Hello Mr. Lu, To respond to your questions:
1) Yes, you can add these new data fields to the current system, but I should point out it is a pretty involved process. It will also require a reinstallation of your Arches package, so if you have already added data to your system through the interface (without using a .arches file), you will first need to export all of your resources so that they are not lost during the reinstallation process. If you would like to follow this path, then I can find some threads that will help, or I could also personally offer you support in doing this if you are interested. However, the new system allows for much, much easier modification of the default data structure. Because of this, I would recoemmend that you either a) wait until you are able to use Arches 4 to capture this data or b) find fields within the existing structure that will fit your needs close enough for now, and can be translated to their new home in the next version of Arches. 2) I see what you mean about not being able to add new Resource to Resource Relationships. I recommend this as a very straight-forward workaround: 1. In RDM, with Arches selected in the left pane, find Manage > Add Top Concept to create a new item under the Arches menu. 2. Name this new top concept "New Relationship Types" 3. Now, find New Relationship Types in the left pane, and add your new concepts there. 4. Finally, under "Dropdown Menus", find Resource To Resource Relationships and you will now be able to add the new concepts you have added. 3) This will also require some configuration, and I think it would be best for you to start by reading through this forum thread <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/archesproject/language%7Csort:relevance/archesproject/YTopbQdPDQg/UO8o1LulAwAJ> about languages. The initial needs expressed there are different from your own, but as the commentary progresses you'll see that your question would be addressed by all of the work that is recorded in that thread. Are you familiar with the NCCU installation of Arches was recently released? Here is an Arches Project Facebook post <https://www.facebook.com/archesproject/posts/1086687568067138>that should be able to lead you to learn more. 4) The Arches ID is an internal identifier that exists for any resource. If you are uploading a .arches file, you can use this ID for RESOURCEID to update an existing resource in your database. Otherwise, I don't know of when you would need to use it. Note that this ID is the only thing that is unique to each resource. That is why you can have multiple resources with the same name, or with no attributes at all. Hope that helps, Adam On Wednesday, November 16, 2016 at 9:34:18 PM UTC-6, [email protected] wrote: > > Dear all, > > I am Mr. Lu from Academia Sinica Center for Digital Cultures (ASCDC) in > Taipei and we are undertaking now a research project concerning the early > Chinese Buddhist monuments with hope to apply the Arches system. After > installation of the Arches we face problems by using and thus hope for > having further instructions. Our questions are listed as followings: > > > > 1. In research of Chinese Buddhist monuments it is significant, for > example, to mark the depicted figures and type of their gestures, clothing > and other iconographic topic on the object besides giving general > information of each monument. In application of Arches we hope to set up > those special data fields for our research. But could it be possible to > establish these specific data tables in the current system and how could we > do for that? > > 2. In the Reference Data Manager (RDM), may we allow to add new > relation type under the box “Resource to Resource Relationship Types” to > express other possible relations between resources, such as “is documented > in/ documents in” or “member of the same group”? Unlike other data fields, > in the box of “Resource to Resource” it seems we cannot find "Manage" > switcher on the top right corner as others in RDM. > > 3. In RDM, when we add up a new concept, could we change the > language label in Chinese and how does it work and how can we do that? > > 4. After establishing a new resource in system, we can get an Arches > ID for each registered data. But what does it mean or does it represent its > URI number in system? > > > > I hope to find further suggestions to solve our problems. > > with best regards > > > Lu-Yen LU, ASCDC Taipei 17.11.2016 > -- -- 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.
