Annabel Lee EnriquezAssociate Project Specialist | Getty Conservation Institute (GCI)

aenriquez@getty.edu | @annabellee3D

Arches Version 4: A case study in developing a modular semantically-enabled data management platform for ongoing

documentation of all types of cultural heritage

www.archesproject.org / @archesproject

Brief introduction to Arches

Arches development & semantic modeling

Creating semantic data models with the Arches Designer

Arches Resource Model Working Group

Arches Community

Future

Outline

Arches is…

a modern open-source geospatial platform for cultural heritage organizations to independently publish & manage their cultural heritage data

Heritage Inventories

software free

based on international standards

purpose built & customizable

permission-based access

Essential requirements:

Organization 1

Organization 2

Internal Users

General Public

Trusted External Users

Internal UsersOnly

All data & editingcapabilities

Some data &NO editingcapabilities

Some data &some editingcapabilities

Current Features

Geospatial Visualization

DATA DISCOVERY DATA MANAGEMENT

PermissionsAdvanced Search

Semantic Search

Time Wheel

Related Resources

Related Resources

Saved Searches

Reference Data Manager:

Controlled Vocabularies

Users

Data Entry

Arches Designer:

CRM/Ontologies

Data Types

Data Entry Forms

Reports

MapServer

Geospatial Visualization

Building a Search

Related Resources

Time Wheel

Arches development and semantic

modeling

Project Start through Version 22011-13

• DATA MODEL

• Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage

• MIDAS Heritage

• Dublin Core

• CIDOC-CRM

Arches Version 32015

• Reference Data Manager Controlled Vocabulary Management

Arches Version 42017/18

•Arches Designer UI-driven Dynamic Database Generation

Initial resource types

Heritage Resource: Culturally significant places such as archaeological sites,

buildings, structures, shipwrecks, or any place regarded as heritage.

Heritage Resource Group: Culturally significant resources that are best

regarded as a group such as historic districts and thematic groupings.

People/Organizations: Persons or groups of people such as architects,

surveying firms, historical figures, and cultural groups.

Historical Event: Historically significant occurrences such as armed conflicts,

natural disasters and sporting events.

Activity: Actions that occur over a period of time such as surveys, investigations,

and excavations.

Information Resource: Objects that encode information such as images

(digital and analog photographs), reports, audio recordings, and 3D models.

HERITAGE RESOURCE

E18 Physical Thing

HERITAGE RESOURCE

E18 Physical Thing

NAME

E41 Appellation

HERITAGE RESOURCE

E18 Physical Thing

NAME

E41 Appellation

QV 66

HERITAGE RESOURCE

E18 Physical Thing

NAME

E41 Appellation

NAME TYPE

E55 Type

QV 66

Primary

HERITAGE RESOURCE

E18 Physical Thing

NAME

E41 Appellation

NAME TYPE

E55 Type

Tomb of

Nefertari

Alternative

Ramesses II

Ernesto Schiaparelli

Nefertari-Merymut

Italian Archaeological Mission Investigation

QV 66

Project Start through Version 22011-13

• DATA MODEL

• Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage

• MIDAS Heritage

• Dublin Core

• CIDOC-CRM

Arches Version 32015

• Reference Data Manager (RDM)Controlled Vocabulary Management

Arches Version 42017/18

•Arches Designer UI-driven Dynamic Database Generation

RDM (Reference Data Manager)

Project Start through Version 22011-13

• DATA MODEL

• Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage

• MIDAS Heritage

• Dublin Core

• CIDOC-CRM

Arches Version 32015

• Reference Data Manager (RDM)Controlled Vocabulary Management

Arches Version 42017/18

•Arches Designer UI-driven Dynamic Database Generation

Project Start through Version 22011-13

• DATA MODEL

• Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage

• MIDAS Heritage

• Dublin Core

• CIDOC-CRM

Arches Version 32015

• Reference Data Manager (RDM)Controlled Vocabulary Management

Arches Version 42017/18

•Arches Designer UI-driven Dynamic Database Generation

Arches Designer

Arches Designer

Data Model

• Define Ontology (CRM-based)

• Define Data Types RDM

• Define Data Relationships

Data Entry

• Select Data Widgets

• Write Functions/ Card Components

Reports

• Templates

Arches Designer

Arches Designer

Arches Designer

Arches Designer

Arches Designer

Arches Designer

Data Types

String, Number

Date, Fuzzy Dates (based on EDTF)

Geospatial data

Charts for scientific instrumentation data

Image and File upload or via IIIF image server

Reference to other resources

Concept data

Vocabularies in Reference Data Manager

Arches Designer

Arches Designer

Current work: creating modeling patterns and basic branches that are LOD-ready in Arches

Resource Model Working Group

Future work: documentation on best practices for Arches resource model creation and peer review of user-submitted resource models

Resource Model Working Group

Ultimate aim: a repository of Arches Resource Models and Branches for various use cases

Resource Model Working Group

Community

Known arches activity (as of March 2018)

Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa (EAMENA)

Philippine Heritage Map

HistoricPlacesLA

City of Lincoln

Kingdom of Nepal

Kingdom of Bhutan

https://www.archesproject.org/implementations-of-arches/

• Greater London Historic Environment Record (GLHER)

• Oblique Aerial Photography

• Maritime Heritage• Vocabularies

• Provenance Index Remodel (GRI)

• Phototech (GRI)• DISCO (GCI)• AATA Online Update

(GCI)• Getty Vocabs (GRI)

Mobile Data Collection App

Online/Offline, iOS/Android

Workflow Module

API Documentation

JSON-LD

https://github.com/archesproject/arches

Coming soon

www.archesproject.org

Questions?

www.archesproject.orghttps://github.com/archesproject/arches

@archesproject