Hi, After half a lifetime working as a government administrator in South Georgia in the south atlantic, where I slowly developed a strong interest in the cultural heritage (whaling, sealing, military, cemeteries) I am now back in the UK and want to develop an online register of the Island's Cultural Heritage sites as a public resource. Arches looks like the perfect tool for the job. It covers all the angles that I have learned are important for data management, is spatial, and free.
My background is quite IT strongish - I developed a lot of fishery and harbour management databases, learning by reverse-engineering Access and then MySQL databases to improve them. So I have set up MySQL servers, apache, Access, MySQL (with Access front end). Also self-taught web programming to develop my website documenting the island's cemeteries (http://www.cems.wildisland.gs) first with a text editor then learning to use a CMS (Joomla). More recently I have started learning GIS stuff using QGIS, providing mapping and GPS support for a six-month rodent monitoring project on South Georgia. So now I am learning again. Virtual machine on my windows laptop running Ubuntu - the Xenial version for Arches specifically. That was an uphill struggle but I think I am there now. Now I am installing Arches. The first try failed and I am hoping some patient guru(s) might kindly guide me when I hit problems that I cannot easily solve. I am dealing with a whole raft of new (to me) technologies so there will be some very basic stuff that will have you rolling your eyes skywards. It seems the install script is not quite perfect and I'd like to contribute by tweaking it in the light of my experience so that it will be a smoother job for the next person. My aim is to have a working installation on the laptop by the end of the month. Then I can develop the actual application over the next few months when I will be at sea without Internet. Then next year I want to put it online, probably using AWS. More learning. Out of the window? The south Devon coast. On a good day, the heritage coast of Dorset glows red in the distance. And just over the sea wall is a post that used to stretch a chain to keep the U-Boats out of Teignmouth. Cheers all, Pat On Thursday, August 22, 2013 at 4:29:37 PM 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.
