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Members of the Arches Project team talk with Directions Magazine

Last week, Directions Magazine, a leading source of information about geospatial technologies, interviewed two members of the Arches project team about Arches. Yiannis Avramides (World Monuments Fund) and Alison Dalgity (Getty Conservation Institute) spoke to Directions about the project and explained the need for a system like Arches as well as what makes Arches different from other options. Questions had to do with
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Arches at the 2013 CAA Conference

Members of the Arches team from the Getty Conservation Institute, World Monuments Fund, and Farallon Geographics, will be traveling to Australia in March for the 2013 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) conference. Two different papers on Arches will be presented, in sessions S15 (“Databases on cultural heritage and their geographic visualization”) and S33 (“Open sour
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Welcome to the Arches project!

On January 30, 2013 we launched archesproject.org, a website about the Arches project! Arches is a new, open-source, web-based, geospatial information system for cultural heritage inventory and management. Arches is purpose-built for the international cultural heritage field, and it is designed to record all types of immovable heritage, including archaeological sites, buildings and other historic structures, landscap
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