Why Have a Cultural Heritage Inventory Part 2: Leverage Your Resources to Make Informed Decisions
In our last post we looked at searching for and finding key resources in our inventory. Today, let’s look at how our inventory can help you make informed decisions about how to preserve and protect our heritage resources. In particular, Arches for HERs can help you navigate the precarious balancing act between preserving resources and […]
Why Have a Cultural Heritage Inventory If You Can’t Find What You’re Looking For?
When you think of The Beatles, you remember iconic songs, picture colorful suits or their legendary strides across Abbey Road. The four guys who started out as a niche, little indie band transformed the face of music as we know it, and their influence spread all over the world. But when it comes to preserving […]
The Farallon Round-up: Looking Back at the Fall 2024 Hack Trip
And what a trip it was! This season’s hack trip brought the team back to Palm Springs, California for some time in the sun. Falling just before the end of the hot season, the team faced the desert head on with the power of gasoline and adrenaline at our backs, in a sight akin to […]
Effective Stewardship Starts Here
Given the gravity of the events that we’ve brought up thus far, you might be thinking that our solution to making our clients better stewards is radical. Maybe something along the lines of the climate-controlling satellites from Geostorm (2017) or shooting silver iodide rockets into tornados like Daisy Edgar-Jones’ character, Kate, in Twisters (2024). While […]
Resource Stewardship in a Changing World
In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene and the full force of Hurricane Milton, we’ve had time to reflect on the devastation the storms brought and how quickly they’ve altered the way many people recognize our changing world. The storms tore across the southeastern United States, flooding cities and towns, destroying structures and landscapes, tragically inflicting […]
Historic England Officially Launches Arches for HERs To Enhance Data Management Capabilities
A Modern Approach to Stewardship Farallon Geographics is thrilled to attend the official launch of Historic England’s implementation of Arches, an innovative web-based platform which promises to comprehensively enhance the stewardship of England’s cultural heritage resources. Developed in collaboration with Historic England and the Getty Museum, Arches for HERs is a state-of-the-art, open-source data management, […]