Hi all, The next Arches Modeling Interest Group meeting is scheduled online for Tuesday, September 29, 2026 at 8am US Pacific Time / 11am US Eastern Time / 4pm BST. The agenda for the one-hour meeting is as follows: Introductions and announcements Presentation and discussion exploring the modeling of controlled vocabularies in Arches Lingo, courtesy of George Bruseker of Takin.Solutions Modeling clinic: If you have a modeling problem that you want discussed (and maybe solved!) in a group sett...

Our next Arches US Interest Group meeting will be on Thursday, 2026-09-10T19:00:00Z (UTC)→2026-09-10T20:00:00Z (UTC) and feature a continued open share of ETL and Bulk Data Manager Experiences (Data Migration Into Arches: Community Stories) by various members and an update on changes to the Arches Community Forum by @ninayoung with the GCI. For the open share part 2, @zeldatr with the San Francisco Planning Department is lined up to share about Arches for SF Cultural Heritage. As with last time...

We are currently developing the National Marine Heritage Record, a dynamic dataset for everyone to search for records on marine heritage.

Documenting cultural heritage (CH) resources such as physical objects and archaeological sites, even with modern technologies, remains a challenge. The

The Arches team is happy to announce the release of two versions of Arches Modular Reports: version 1.0 and version 2.0. Version 1.0 supports Arches 7.6.x Version 2.0 supports Arches 8.0.0 and above Modular Reports is a new way to manage and view resource instances, giving much more flexibility in how reports are presented to users. It also includes a built-in editor, accessible to users with editing privileges, so data can be updated directly from the report view. Development was driven by ...

Arches community members shared their experiences with data migration into their Arches project databases during the Arches US Interest Group virtual meeting on July 9, 2026. Presentations: 00:00:00 | Custom ETL Modules in the Heritage Monitoring Scouts implementation of Arches (Adam Cox, Legion G

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

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://

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...

NAPC’s FORUM is the only conference of its kind – focused specifically on the concerns and educational needs of preservation commissions, their staff, and surrounding communities. This interactive con...

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

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

Delivered by Jack Tomaney, University of Cambridge -- Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia (MAHSA) project. Presented during the "Intro to Arches" workshop at the CAA-UK 2025 conference in Cambridge, UK on December 9, 2025. Learn more about CAA-UK 2025: https://uk.caa-international.org/ca

The Arches team is happy to announce the 8.1.0 release. This release provides many new features, important bug fixes, security enhancements, and performance improvements. You can find the full list of changes and instructions to upgrade your project(s) in the version release notes Performance improvements Fix performance of tile cardinality check against large datasets #12586 Optimize IIIF thumbnail loading with size parameters #12529 Make UserProfile.{viewable|editable|deletable}_nodegroup...

The next Arches Modeling Interest Group meeting is scheduled for March 31, 2026 at 8am US Pacific Time / 11am US Eastern Time / 4pm BST. The agenda is as follows: Introductions and announcements Overview and discussion of current and future educational resources for data modeling in Arches, including the upcoming interactive demo site for using the Arches Designer. Modeling clinic: If you have a modeling problem that you want discussed (and maybe solved!) in a group setting, submit it in advan...