Hi John, On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 3:39:33 PM UTC, John Murphy wrote: > > > - what is your interest in Arches? > - I work for the Historic Environment Division, part of the > Department for Communities, Northern Ireland. I'm interested in Arches > because it looks to provide many of the functions that we might look > for in > a potential replacement for the various heritage asset databases that > we > have. I started out as a field archaeologist and have become involved > in > digital heritage management by osmosis and while I like to think that > I've > an informed interest in software development, frankly, I'm a complete > novice. I've managed to get the Arches 4.3 splash page working on a > DigitalOcean server, that's something I guess :) > - where in the world are you working? > - In the National Monuments and Buildings Record (NI) office, which > is in the Klondyke Building, Belfast. > - what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your > view? > - Can I even see a window from my seat? Just about, but there's not > much of a view. The one thing I can see out the window are the external > red > brick walls of our building, which is a former Retort House built in > 1891 > and which formed part of the Belfast Gasworks. It's not much to look at > from here, but I guess it counts as heritage. > > Sounds like you are just around the corner from a couple of our team also in the Gasworks, with a similar view out of the window - a very small world.
Interested to hear more about your experiences with Arches, especially as I'm guessing we may have looked at some similar local datasets - would be great to catch up on NI content at some point, if you are in the neighbourhood and have a little time! With best wishes, Phil -- -- 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]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/archesproject/0ab8f219-44fc-444f-ab8a-73e0f65f65fd%40googlegroups.com.
