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Liliana D. Cazacu

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Jan 8, 2014, 4:43:01 AM1/8/14
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Hello everybody and I hope you all have a great start in the new year!

I am an architect working to preserve the Transylvanian fortified churches (there are around 180 churches and ensembles) and a PhD student who's researching the annex buildings of those monuments. I was just looking for a resource to help me organize my work and Arches seemed to be the perfect match, therefore I just started testing it.

I work in Romania and if I look now on the window I can barely see the Main Square of Sibiu/Hermannstadt (2007 European Cultural Capital), part of the Historic Medieval Town, which is a protected area. Fog is to be blamed! Although, seems to be an appropriate atmosphere to inspire writers as Bram Stoker. Therefore I won't look on the window any more, but in my own office, which is located in the Bishop's palace built in 1802.

It's great meeting you all. Good luck with your work and thank you for the Arches project and this forum.

Best Regards,

Liliana

Am Mittwoch, 13. März 2013 12:29:01 UTC+2 schrieb Edmund Lee:
Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the Arches Discussion Forum recently.

This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has just recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met before. How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if we were meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to this thread and share with the group some or all of the following:
  • what is your interest in Arches?
  • where in the world are you working?
and, just to make it a bit more fun,
  • what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your view?

I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better!


Ed

Tudor Cristina

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Jan 12, 2014, 4:50:21 AM1/12/14
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Hello everyone!

I'm student and I'm working with Arches on my licentiate's degree.

Brian Crane

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Feb 6, 2014, 10:39:15 AM2/6/14
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Hi,

I am an archaeologist working for an environmental engineering firm, and I have been working on a variety of cultural resources information management projects over the last nearly 15 years.

Out my window I see a narrow stretch of woods along the railway line from Washington DC to Manassas, Va. No visible heritage from my window, but occasionally foxes, groundhogs and deer.

Brian

lmed...@mtu.edu

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Feb 8, 2014, 6:46:18 PM2/8/14
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Hello,

It´s great to have this forum, so thank you so much for the project, its members, and all the research developed.

I´m an archaeologist, originaly from Portugal, currently doing PhD at the Industrial Heritage and Archaeology program, at Michigan Technological University.
We are working on the development of a comprehensive database of industrial heritage resources in the US, so I´m trying to figure out if Arches would be the best model for such a database.

Here from our offices in Houghton, we can see snow, more snow, and across the Portage Canal lots of industrial heritage and some ski trails!

Yours,

Leonor

Indradhanush Gupta

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Feb 24, 2014, 3:20:04 PM2/24/14
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Hello all!

My name is Indradhanush Gupta and I am in the final year of my B.Tech in Information Technology. I am interested in contributing to Arches in this year's GSoC.

Cheers!
--
Indradhanush Gupta

Karl Fogel

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Indradhanush Gupta <indradhan...@gmail.com> writes:
>My name is Indradhanush Gupta and I am in the final year of my B.Tech
>in Information Technology. I am interested in contributing to Arches
>in this year's GSoC.

Hi, and welcome! Have you looked at http://archesproject.org/ideas to
see what improvements might interest you? (Or feel free to propose new
ideas here, ask questions, etc.)

Best,
­Karl

Zeyu Chen

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Feb 24, 2014, 7:01:16 PM2/24/14
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Hello all,

I am a CS student from National University of Singapore, I am interested in Arches gsoc Mobile App project.

I have some experience on iOS development and have an app on App Store.

I want to know if Arches provides any sort of API for mobile app to get heritage data?

Currently I am an exchange student at University of Waterloo, Canada. Looking out from my window, I just see snow everywhere.


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Niharika Kohli

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Feb 25, 2014, 2:57:00 AM2/25/14
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Hello everyone. 

I am Niharika, a third year engineering undergrad.. I am interested in working on the "Admin UI Improvements" projected floated for GSoC this year by Arches. The mentor listed on the page is Rob Gaston. What's the most convenient/preferred way for communication here? I'm comfortable with IRC, GTalk etc.

Thank you.
Niharika.
 

Aditya Chandran

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Feb 25, 2014, 3:08:10 AM2/25/14
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Hi,

My name is Aditya Chandran . I am doing my 2nd year Btech in Computer Science and Engineering. I am really interested in contributing to Arches through gsoc and further as well.

I am proficient in Django-python and have moderate skills in CSS, html , javascript as I have worked on development of the website www.meetashrink.com with specialization in the backend and database.

I was especially interested in working on projects number 4 and 13. Though I am not very familiar with geospatial data representations, I am willing to learn it as well as I can.

I am from Bangalore, India and I have always been interested in heritage around the world especially in my own country. I am currently residing in Hyderabad, India and there is an amazing fort called Golconda situated about 12 kms from my University which is worth a visit for anyone who comes here.

Thank You

krutarth patel

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Feb 25, 2014, 4:22:22 AM2/25/14
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Hi all,

I am Krutarth Patel, a 4th (final) year undergraduate pursuing my B. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from International Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad. I love programming and learning about different cultures and traditions. I would be glad to use my coding skills to contribute to the mankind. I am proficient in Python, HTML, CSS and Python. This is what I liked about Arches the most. I have a keen interest in the projects "Import/Export Improvements" and "Application Logging". I have never worked with archaeological data but are quick at adapting to new things.

Lee, Edmund

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Hello Aditya, Niharika and Krutarth, and let me be the first to welcome to the Arches project group!

 

You will find here an amazing mix of skill sets – technical specialists such as yourselves, and archaeologists and heritage people who have some enormously interesting datasets to work with from around the world. Do feel free to ask questions about the Arches project here on this list. I believe project participants in the USA are setting up IRC chat functions as well so there will be lots of ways for us to support you.

 

There’s plenty more information about the types of information archaeologists work with on the project website at http://archesproject.org/heritage-inventories/  and the sorts of heritage inventories the Arches software can support at  http://archesproject.org/materials/

 

With all good wishes

 

Ed

 

English Heritage

United Kingdom

 

 


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Lee, Edmund

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…and welcome to the group  Zeyu as well!

 

Other group members will be better able to answer your question about APIs.

 

Hope the weather warms up soon for you. Here in England we just hope for the rain to stop.

 

All good wishes

 

Ed

 

 

English Heritage

U.K.

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Karan Dhamele

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Hi Everyone,

  Myself, Karan Dhamele, presently in my sixth semester, pursuing computer science at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad. I have regularly participated in competitive programming events and some appathons. I like to code, learn problem-solving techniques and designing applications. I have previous experience in algorithms, android development, etc and particularly I would like to contribute this summer by developing Arches mobile app, as I have relevant experience and I would also like to contribute on other projects(related to frontend/UI development) given the opportunity.

Technologies known: Python, Java, C++/C, HTML, CSS, jquery, AJAX, web2py.
My Interest in Arches: Social Science with a blend of Computer Science... Interesting :) .
Working Location and Heritages: Hyderabad, India. Lots of old palaces, mosques, and towers among which Char Minar is one(famous but Not in my view ).
Heritages in Hyderabad

Thanks,
Karan Dhamele,
UG3, CSE,
IIIT-H.

Rob Gaston

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Feb 25, 2014, 2:47:10 PM2/25/14
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Hi Niharika,

Feel free to email me directly at this address (from Google Groups you can find it by clicking on my name); I'm also in the IRC channel #arches on freenode.net.

Cheers,
- Rob Gaston

Karl Fogel

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Rob Gaston <rga...@fargeo.com> writes:
>Feel free to email me directly at this address (from Google Groups you
>can find it by clicking on my name); I'm also in the IRC channel
>#arches on freenode.net.

Let me please push to keep such conversations here on the Google Group.
Traffic is unlikely to get too high, and if it does, then it's just time
to split into a dev group and a users group (IOw the current group stays
as the users group, and we create another forum for technical
development conversations).

The main thing is not to have GSoC or any other dev conversations ever
get spun off into anyone's private inbox. "If it didn't happen in one
of the project forums, it didn't happen."

Best,
-K

Sindhu Kiranmai Ernala

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Hello all :)
This is Sindhu Kiranmai. I am a 3rd year undergrad student at International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India pursuing Btech in Computer Science + MS by Research in Exact Humanities. My interests include Digital Humanities and Ontological Engineering. I worked on a project very similar to Arches, namely History visualizer. The idea of the project was to have a web based visualizing tool, which crowd sources historical event related data from the user community. The tool provides three types of visualizations: through space, through time and both space time. Arches seemed a very similar project with many new interesting aspects.
As I look outside my window, there is the magnificent Golconda fort. Yes, I am from the city of pearls, Hyderabad, India. There are many heritage sites around from the Nizam rule.

Good to keep in touch with this great project.

May, Keith

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Hi Sindhu,

Good to hear from you.
The History Visualizer project you mention sounds interesting. 
Do you have any links to anything online that you can share with the Group?

Thanks
Keith

Information Strategy Advisor
Capacity Building Team
Strategic Planning & Management Division
Heritage Protection Department
English Heritage
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Dominic Sharrock

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Hi all,

I'm Dominic, a first year undergrad CS student at York, UK. I'm a mature student and also have a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology.
    • what is your interest in Arches?
      • This seems to be a real step towards bringing Archaeology and Cultural Resource Management into the information age - it's the sort of thing I wished I could have worked on when I studied and worked in Archaeology, and look forward to contributing now that I've found it. I'm hoping to join in through the Google Summer of Code, but even if that doesn't happen I'll hopefully contribute somewhat anyway when I can.
    • where in the world are you working?
      • York, UK.
    • what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your view?
      • Not directly out of my window, but if I step out to the street I can see the city walls and Walmgate Bar, and the Minster is only a few minutes walk away.
    I have experience in Python, Java, and web development, and some knowledge of SQL, C, and Android development.

    I'm on IRC as Beornwulf, and look forward to getting to know people and working with you all.

    Dominic

    Lee, Edmund

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    Hi Dominic, welcome to the group!

     

    Do read through the messages on the Google Group page http://archesproject.org/forum/ , and have a look at the Ideas page for the project http://archesproject.org/ideas/ . There is also a well established bug tracker in the BitBucket page for the project, and a Road Map for the project overall linked to from http://archesproject.org/development/ .

     

    York is an amazing city – I’m lucky enough to visit quite often as English Heritage has an office there.

     

    All good wishes,

     

    Ed

     

     

     

     

     

     

    From: arches...@googlegroups.com [mailto:arches...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Dominic Sharrock
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    Subject: [Arches] Re: Signing in

     

    Hi all,

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    Prashant Kiran

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    Hi everyone,
    I am Prashant , from BITS Pilani , India , currently in my 3rd year of study of Engineering .I know following languages and have prior experience of working in them 
    C/C++,Java,Python 
    PHP,HTML,CSS,C#(kinect module),
    Javascript,MySQL,
    jQuery,Flotr.js,Angular.js ,Sencha Touch(A OpenSource library for UI development for mobile devices).

    My interest in arches is about its GSOC Ideas particularly the idea about User Settings that allows the user to Customise his Arches according to him.

    Currently I am working in Rajasthan,India and to be true I don't see anything outside my window but yes I have been to many Heritage SItes in India.
    warm regards
    Prashant

    On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:59:01 PM UTC+5:30, Edmund Lee wrote:
    Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the Arches Discussion Forum recently.

    This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has just recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met before. How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if we were meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to this thread and share with the group some or all of the following:
    • what is your interest in Arches?
    • where in the world are you working?
    and, just to make it a bit more fun,
    • what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your view?

    I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better!


    Ed

    Shubham Chaurasia

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    Feb 27, 2014, 12:50:24 AM2/27/14
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    Hello Sir,
    Yesterday I started a conversation but did not introduced myself on this particular thread.

    I am a final year Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering student.I just visited ARCHES and found it to be a nice concept.I liked the idea of Improving Representation of Spatial-Temporal Relationships in particular. I got the sense of it by the example of 'Iron Age' given with the topic.
    I know JavaScript and learned python recently. I am comfortable with both of them.
    I have a question regarding the project, whether in this project we have to maintain database also or only we have to focus on the representation of those data across the map?
    And should I learn postGIS database for this project?

    Kindly guide me through this and tell me about more technologies/Algorithms that I have to study to accomplish this project.

    Thanks,
    Shubham Chaurasia

    Lee, Edmund

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    Feb 27, 2014, 5:31:55 AM2/27/14
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    Hello Prashant, and welcome to Arches! Do please continue to use the group to find out more about the project,  to ask questions, and to contact other project members. Theres plenty more on the project website at http://archesproject.org/

     

    I’m sorry to hear that the view from your window isn’t so good. I used to be able to see a fine medieval church, but now there are houses being built in the way…

     

    Ed

     

    From: arches...@googlegroups.com [mailto:arches...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Prashant Kiran
    Sent: 26 February 2014 19:12
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    Subject: [Arches] Re: Signing in

     

    Hi everyone,

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    Harsh Sharma

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    Hello everyone,

    I am Harsh and I am a 3rd year undergraduate student from India. I have a experience working in Python and C. Currently I am learning Java. I also have some knowledge of PHP.

    Interest in Arches - I read about the project on the project website and found it interesting. I think that the work being done by the team is really commendable. Moreover keeping it open source is just a brilliant idea. I would love to contribute to make the project better.

    Location - I am currently working from my hostel room in a small town called Pilani located in the state of Rajasthan in India.

    Outside my window - There is nothing much to see outside my window apart from the front lawn of my hostel. But, in the past I have seen many heritage sites all over the country.

    Lee, Edmund

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    Welcome Harsh! And thank you for signing in on the Arches project forum. Do have a look at the  rest of the posts on this Group, online at https://groups.google.com/d/forum/archesproject?hl=en  and ask any questions you may have.

     

    All good wishes

     

    Ed

     

    From: arches...@googlegroups.com [mailto:arches...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Harsh Sharma
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    Hello everyone,

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    Karl Fogel

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    Feb 27, 2014, 12:53:00 PM2/27/14
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    Shubham Chaurasia <shubh.c...@gmail.com> writes:
    >Yesterday I started a conversation but did not introduced myself on
    >this particular thread.
    >
    >I am a final year Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering student.I
    >just visited ARCHES and found it to be a nice concept.I liked the idea
    >of Improving Representation of Spatial-Temporal Relationships in
    >particular. I got the sense of it by the example of 'Iron Age' given
    >with the topic.
    >I know JavaScript and learned python recently. I am comfortable with
    >both of them.
    >I have a question regarding the project, whether in this project we
    >have to maintain database also or only we have to focus on the
    >representation of those data across the map?
    >And should I learn postGIS database for this project?
    >
    >Kindly guide me through this and tell me about more
    >technologies/Algorithms that I have to study to accomplish this
    >project.

    Welcome, Shubham Chaurasia. You got that particular idea from
    http://archesproject.org/ideas, right?

    I'm not sure what you mean when you ask whether you will have to
    "maintain" the database. The Arches Project can probably supply sample
    data to work with. You might have to learn some of the database schema
    or other internals, though (I'm not sure -- I'm not an Arches developer
    myself, but I realized I didn't understand your question so I thought
    I'd ask you to clarify).

    Best,
    -Karl

    utsav kumar

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    I get really excited when i get to know organizations that help in protecting our cultural heritage.It's a pity that the vast treasure of our monuments are destroyed just because it's inventory is not organized.I am a computer science engineering student from india .I chatted quite a lot with robert gatson yesterdayon irc  who guided me in building arches into my linux ubuntu 12.04 yesterday.This is a screenshot of my system with vagrant up command that setup up virtual vm into my system .. http://postimg.org/image/han8ufvqb/ .I am really eager to start contributing to arches and  make this dream of preserving our heritage come through . :)

    And well,india has a rich history of culture.Indian civilization is a very ancient one and some of the special things like yoga originated from here and we have the taj mahal ..yayy :)

    Shubham Chaurasia

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    Feb 28, 2014, 3:08:58 AM2/28/14
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    Hello Sir,

    I realized that "maintain" database was misleading term there. I'm sorry for that.
    Actually I wanted to ask that the project is titled Improving Representation of Spatial-Temporal Relationships .
    My question is, does the scope of this project only limited to the front-end representation of Spatial-Temporal relationship or we have to do back-end programming also, including the databases.

    Also guide me about more technologies that I need to learn.
    I've got it clearly what the problem definition says.

    Thanks,
    Shubham Chaurasia.


    Lee, Edmund

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    Feb 28, 2014, 5:08:30 AM2/28/14
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    Welcome Jayanth! It’s great to have so many new members signing in just now. Do please have a look around the Arches Project website http://archesproject.org/  to find out a bit more about the sort of heritage inventory that Arches is designed to support, and do ask any questions you may have by starting a new thread in this discussion group, or contributing to those in progress at http://archesproject.org/forum/

     

    And I’m sorry to hear the view from your window isn’t too great,

     

    Ed

     

    From: arches...@googlegroups.com [mailto:arches...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Jayanth Koushik
    Sent: 28 February 2014 06:42
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    Subject: [Arches] Re: Signing in

     

    Hello all!

    I am Jayanth Koushik. I am a final year Computer Science student from BITS Pilani, India. I found out about the Arches project through GSOC and I am really interested in the 'Import/Export Improvements' project listed on the 'Ideas' page. I do have experience with Python and JSON.

    Lots of heritage in India, but I can't see any of it from my window unfortunately...

    Jayanth




    On Wednesday, March 13, 2013 3:59:01 PM UTC+5:30, Edmund Lee wrote:

    Hello all, ... and welcome in particular to those who have joined the Arches Discussion Forum recently.

    This online group was initially set up for the project team, and has just recently been opened up as the public, so some of us haven't met before. How about we all share a bit of background, just like we would if we were meeting in the real world? If that sounds good to you, reply to this thread and share with the group some or all of the following:

    • what is your interest in Arches?
    • where in the world are you working?

    and, just to make it a bit more fun,

    • what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your view?

    I look forward to getting to know everyone a bit better!

     

    Ed

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    Lee, Edmund

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    Welcome to the Arches project forum Utsav!

     

    As well as computer and IT specialists on this group you will find many members such as myself who share your passion for the past, and work in heritage organisations aimed at doing what we can to ensure that the significance for all of us of heritage sites is maintained for future generations. Do feel free to ask questions about how heritage inventories work in practice, as well as the technical questions about Arches.

     

    And of course there’s a lot more than just the Taj Mahal out there… http://asi.nic.in/asi_monu_whs.asp (and that’s just the World Heritage Sites).

     

    Everyone… Do we have any specialists in the archaeology of India in the group?

     

    Ed

     

    From: arches...@googlegroups.com [mailto:arches...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of utsav kumar
    Sent: 28 February 2014 07:34
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    I get really excited when i get to know organizations that help in protecting our cultural heritage.It's a pity that the vast treasure of our monuments are destroyed just because it's inventory is not organized.I am a computer science engineering student from india .I chatted quite a lot with robert gatson yesterdayon irc  who guided me in building arches into my linux ubuntu 12.04 yesterday.This is a screenshot of my system with vagrant up command that setup up virtual vm into my system .. http://postimg.org/image/han8ufvqb/ .I am really eager to start contributing to arches and  make this dream of preserving our heritage come through . :)

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    utsav kumar

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    Feb 28, 2014, 5:35:57 PM2/28/14
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    Yes,sir actually i think i may know a good deal about the tradition and culture of India(i just wanted to keep my introduction short :D) and i can start in a small way towards contributing to inventories of  sites from India. My interest in heritage blossomed from my reading of Dan Brown novels and getting to understand the deep richness of any culture.

    As i find out more about arches i will be asking more question about how really the inventories work practically.One of the awesome things i feel is that we can learn so much about a site by examining it's ruins and then get to know more about the ancient culture of that place.

    If it's possible,please do share some references about how inventories really work!

    And robert gatson has guided me a lot in setting up arches on my ubuntu.

    And it's so nice to get to know someone who has a vast trove of knowledge on culture and history.

    David Myers

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    Feb 28, 2014, 7:34:02 PM2/28/14
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    Greetings Utsav
     
    Welcome to the Arches forum! One source that I would recommend to learn more about how heritage inventories work (as well as about the Arches project) is the fall 2013 issue of the Getty Conservation Institute newsletter, which is focused on the theme of heritage inventories. It's online at:
     
    Best regards,
     
    David Myers
    Arches Project Team

    Rahul Sharma

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    Mar 1, 2014, 3:37:16 AM3/1/14
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    Hello all,

    I'm Rahul, a third year undergrad CS student at IIIT Hyderabad,India.
      • what is your interest in Arches?
        • This seems to me like a good initiative towards helping students lean about our culture.There are lots of Historical/Archaeological monuments which represnts our culture and we need to preserver that.I think this initiative has the potential to be as much important to the monuments as the Google Art project is for the Arts.
        • I am hoping to join though GSoc to be a part of this wonderful project.
      • where in the world are you working?
        • Hyderabad,India
      • what can you see out of the window? Is there any heritage in your view?
        • Yeah, I see  Mecca Masjid. I have seen lots of heritage during my upbringing in Rajasthan such as Forts, Battle Fields etc.
      I have experience in Android Development, Java , Html and Mysql.

      So as a starting point i have set up Ares on my amazon aws instance and it works fine.
      In the meantime i will be exploring the software in detail.
      Looking forward to having a good time here.

      Rahul Anand

      edmund.lee

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      Mar 1, 2014, 4:52:50 AM3/1/14
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      Hello Rahul, and thanks for joining the Arches project group and for sharing this information about your interests and background. Certainly the inventories of haritage sites that can be developed using systems such as Arches are an essential part of looking after heritage sites all over the world.

      Mecca Masjid looks amazing!
      Ed

      All good wishes
      Ed
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      utsav kumar

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      Mar 1, 2014, 7:17:37 AM3/1/14
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      Thanks for sharing this newsletter with me.I will do my best to get back to you as soon as i finish  deploying arches on my desktop. :)




      On Saturday, 1 March 2014 06:04:02 UTC+5:30, David Myers wrote:
      Greetings Utsav
       
      Welcome to the Arches forum! One source that I would recommend to learn more about how heritage inventories work (as well as about the Arches project) is the fall 2013 issue of the Getty Conservation Institute newsletter, which is focused on the theme of heritage inventories. It's online at:
       
      Best regards,
       
      David Myers
      Arches Project Team

      Joshua Ng

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