Arches Timeline (OLD)

2012
Getty Conservation Institute & World Monuments Fund hold first Arches community meeting in Los Angeles
Getty Conservation Institute & World Monuments Fund hold first Arches community meeting in Los Angeles

Participants, including English Heritage, Flanders Heritage Agency, Farallon Geographics, & Open Tech Strategies, provide input on advancing Arches as an open source project.

2013
Website launched, community forum made public, & source code released publicly

Arches is established online in the form of a website, forum, & accessible repository.

Arches project shares early development approach and receives feedback
Arches project shares early development approach and receives feedback

Two days of workshops in Hertfordshire, U.K. provide necessary feedback from institutions around Europe on an early Arches development approach.

Arches Version 1 released
Arches Version 1 released

The first version of Arches follows a standards-based approach, including incorporation of the Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage & CIDOC-CRM.

2014
Arches accepted into Google Summer of Code

In this open-source software coding program, students were given the opportunity to contribute code for Arches (thanks to support from Google).

Arches Version 2 released

New features in this version include: updates to Arches package management & streamlined database schema.

2015
City of Los Angeles launches HistoricPlacesLA
City of Los Angeles launches HistoricPlacesLA

Strategic partnership between GCI and City of Los Angeles serves as vehicle for development of new features in Arches v3.

Arches Version 3 released

New features in this version include: a new Reference Data Manager, graph view of related resources, improved installation process, node level security & numerous other new features & updates.

2016
Work on Arches for Science platform begins
Work on Arches for Science platform begins

Informed by a baseline study funded by the Seaver Institute, this system extends the Arches platform to manage and visualize science data and includes tools to help organize lab tasks for professionals involved in heritage science.

Last updated:  January 2023