Developed by the Getty Conservation Institute and the World Monuments Fund with Farallon Geographics as the geospatial, UI and application design development team, the Arches project is an open source, web- and geospatially based information system designed to inventory and manage all types of immovable heritage, including archaeological sites, buildings, structures, landscapes, and heritage ensembles or districts.

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. We’ve built it to include advanced capabilities such as semantic ontology, graph database, elastic search and built-in mechanisms to enforce data standards.

This video gives a good overview of applying the Arches framework to cultural heritage projects including the City of Los Angeles.