Hi David, and welcome to the Arches community! It's good to hear that Arches is being adopted at Jersey Heritage. Maybe you could post a bit more about the particular issues arising with that installation? I'm sure your experience will be useful to other Arches sites.
The PhD sounds fascinating. Do you see a potential use for Arches in documenting your research? Animal husbandry sites? Collection documentation? Prehistoric transhumance routeways? All the best Ed On Tuesday, August 15, 2017 at 5:21:51 PM UTC+1, David Osborne wrote: > Hello all > > I'm fairly new to Arches, as I've joined a small project team to set up an > Arches installation for Jersey Heritage (Jersey is the largest of the > Channel Islands, near the northern coast of France). My career has been in > IT and for some time now, I've worked for Information Services in the > University of Nottingham, so on our Arches project, I'm the technical nerd! > I'm happiest with Linux, MacOS and open-source software, so I'm finding > Arches fun to work with. However, my academic background is in archaeology > and I will be going part-time from the end of September to start a PhD here > at Nottingham, looking at diet and mobility of animals and people in > prehistoric Lincolnshire (from the Neolithic to the Iron Age). With Lincoln > being fairly close, the "disco_data" example data for Arches includes > several sites I know. > > As I write this from my office desk, sunshine is streaming through the > windows and outside, I can see a landscaped garden area between two blocks > of our buildings. No heritage to speak of, although our King's Meadow > Campus where I'm based used to be the old Carlton TV studios, so that's > some sort of late 20C heritage. > > regards > David > > On Thursday, 22 August 2013 16:29:37 UTC+1, Edmund Lee wrote: >> >> Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the >> Arches Discussion Forum recently. >> >> This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has just >> recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met before. >> How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if we were >> meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to this thread >> and share with the group some or all of the following: >> >> - what is your interest in Arches? >> >> >> - where in the world are you working? >> >> and, just to make it a bit more fun, >> >> - what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your >> view? >> >> I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better! >> >> >> Ed >> > -- -- 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.
