Arches Timeline
Participants, including English Heritage, Flanders Heritage Agency, Farallon Geographics, & Open Tech Strategies, provide input on advancing Arches as an open source project.
Arches is established online in the form of a website, forum, & accessible repository.
Two days of workshops in Hertfordshire, U.K. provide necessary feedback from institutions around Europe on an early Arches development approach.
The first version of Arches follows a standards-based approach, including incorporation of the Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage & CIDOC-CRM.
In this open-source software coding program, students were given the opportunity to contribute code for Arches (thanks to support from Google).
New features in this version include: updates to Arches package management & streamlined database schema.
Strategic partnership between GCI and City of Los Angeles serves as vehicle for development of new features in Arches v3.
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.
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.
Partnership formed to support Arches implementations for the City of Lincoln & Greater London as well as Arches for HERs software package.
New features in this version include: the Arches Designer to facilitate data modelling & customized UI forms, enhanced graph visualization & advanced search.
This group focuses on establishing standard modeling patterns in Arches & peer reviewing community contributions to the Arches package library.
This event, with attendees from UK, the Philippines, Nepal, Canada & the US, guided developers in customizing and extending the core functionality of Arches Version 4.
User group in the UK becomes space for those implementing Arches to share experiences, expertise, & combine efforts.
This mobile data collection companion app for Arches facilitates data collection and editing in the field, including images.
New features introduced in this version: Arches Workflows, a flexible tool to manage numerous routine tasks for heritage management and conservation science.
Attendees discussed software development & code review for developers who want to be part of the Arches open-source software contribution process.
All new, robust, stand-alone Arches RDM is under development.
New features in this version include: a IIIF image service manager & improvements to Arches Workflows.
The GCI Arches team and external stakeholders meet to discuss planning for sustainability & community-driven governance for the Arches project, identifying key goals and next steps.
Last updated: January 2024