Arches HER for Jersey Heritage goes live

[David Osborne]

On behalf of the project team, I am delighted to announce the launch of the Historic Environment Record for Jersey Heritage. The culmination of a three-year development, the HER contains details of 5,137 historic buildings and archaeological sites, and 206 records of finds on the island of Jersey, together with information on related survey activities, archives and bibliographic data.

The project was managed by Dr Peter Chowne, in collaboration with Roger Hills and Georgia Robinson of Jersey Heritage, while I provided technical advice and implementation. On the subject of support, I’d like to record my thanks to all those at Farallon, particularly Alexei, Dennis and Cyrus and other forum users, particularly Adam Cox, who answered my many questions and helped us to get this service up and running. I couldn’t have done it without you!

Hosted in a virtual server on Amazon Web Services (AWS), running Ubuntu 16.04, the HER uses Arches version 4.4.2. It is accessible at the URL

https://her.jerseyheritage.org


David

[Chris Dolby]

Thanks very much for sharing, David - great to see some new insights on the island. Congrats to the team on getting things up and running.

Lovely photos in the slideshow on the homepage, too.

Chris Dolby

Project Manager

Historic England

[Carlisle, Philip]

Congrats David.

 

It looks great. Have you done much user testing? Would you like external feedback on the site?

 

Phil

 

Phil Carlisle

Knowledge Organization Specialist

Information Analysis

Policy and Evidence Group

Historic England

Direct Dial: +44 (0)1793 414824

 

Many Historic England staff are working remotely at the moment and we are doing what we can to maintain our level of response but please bear with us as this may be slower than usual.

 

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[Sara Delgadillo Cruz]

Hi David,

Congratulations on the launch of your v4 instance! 

We, in Los Angeles, are very close to launching our v4 instance and would like to connect with you. We're currently refinding a loose launch plan to request feedback from the conservation community and the other likely users of our instance. Did you form a launch plan for Jersey Heritage?

	Sara Delgadillo Cruz  Los Angeles City Planning Office of Historic Resources
	221 N. Figueroa St., Suite 1350 Los Angeles, CA 90012 T: (213) 847-3650

For information on SurveyLA and HistoricPlacesLA visit Planning4LA.org.

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[David Osborne]

Hi Sara

Our launch plan was small in scale, limited to getting feedback from staff within Jersey Heritage, which informed on usability issues. Roger Hills, who led the JH side of the project, organised that and collated the feedback from his colleagues. I was going to ask why you were not moving to v5 but in our project, we held back from migrating to the latest version, which appeared very late in our timescale and the work in moving from v4 to 5 would have delayed our launch and added to costs.

I must say that historicplacesla.org was one of our benchmarks when we were starting our Arches journey, so I'll be interested to see its new incarnation in its v4 guise! Good luck with your 'go live'.

Best wishes

David

[Sara Delgadillo Cruz]

Thanks David! I'm glad to hear HistoricPlacesLA was resourceful for Jersey Heritage and I'll be sure to reach out to Roger regarding your launch.

We were well underway with learning and building our v4 instance with added datasets when v5 was released. In order to make this greater volume of data available to our audience soon, we're aiming to launch a somewhat simple v4 instance of HistoricPlacesLA. Once our v4 is launched we expect feedback will help us minimally improve v4 as well as prepare for a migration to v5. The journey continues and we look forward to growing the capacity of our instance to support various preservation efforts in Los Angeles.

Cheers,

Sara

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[Alina Myklebust]

Hi David,

Wonderful news and thank you for sharing it here!  There is great satisfaction in learning about implementation launches after following the efforts over time.  The site looks fantastic and we are happy to share the official launch announcement via the Arches Project communication channels.  

Congrats to you and the entire team at Jersey Heritage!

Very best, 

Alina 

Arches Project