Hello Richard, I just wanted to interject here with some information that you might find useful in regards to how Arches relates resources to each other. In your case, the architect in question would be represented as an Actor or Person/Organization resource, and his or her works would be represented as Heritage Resources. So, the Heritage Resources could be related to the Person/Organization resource and those relationships could be defined as "designed by/designed".
In the HistoricPlacesLA implementation, if you search for a particular Architect in the Search box, you will generally return that Architect's name. For example, a search for the architect "Paul R. Williams (Person/Organization Name)" will return a link to his record. Before selecting his record from the list of results, if you click under the Related Resources link under his name, a graph of all of the other resources related to him will appear. By hovering over the graph and loading more relations, you can find all of his works housed in the system. Alternatively, if you visit his actual record (http://historicplacesla.org/reports/d97df882-09c5-4512-80ec-98fea4ace226) and scroll down to the Related Resources section at the bottom, you will see all of the Resources related to him listed. The relationships are bidirectional and can also be approached from the heritage resource to the person resource or any other resource, such as information resources (images and documents, which could include design drawings), historical event resources, or activity resources (which could include records of interventions to buildings or structures described as discrete activities). Coming soon, a demo will be available with data that highlights more complex and varied relationships between people, events, and architectural works. For example, the architect Frank Lloyd Wright can be related to his son Lloyd Wright as well as his grandson Eric Lloyd Wright in addition to his collaborators and clients and actual architectural works. Hope this helps. Best, Annabel Annabel Lee Enriquez | Data Specialist | The Getty Conservation Institute | [email protected] | +1 310 440 6744 On Monday, January 25, 2016 at 1:27:53 PM UTC-8, Richard Wilding wrote: > > Thanks Adam, > > This is another interesting example. > > I love the location navigation that seems to be a very strong feature of > Arches. This would be a major asset for the project I’m working on. > > However, there are a number of other features we would need, and metadata > cross-linking is very important for us. > It would be a major flaw for a user to have to do a new search each time > they wanted to see related works by building type, date, client etc. rather > than just clicking on metadata entries to trigger a new targeted search. > > Another feature which may not be included in the Arches platform is the > ability to add links on object records to entries in a bibliography, so > that when a work is mentioned in a publication of journal, a link can be > added to a separate bibliography entry. > > Best wishes, > Richard > > > On 25 Jan 2016, at 21:15, Adam Cox <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Richard, for some more background on those installations Dennis > mentioned (and an additional link) here is a thread from elsewhere on the > forum which you may find to be useful if you haven't already come across > it: > https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/archesproject/implementations/archesproject/KS05bTBGptA/cLuPiQCKBAAJ > > I'm a developer and did the Cane River project mentioned above. You may > be interested to see the project I'm working on now, which is currently in > progress: afrh.adamcfcox.com. Based on direction from the folks I'm > working with, I made significant changes to the resource types to better > fit their current database and management methods. If you'd like to login > and see the data collection and database schema side of things, just let me > know and I'll give you the password. > > In answer to your second question about clicking on "date: 1905", no, the > basic Arches app isn't set up to do that, though I've thought it would be a > nice thing to add at some point. > > Take care, > Adam > > > On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 2:42 PM, [email protected] < > [email protected]> wrote: > >> Richard, >> >> Geolocation is one way Arches supports both data entry and search. In >> addition, you can search for cultural heritage resources by building type, >> place name, etc. Arches also includes a temporal search capability (e.g.: >> use the time-based search to find buildings built before 1905). >> >> As for your question regarding metadata terms, Arches implements >> controlled vocabularies (thesauri, really) that you can use for consistent >> data entry and concept-based searches. >> >> -Dennis >> >> >> Dennis Wuthrich >> CEO Farallon Geographics | www.fargeo.com >> 601 Montgomery St, Suite 1095 | San Francisco, CA 94111 >> T 415 227 1140 | Cell 415 317 2771 >> >> On Jan 25, 2016, at 12:30 PM, Richard Wilding <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Thank you Dennis, >> >> These are very interesting examples. >> >> Would it be fair to say that Arches uses maps, or geolocation, as its >> primary form of navigation? >> Or is this just the way these three examples have been structured? >> >> I do find the location based navigation very nice to use, but it is >> equally important for us for users to be able to browse by building type, >> date or place name. >> >> One final question for the time being (I’m sure we’ll cover these >> questions and others tomorrow) - can the various metadata terms shown for >> each object record be links, so that for instance clicking on 'date: 1905' >> would take the viewer to all works built that year? >> >> Best wishes, >> Richard >> >> >> On 25 Jan 2016, at 20:07, [email protected] wrote: >> >> Richard: >> >> Check out the following sites: >> >> HistoricPlacesLA, the Los Angeles Historic Resources Inventory: >> http://historicplacesla.org/ >> The Philippine Heritage Map: http://www.philippineheritagemap.org/ >> The Cane River Heritage Inventory and Map: http://crhim.canerivernha.org/ >> >> Cheers, >> >> Dennis >> >> >> On Jan 25, 2016, at 11:30 AM, Richard Wilding <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >> Thank you Dennis, >> >> Do you have any good examples of websites powered by Arches that >> catalogue works of architecture or other cultural heritage? >> >> Best wishes, >> Richard >> >> >> On 25 Jan 2016, at 18:45, [email protected] wrote: >> >> 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]. 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