[Arches] Re: Monitoring and risk mapping Feature question

[David Myers]

Dear Xavier

I would like to add to Dennis' response to your query by mentioning a few 
different implementations of the Arches platform  that the Arches Project 
is aware of that deal with either condition monitoring or risk assessment 
of cultural heritage resources. As Dennis mentioned, Arches provides for 
multiple ways of analyzing risk/threat information, including through 
displaying the geospatial distribution of specific types of risk/threat, 
potentially including risk assessments that have been made within specific 
time spans.

The *Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA) 
*project, 
which based at the Universities of Oxford, Leicester and Durham in the UK, 
has been recording archaeological sites and landscapes deemed to be under 
threat across the entire Middle East and North Africa region. The project 
has devised a wide-ranging controlled vocabulary of specific threat types 
that it has been recording, and has thus far recorded more than 100,00 
archaeological resources. You can find more information about the EAMENA 
instance of Arches v3 as well as access to a public version at:
http://eamena.arch.ox.ac.uk/resources/database-2/  


The *Armed Forces Retirement Home* is a US government agency that manages a 
historic campus in Washington, DC that has been in continuous operation as 
a retirement home for veterans since the 1850s. The Armed Forces Retirement 
Home and its staff have been using their instance of Arches to manage its 
campus planning and federal environmental compliance activities, which 
includes recording the monitoring of cultural resources. You can access the 
AFRH instance of Arches v3 at: http://www.afrh-iris.com

The* Florida Public Archaeology Network 
*, or FPAN, is a US state of Florida 
supported organization of regional centers dedicated to public outreach and 
assisting Florida municipalities and the Florida Division of Historical 
Resources "to promote the stewardship and protection of Florida's 
archaeological resources." FPAN is now preparing for the launch of its 
instance of Arches v4 to, in part, serve as a tool for statewide monitoring 
of the condition of and threats to archaeological resources. 

In case you didn't see it, you might also find of interest this recent post 
on the forum regarding ways that a couple of Arches implementations 
(including AFRH) are being used for heritage management purposes:
https://groups.google.com/d/msg/archesproject/MaPCL5QMnrM/NgVGR71_BQAJ  


Feel free to send a message directly to me if you would like me to put you 
in touch with any the individuals working with Arches in these examples.

Best,
David Myers
For the Arches team
 

On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 4:24:46 AM UTC-8, Xavier Prat wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I read in the Arches 4 fact sheet the followin feature about the platform:
>
> --> monitoring and risk mapping.
>
> I wonder if could i got some examples about this feature. Which is the 
> strategy to map risks under Arches? And what kind of risks are you talking 
> about in this fact sheet?
>
>
> thank you
>
> Xavier Prat
>

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[Arches] Re: Monitoring and risk mapping Feature question

[Dennis Wuthrich]

Hi Xavier,

Arches is pretty flexible and allows you to define the scope and content of 
the monitoring and risk mapping that you want to implement.  For example, 
you could use Arches to track the risk exposure heritage objects have to 
environmental risks (e.g.: risk of damage due to fires, earthquake, 
flooding) or other events (e.g.: re-alignment of a road, redevelopment of 
an area, or altered development policy for an area) using Arches' 
integrated GIS.  Alternatively, you could integrate existing GIS 
data/services into Arches.  And, if you're concerned about risks that 
aren't geospatial (risk of adverse effects due to reduced funding of 
maintenance activities), you define your risk model in Arches.  Simple 
models (such as "High", "Medium", and "Low") are easy to implement.  You 
can implement much more sophisticated risk models using Arches' ability to 
associate functions written in Python. 

The same is true for monitoring heritage objects.  Arches allows you to 
define the information you wish to manage over the course of your 
monitoring efforts.  Simple monitoring might include a statement of the 
condition of and object at a point in time and include photos documenting 
the condition.  More sophisticated monitoring workflows can be implemented 
as functions, or even as full-blown Arches applications.

Hope this is helpful,

Dennis

On Friday, February 2, 2018 at 4:24:46 AM UTC-8, Xavier Prat wrote:
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I read in the Arches 4 fact sheet the followin feature about the platform:
>
> --> monitoring and risk mapping.
>
> I wonder if could i got some examples about this feature. Which is the 
> strategy to map risks under Arches? And what kind of risks are you talking 
> about in this fact sheet?
>
>
> thank you
>
> Xavier Prat
>

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