Intro to the Arches Platform - Part 1: Capabilities
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Arches Webinars: Intro to the Arches Platform Part 1: Arches Capabilities Intro to the Arches Platform is a four-part webinar series. This series is ideal for anyone interested in learning about and exploring the key capabilities, tools, concepts and software architecture of the Arches cultural heritage data management platform. - - - Arches is an open source software platform freely available for cultural heritage organizations to manage their heritage resource data. More info about Arches here: www.archesproject.org
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- 1. Welcome! Intro to the Arches Platform Part 1 of 4 – Arches Capabilities Thursday, October 17, 2019
- 2. Intro to the Arches Platform Upcoming Webinars Data Management Tools Data Technology Concepts Information Architecture Part 2 CapabilitiesPart 1 Part 3 Part 4
- 3. Intro to the Arches Platform, Part 1 of 4: Arches Capabilities Webinar Agenda ● Background ● Arches Platform Overview ● Arches Platform Capabilities - Data Management Overview - Data Visualization & Discovery ● Questions & Answers
- 4. Intro to the Arches Platform, Part 1 of 4: Arches Capabilities Arches Project Background Developed jointly by the Getty Conservation Institute and World Monuments Fund, Arches is an open- source software platform purpose built for cultural heritage data management. Arches is supported by a growing community of heritage, preservation and technology professionals.
- 5. Intro to the Arches Platform, Part 1 of 4: Arches Capabilities About the Arches Platform ● Open Source and free – no licensing fees and unlimited users. ● Enterprise-level software ● Independent deployment by an organization or institution.
- 6. Arches Platform Overview Capabilities Data Management Data Discovery & Visualization Data Management Tools Data Technology Concepts Information Architecture • Arches Collector – Mobile App • Resource Manager • Arches Designer • Reference Data Manager • Data Standards • Semantics/ Ontologies (incl. CIDOC CRM) • Controlled Vocabularies • Fuzzy Dates • Software Stack • Software Standards ReportsTimeRelationshipsGISSearchData Part 2 Part 1 Part 3 Part 4 Intro to the Arches Platform, Part 1 of 4: Arches Capabilities
- 7. Arches Platform Capabilities Intro to the Arches Platform, Part 1 of 4: Arches Capabilities
- 8. Arches Platform Capabilities Data Management Overview Data Discovery & Visualization • Collect & Ingest • Structure • Store • Controlled Access • Saved Searches • Semantic Searches • Advanced Search • Geospatial Search • Interactive Map • Basemaps • Historic Maps • Satellite Imagery • Overlays • Resource Relation- ships • Timewheel • Fuzzy Dates • Reports • Extended Viewers • IIIF Viewers • Spectra Charts ReportsTimeRelationshipsGISSearchData Intro to the Arches Platform, Part 1 of 4: Arches Capabilities
- 9. Arches Platform Capabilities Data Management Overview Data Discovery & Visualization • Collect & Ingest • Structure • Store • Controlled Access • Saved Searches • Semantic Searches • Advanced Search • Geospatial Search • Interactive Map • Basemaps • Historic Maps • Satellite Imagery • Overlays • Resource Relation- ships • Timewheel • Fuzzy Dates • Reports • Extended Viewers • IIIF Viewers • Spectra Charts ReportsTimeRelationshipsGISSearchData Intro to the Arches Platform, Part 1 of 4: Arches Capabilities
- 10. Arches Platform Capabilities Data Management Overview Data Discovery & Visualization • Collect & Ingest • Structure • Store • Controlled Access • Saved Searches • Semantic Searches • Advanced Search • Geospatial Search • Interactive Map • Basemaps • Historic Maps • Satellite Imagery • Overlays • Resource Relation- ships • Timewheel • Fuzzy Dates • Reports • Extended Viewers • IIIF Viewers • Spectra Charts ReportsTimeRelationshipsGISSearchData Intro to the Arches Platform, Part 1 of 4: Arches Capabilities
- 11. HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES: Interactive Map, Basemaps, Historic Maps, Map Overlays, Geospatial Search ARCADE, the Arches-powered online heritage information and management system for the City of Lincoln, UK: https://arcade.lincoln.gov.uk
- 12. HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES: Saved Searches, Semantic Search, Timewheel Arches Sample Instance using data from the Valley of the Queens Conservation Project of the Getty Conservation Institute
- 13. HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES: Saved Search, Related Resources, Reports Arches Sample Instance using data about Frank Lloyd Wright legacy in Los Angeles.
- 14. HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES: Geospatial Search, Semantic Search, Advanced Search Arches Sample Instance using data from the City of Los Angeles
- 15. HIGHLIGHTED FEATURES: Extending core Arches, Reports, 3D Viewers Global Digital Heritage, https://www.globaldigitalheritage.org/
- 16. Coming Next!
- 17. Intro to the Arches Platform Upcoming Webinars Data Management Tools Data Technology Concepts Information Architecture • Arches Collector – Mobile App • Resource Manager • Arches Designer • Reference Data Manager • Data Standards • Semantics/ Ontologies (incl. CIDOC CRM) • Controlled Vocabularies • Fuzzy Dates Part 2 • Software Stack • Software Standards Capabilities • Data Management • Data Discovery & Visualization Part 1 Part 3 Part 4
- 18. Arches Q&A
- 19. - Thank you - Share your feedback: contact@archesproject.org Community Support - Arches Forum: www.groups.google.com/archesproject Webinar repository – www.archesproject.org/videos
Editor's Notes
- Recording,
- As mentioned earlier, Part 2 will cover the data management tools that allows you to collect, structure, store and control access to your data. Part 3 will cover the underlying data technology concepts that help to explain how Arches deals with your data and why this is important. Part 4 will be an overview of Arches Technology & Information Architecture, including a look at the various software components and standards. We will be announcing dates for these in the future. Be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, follow us on social media or check our events page on Archesproject.org for more information as it is released.
- For insights, analysis, monitoring, risk mitigation, planning, research and ultimately to improve decision making.
- Thanks, Alina! And thank you to everyone out there for attending this webinar. Alina has given you a quick overview about Arches, and I wanted to remind you that if you have any questions about anything she mentioned or if you have any questions about what I’m about to cover (or anything else, actually), please use the Q&A feature to log your question and we will try to get to as many questions as possible at the end of the presentation portion of the webinar. As Alina mentioned, the Arches Platform is a robust fully featured system for cultural organizations to manage their data.
- And by fully featured and robust, we mean that we created a platform that can both manage your data behind the scenes, using the latest data standards and technologies, and if you wish, publish that data in a controlled way. The users to whom you’ve given access to your data, this can be just you and your staff or it can be anyone on the web or any group in between, can then discover information visually in many different ways or really interrogate the database using the search tools that come standard with Arches. For this webinar, I’ll briefly go over the data management capabilities at a higher level and then go into a little more depth on the data discovery and visualization tools within Arches. As Alina mentioned, the 2nd webinar in this series will cover more of the data management aspects.
- So regarding data management, Arches gives you the ability to Collect & Ingest data in several different ways: you can bulk import existing legacy data, you can enter new information via the Arches interface, and if you’re out in the field, you can use the Arches Collector on your mobile device to collection data and sync to your Arches instance. And not only is that data stored in Arches, but you also have the opportunity to define how that data is structured and optimized for use and who gets to access that data. Which leads to the search & discovery and visualization capabilities…
- I’ll be discussing most of the data discovery and visualization capabilities today by looking at various use cases in which you might some of the features that you see in the slide. What I will not be going over in this presentation are fuzzy dates, viewers for the IIIF standard, and spectra charts, which will be covered in other webinars.
- The Arches Platform is meant to be deployed by cultural heritage organizations independently, meaning that each organization makes decisions about how they want to brand their Arches-powered system, how the data is organized, and generally, how to configure the system to meet their own use case. What I’m showing you now is a screen capture of how the City of Lincoln in the UK is using Arches to manage data on both archaeological and heritage conservation data. (START video) ARCADE is the online heritage information and management system for the City of Lincoln, and a distinctive feature of ARCADE is the use of maps in various different ways to tell the story of the richness of heritage in Lincoln. Basemaps > Overlays > Historic Maps > Geospatial Search
- Moving from ARCADE, we’ve set up a sample Arches instance here with information loaded from the Getty Conservation Institute’s Valley of the Queens Conservation project. If you’ve been to Arches demo site, this is a similar instance of Arches. So, in the last video, we saw how you can use the geospatial features to explore data in an Arches instance. But in addition, the Arches platform has features that give you to power to make more direct queries and do so in any combination of ways. So perhaps, I have a research project in which I need to understand how many Chamber Tombs in the Valley of the Queens were constructed in the 12th Century BCE, here’s a way to do that. (start video) First, this particular instance of Arches has some searches saved so that users can access with one click a particular set of data. So, I’m going to start with selecting the Valley of the Queens saved search. (A note here is that these are easy for your Arches administrator to create and are a great way to pointing users to the curated datasets that you want them to be aware of). Next, I’m going to search for Chamber Tombs, which should further narrow down my search. And then, I’m going to use the Timewheel feature to find out how many of these chamber tombs in the Valley of the Queens were constructed in the 13th Century BCE. And then let’s see how many were constructed in the 12th century BCE to answer the initial question I posed. The Timewheel is a graphical representation of the time and date values in this particular Arches instance. In this instance, the outer ring represents the century distribution of the data.
- Often, it important to understand the various relationships between whatever resources you are recording. This year, a collection of eight heritage sites were inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List as a showcase of American architect Frank Lloyd Wright’s legacy on Modern architecture. In this example, we’ll explore his impact on Los Angeles. First, we’ll click on the saved search, Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles, and we see that we have an assortment of buildings and people that are associated with the architect. By clicking on Related Resources, we are presented with the Related Resources tool which visualizes the network of relationships present in the data. So in the case, we will explore the relationship of various buildings and people with Frank Lloyd Wright. You can navigate through the network graph OR you can use the right hand panel to navigate through all the relationships and potentially reveal additional relationships beyond the initial relationships.
- Here’s another question that might be asked in the course of development planning: if there is a development project, what are the potential impacts to the historic fabric? To answer this question, let’s look at data from the City of Los Angeles. The more specific question here is: what is the potential impact of new subway line construction on Art Deco historic resources in the Miracle Mile area of Los Angeles? First, let’s define the impact area by drawing a line, using the geospatial search tools, and specifying a buffer of 1000 feet. (as a note, this is an arbitrary number and I’m sure that there are impact guidelines for tunnel boring machines) Okay, now let’s do a search of Art Deco resources in the impact area. And let’s further whittle it down by resource type. I know that I’m not interested in multifamily residential buildings, so I’ll search for that first and then double-click the term in the search box to get the reverse search. So there are ??? Art deco historic resources that are not multifamily residential buildings. Now, how many of these are on the National Register? Let’s use the Advanced Search for this. The Advanced Search gives you a snapshot of all of the available data fields in the system to search against. This is a great tool if you’re visiting an Arches-powered system with no advanced knowledge of what kind of data that that particular instance of Arches holds. So this is sample data, so only 1 resource is returned… and if you’re familiar with LA’s miracle mile, you know that number would be higher with the full set of LA’s data.
- We started these examples looking at ARCADE, the City of Lincoln’s Arches implementation. And we’ll end looking at another implementation of Arches. Global Digital Heritage is a non-profit organization that is dedicated to using digital visualization, 3D virtualization, geospatial informatics, and open access solutions to make digital data and 3D models of cultural heritage freely available. In order to serve their mission of making all of their scan data and results accessible, they extended Arches and modified Arches standard report template to include various interactive 3D and video viewers. In the video, we explore the Molino de ??? and a Sketchfab model of the windmill mechanism, a Potree Pointcloud of the site, and a video that brings all of visualizations together. One thing that Alina touched upon is that Arches is an open source platform and the license under which we operate requires that any improvements to the core Arches code be made available to the rest of the Arches community. So, the ability to embed these kinds of viewers is now available to the entire Arches community, and the instructions on how to incorporate them are accessible via a post on our forum, made by Arches community member Vincent Meijer.
- So, that was a brief tour of Arches’ more forward-facing capabilities, in the next parts of this webinar series, we’ll be taking a deeper dive and taking a look underneath the hood, so-to-speak….
- As mentioned earlier, Part 2 will cover the data management tools that allows you to collect, structure, store and control access to your data. Part 3 will cover the underlying data technology concepts that help to explain how Arches deals with your data and why this is important. Part 4 will be an overview of Arches Technology & Information Architecture, including a look at the various software components and standards. We will be announcing dates for these in the future. Be sure to subscribe to our mailing list, follow us on social media or check our events page on Archesproject.org for more information as it is released.
- And now, we’ll move into the Q&A portion of the webinar….