We’ve been hard at work on updating Arches, the Open Source, location-enabled asset inventory and management project.
Arches is an incredibly robust and flexible framework that we have applied to solutions in physical asset management, document management and approvals, environmental management and of course, cultural heritage.
The new Arches v3.0 coming out in February will add many capabilities to enable a wider audience to visualize resources and make decisions more efficiently, more flexibly and smarter. A few highlights of v3.0:
- A new user interface is now fully responsive and mobile-friendly for use on desktop, tablets and smartphones. The UI is beautiful, elegant and simple to use! An interactive graph view of resource relationships makes it easy and fun to uncover relationships and patterns.
- A new Reference Data Manager enables users to manage full-fledged thesauri or almost any kind of controlled vocabularies (particularly important when searching for images). Users can import an existing thesaurus or build their own and manage it dynamically from within the Arches interface.
- Drag-and-drop file upload, along with expanded data import/export
- Fast, fllexible search across any and all resource types
- Customizable reports
- Heritage Inventory Package included as a default “application” consisting of 6 resource graphs: Heritage Resources, Heritage Districts, Activities, Historical Events, Actors, Information Resources.
- A new streamlined installation process – Note: Arches is still an enterprise system and it simply cannot be as easy to install as an app. Contact us at Farallon for advice and help!
In related news, HistoricPlacesLA, an implementation of Arches by the City of Los Angeles, will debut on Feb 24, 2015
