🌐 As open-source software, Lingo development is collaborative & mission-driven, not profit-driven. The roadmap is informed by the needs of the cultural heritage community, not corporate strategy. 🔗 Learn about Lingo: tinyurl.com/archeslingo #ArchesLingo #VocabularyManagement

Highlights from the @maeasamproject.bsky.social team’s workshop "Constructing Heritage Databases" at ASAPA 2026 in Mpumalanga, South Africa last month, which included an overview of the Arches platform.

MAEASaM@maeasamproject.bsky.social · 3w ago

Last week, our workshop on Constructing Heritage Databases from conceptualisation to implementation was held at ASAPA 2026 in Mpumalanga, South Africa. Thanks to all participants who joined on the day! #Workshop #AfricanHeritage #Databases #ASAPA2026

Arches-related #job: Historic England is seeking 2 Marine Data Analysts who will help transform marine heritage data within the Marine Data Exchange (MDE) and the Arches-powered Marine Historic Environment Record (MHER).

📚Why does proper vocab management matter for cultural heritage data? Because a single heritage term could have many meanings depending on context, like language. Arches Lingo helps heritage teams DEFINE, STRUCTURE & LINK the concepts behind their vocabs: tinyurl.com/archeslingo

▶️ Recording now available: Learn how to navigate Arches Designer in a deep dive of the newly available Arches Modeling interactive demo site, presented during the June 30 Modeling Interest Group meeting.

Arches Modeling Interest Group (June 30, 2026)

Meeting of the Arches Modeling Interest Group on June 30, 2026, featuring a deep dive of the Arches Modeling interactive demo site, including how to use the site to learn more about creating resource models in Arches. Visit the Arches Modeling interactive demo site: https://www.archesproject.org/mo

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🗣️ Use your language fluency to support use of the Arches platform by providing user interface translations! No coding necessary. Learn how to contribute new or enhance in-progress translations using Weblate: archesproject.org/tr...

Arches-related #job: ‪‪UCL Institute of Archaeology‬‬ seeks a Research Fellow in African Heritage, Remote Sensing & GIS to join @maeasamproject.bsky.social. The role builds Mali site records from satellite imagery & links them to the project's Arches database. Deadline to apply: July 26

UCL Institute of Archaeology@uclarchaeology.bsky.social · last mo.

We are hiring: Research Fellow in African Heritage, Remote Sensing and GIS The postholder will be employed on the Mapping Africa’s Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments (MAEASaM) project. Full time | Hybrid | Fixed-term | Deadline: 26 July 2026 Find out more: tinyurl.com/2myczpv8 #jobs

📢 Join the Arches Modeling Interest Group meeting tomorrow, June 30 at 8am PDT / 4pm BST for a deep dive into the Arches Modeling interactive demo site, including how to use the site to learn more about creating resource models in Arches. More info: tinyurl.com/modeling...

🗓️ Save the date! The Arches US Interest Group will meet Thurs, July 9, 12–1pm PDT to discuss the export, transform, load (ETL) process. Attendees will share their experiences with tools like the Arches Bulk Data Manager, Open Refine, and more.

Are you curious about how data models are created, edited & utilized in Arches? The new Modeling Demo site is now live! The interactive site is a resource for those evaluating Arches or those interested in testing out the Arches Designer tool: www.archesproject.or...

🗺️ Who Is Using Arches? The GEMENE‑ST project maps the Genoese merchant network (1450–1530) & slave trade across the Mediterranean & the Atlantic, highlighting connections between thousands of historical records. 🔗 Explore the database, hosted by @dhiroma.bsky.social: gemene-st.dhi-roma.it/

▶️ NEW VIDEOS: youtube.com/@archesp... 🔍 Searching Across Arches Instances (presented by Ash Smith, searching data from projects supported by 🌬️) 💻 Arches Data Import using SQL (presented by Junaid Abdul Jabbar, MAHSA Project)

✨ Arches Lingo v1.0.0 has been released! Developed by the Getty Conservation Institute with input from Historic England, Lingo gives cultural heritage organizations a dedicated tool for creating, managing, and publishing shared vocabularies. #ArchesLingo #VocabularyManagement

Funded by Arcadia and hosted by the University of Cambridge, @maeasamproject.bsky.social builds detailed inventories of endangered archaeological sites across 11 African countries using their Arches-powered database. Here’s a look at how they do it:

MAEASaM@maeasamproject.bsky.social · 2mo ago

A step-by-step guide of #digitising the #UNESCO site of Gorée Island: 1. georeferencing a historical map onto satellite imagery, 2. delineating the property boundary and buffer zone, 3. digitizing the sub-sites, 4. linking to metadata, and saving the data. Explore tdb.maeasam.org for Gorée Island

📣The June #ArchesProject bulletin is here! This issue highlights the release of Lingo v1.0, recent resources such as our Modeling Demo site & translations hub, new implementations, upcoming events, community presentations, publications & more: bit.ly/archesbulleti...

This #MaintainerMonth we’re celebrating those who keep Arches running: the Arches Committer Team! Organized by GitHub and @opensource.org, May is a time to recognize the effort behind ensuring our collective open-source work is sustainable and collaborative.

▶️ Recording now available: watch an overview of the new PostgreSQL-based Arches Search extension by Cyrus Hiatt (Farallon Geographics). Explore through-relationship search, multi-geometry search, dashboards, saved searches & more!

Arches Search Extension (May 14, 2026)

In this presentation, Cyrus Hiatt (Farallon Geographics) provides an overview of the new Arches search extension (currently in early development) through current mock-ups and a live demonstration. Learn more about the Search extension and share your feedback on the Arches Community Forum: https://

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🎥 The Arches Videos webpage just got a refresh! Browse presentations, demos, webinars & community meetings in a newly searchable table or explore 4 curated playlists to get started. 🔗 www.archesproject.or...

Arches for HERs v1.1.0 now available, with new features, bug fixes & an upgrade to v7.6 LTS! The Arches for HERs application was purpose-built for UK Historic Environment Records data needs, developed in partnership with Historic England and the City of Lincoln: bit.ly/archesHERs

📑 Arches documentation is continuously being improved! Our latest update covers SQL-based ETL (extract, transform, load) workflows that provide administrators with a faster & flexible alternative to data migration from legacy databases into Arches: bit.ly/readthedocs-s...

📢 The Arches UK Interest Group will meet next on Thurs May 28, 12–1 PM GMT, ft.presentations by Arches implementers about their experiences importing data & searching across multiple databases. 🌐 Participate in this virtual community meeting:

Arches UK Interest Group Meeting - 28 May 2026 midday

The next meeting of the Arches UK Interest Group will take place online at midday (UK-time) on Thursday 28 May 2026. The speakers will include Ash Smith from Southampton University’s MarEA project, demonstrating new code he has written to search across multiple Arches instances, and Junaid Abdul Jabbar from the Cambridge University MAHSA project, talking on the SQL data import option for Arches. The meeting will run on Zoom at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83381798130?pwd=fgvb...

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📅 A reminder that registration is open for NAPC FORUM 2026 — early bird rates are available through May 8! forum.napcommissions.org

Arches Project@archesproject.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Join us this summer for the presentation “Arches: Inventories for Disaster Preparedness and Response” on July 26 at the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC) FORUM 2026 conference in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Register today: forum.napcommissions...

📅 Save the date! Join the Arches US Interest Group on Thurs, May 14, 12–1pm PDT for a presentation on the new Arches Search extension by Cyrus Hiatt (Farallon Geographics), followed by time for community discussion. Share your input to shape the future of Arches search!

▶️ Recording now available: Learn about current & future educational resources for data modeling in Arches discussed during the March 31 Modeling Interest Group meeting: youtu.be/gpUXfKieVbk Join a future meeting to ask your modeling questions!

Arches Modeling Interest Group Meeting (March 31, 2026)

Meeting of the Arches Modeling Interest Group on March 31, 2026, featuring a discussion on modeling information resources currently available and planned, such as the upcoming interactive demo site for modeling in Arches. A presentation on the semantic model documentation platform, Pletka, was also

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🌍 The MAEASaM team will deliver an Arches workshop at the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA) 2026 Conference in Mpumalanga, South Africa on 5 July 2026. Learn more: asapa2026.co.za/ #ASAPA2026

🌴 Who Is Using Arches? The City of West Hollywood has launched a new Arches implementation as part of its Historic Preservation website—improving public access to info on the City’s cultural & historic resources. 🔗 Learn more & explore the database: bit.ly/wehopreservation

Join us this summer for the presentation “Arches: Inventories for Disaster Preparedness and Response” on July 26 at the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC) FORUM 2026 conference in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Register today: forum.napcommissions...

▶️ Recording now available: watch a demo of various ways to utilize the Arches ArcGISPro integration, presented at a recent US Interest Group meeting by Adam Lodge and Peter Hansen of Farallon Geographics.

So Happy Together: Arches with ArcGIS Integration

As part of the March 12, 2026 Arches US Interest Group meeting, Adam Lodge and Peter Hansen (Farallon Geographics) gave a presentation entitled, "So Happy Together: Arches with ArcGIS Integration" to attendees, followed by a Q&A session. Learn more about the Arches US Interest Group and get email

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📢 Are you a technical professional in the Arches community, want to share or learn about in-progress work & meet fellow developers? Register for the 2026 Developer Meeting & Hackathon hosted by Knowledge Integration in Sheffield, June 8-12: arches-developer-mee...

The Getty Conservation Institute is #hiring a Head, Arches Initiative role: ◆ Engage global Arches stakeholders ◆ Oversee progressive software implementation ◆ Lead team initiatives Priority to applications before April 3. Contact Bridge Partners LLC for info: bit.ly/GCI-arches-leadership

Arches Project@archesproject.bsky.social · 5mo ago

📢 The Getty Conservation Institute is accepting applications for the Head, Arches Initiative role. This leadership position will direct the Heritage Data Management: Arches department at the GCI, as well as liaise with & work to support the interdisciplinary Arches open-source community.