Arches Timeline (OLD)

2012
Jun 2012

Getty Conservation Institute & World Monuments Fund hold first Arches community meeting in Los Angeles

Getty Conservation Institute & World Monuments Fund hold first Arches community meeting in Los Angeles

Participants, including English Heritage, Flanders Heritage Agency, Farallon Geographics, & Open Tech Strategies, provide input on advancing Arches as an open source project.

2013
Jan 2013

Website launched, community forum made public, & source code released publicly

Arches is established online in the form of a website, forum, & accessible repository.

Jun 2013

Arches project shares early development approach and receives feedback

Arches project shares early development approach and receives feedback

Two days of workshops in Hertfordshire, U.K. provide necessary feedback from institutions around Europe on an early Arches development approach.

Dec 2013

Arches Version 1 released

Arches Version 1 released

The first version of Arches follows a standards-based approach, including incorporation of the Core Data Standard for Archaeological and Architectural Heritage & CIDOC-CRM.

2014
Feb 2014

Arches accepted into Google Summer of Code

In this open-source software coding program, students were given the opportunity to contribute code for Arches (thanks to support from Google).

Mar 2014

Arches Version 2 released

New features in this version include: updates to Arches package management & streamlined database schema.

2015
Feb 2015

City of Los Angeles launches HistoricPlacesLA

City of Los Angeles launches HistoricPlacesLA

Strategic partnership between GCI and City of Los Angeles serves as vehicle for development of new features in Arches v3.

Apr 2015

Arches Version 3 released

New features in this version include: a new Reference Data Manager, graph view of related resources, improved installation process, node level security & numerous other new features & updates.

Aug 2015
Sep 2015
Oct 2015
2016
Jan 2016

Work on Arches for Science platform begins

Work on Arches for Science platform begins

Informed by a baseline study funded by the Seaver Institute, this system extends the Arches platform to manage and visualize science data and includes tools to help organize lab tasks for professionals involved in heritage science.

May 2016
Jul 2016
Aug 2016

Last updated:  January 2023