to create a back-end and front-end website? > > Alternatively, how can I go about finding a specialist Arches developer? > > > Thanks and best wishes, > > Richard Wilding > > -- > -- 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 > <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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout > <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.
