Hi James,
I had the exact same problem and so did some other users. The controlled
vocabulary, concepts, you are looking for is supplied by Arches in sample
authority files but they are stored as sample data and are not
automatically loaded on installation. There are some 50 files in total and
they are not particularly generic, the concepts are loosely based on those
used for the Historic LA project. Most users find that it is easier to
customize these files and load them into the system instead of using the
RDM, but it depends on how substantial your changes are. I found it best to
load the sample authority files (controlled vocabulary) so I could play
with Arches, to understand better how the concept hierarchies worked. Then
I also made changes through the RDM which helped further my understanding.
But I found that making the changes I needed through the RDM (I am making
an inventory of Egyptian archaeological sites) was time consuming so I
customized the authority files and started loading them. The installation
documentation for Arches HIP explains how to edit these files.
If you would like to load the sample files, you should try these steps as
given to me by another user:
The sample authority files should be here:
./ENV/lib/python2.7/site-packages/arches_hip/source_
data/sample_data/concepts/sample_authority_files/
In order to make them available for your Project you need to copy them to
the location specified in the variable CONCEPT_SCHEME_LOCATIONS in your
settings.py :
In my case:
CONCEPT_SCHEME_LOCATIONS = (
# Put strings here, like "/home/data/authority_files" or
"C:/data/authority_files".
# Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
# Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
#'absolute/path/to/authority_files',
os.path.normpath(os.path.join(PACKAGE_ROOT, 'source_data', 'concepts',
'authority_files')),
)
My project is called defc_site_2_224 and was located under
/opt/arches3/Projects - so the above setting actually points to the
following path:
'/opt/arches3/Projects/defc_site_2_224/defc_site_2_224/source_data/concepts/
authority_files'
As stated above you can put the authority files *wherever you want* as long
as you write the correct path into settings.py
When your authority files are in the location you specified in the
settings.py place you best re-install arches with :
python manage.py packages -o install
I hope this is successful. Please also check the Cat Moody thread on this
forum as she had the same problem. I am sure more technical people than
will also provide help if this does not work.
Lucy
On Saturday, February 6, 2016 at 2:17:35 AM UTC+2, James wrote:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I have been reading through the documentation and trying to understand
> what to do to set up Arches-HIP. I wanted to start creating some controlled
> vocabularies using the RDM. However, to my surprise there are no concept
> listed underneath the Arches concept scheme. In fact the statistics
> reported by RDM is:
>
> - 43 collections
> - 2 schemes
> - 136 entity types
> - 0 concepts
>
> Is this correct? I'm concerned because it doesn't match what is shown in
> the documentation. I did not see any errors during the installation
> process. So I am baffled as to what went wrong. I'm sure I'm missing
> something very simple but we don't quite understand what we are doing yet
> with Arches.
>
>
> Best regards,
>
> James
>
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