Related Materials
Conservation Perspectives, The GCI Newsletter
ARCADE Launched for City of Lincoln, UK (Fall 2018)
New Agreements for Arches (Spring 2017)
Historic Places LA (Spring 2015)
Arches Selected for Google's Summer of Code (Spring 2014)
Changing the Heritage Inventory Paradigm: The Arches Open Source System (Fall 2013)
Heritage Inventories Issue (Fall 2013)
Articles and Papers
Kieron Manning and Annabel Lee Enriquez, "Using modern technology to protect and plan for heritage places," PBC Today, August 17, 2018.
Annabel Lee Enriquez, David Myers and Alison Dalgity, "The Arches Heritage Inventory and Management System for the Protection of Cultural Resources," Forum Journal, National Trust for Historic Preservation, vol. 32, no. 1, 2018: 30-38.
Myers, David, and Mario Santana Quintero, eds. 2016. Cultural heritage inventory systems for posterity and conservation. Special issue, Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 6 (2).
Myers, David, Alison Dalgity and Ioannis Avramides. 2016. The Arches heritage inventory and management system: A platform for the heritage field. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 6 (2): 213-24.
Myers, David. 2016. Heritage inventories: Promoting effectiveness as a vital tool for sustainable heritage management. Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development 6 (2): 102-12.
Myers, David. "Finding efficiencies and pooling resources to improve federal, state, tribal, and local heritage inventory systems." With a World of Heritage So Rich: Lessons from Across the Globe for U.S. Historic Preservation in its Second 50 years, Washington, DC: US/ICOMOS; U.S. Advisory Council on Historic Preservation, 2016.
Myers, Davd, Alison Dalgity, and Yiannis Avramides, "Arches: A Free Software Platform Purpose-Built for Cultural Resource Inventories." The Alliance Review, National Alliance of Preservation Commissions, Summer 2016: 22-27.
Carlisle, P. K., I. Avramides, A. Dalgity, and D. Myers. 2014."The Arches Heritage Inventory and Management System: a standards-based approach to the management of cultural heritage information." Paper presented at the CIDOC (International Committee for Documentation of the International Council of Museums) Conference: Access and Understanding - Networking in the Digital Era, Dresden, Germany, 6-11 September 2014.
Myers, David, Alison Dalgity, Ioannis Avramides and Dennis Wuthrich. "Arches: An Open Source GIS for the Inventory and Management of Immovable Cultural Heritage." In Progress in Cultural Heritage Preservation: 4th International Conference. EuroMed Conference 2012, Lemessos, Cyprus, October 29- November 3, 2012, Proceedings: 817-24. (2012)
Press Releases
Getty Conservation Institute and City of Lincoln in England Announce Launch of Innovative Heritage Management System, May 17, 2018
Getty Conservation Institute, Historic England, and the City of Lincoln, England Announce Plans to Use Advanced Software to Help Manage England's Cultural Heritage Places, November 15, 2016
Getty Conservation Institute and American Schools of Oriental Research Announce Collaborative Agreement to Advance Cultural Heritage Protection in the Middle East, April 15, 2016
Getty Conservation Institute and World Monuments Fund Launch Latest Version of Arches Heritage Inventory and Management System, May 5, 2015
Getty Conservation Institute and City of Los Angeles Launch HistoricPlacesLA, the First Comprehensive System Identifying Los Angeles' Cultural Resources, February 23, 2015
Getty Conservation Institute and World Monuments Fund Release Arches Software To Help Safeguard Cultural Heritage Sites Worldwide, December 4, 2013
Articles in the Getty Magazine
ARCADE Launched for City of Lincoln, UK (Fall 2018)
Arches: Building an Open-Source Community to Protect Heritage around the Globe (Summer 2018)
Arches: Protecting the World's Irreplaceable Cultural Sites (Summer 2016)
A Sense of Place in the City of Angels (Spring 2015)
News Media
Stephen Cousins, "Arches underpins historic context," RIBA Journal, November 28, 2016.
Mike O'Sullivan, "Online Archive Documents Destruction of Ancient Sites," voanews.com, July 29, 2016.
Nate Berg, "A New Database Aims to Keep Los Angeles from Forgetting Itself," citlylab.com,
July 3, 2014
Catherine Wagley, "Today's Monuments Men Are on the Internet," laweekly.com, February 7, 2014
Jennifer Zaino, "The Arches Project Puts a Semantic and Geo-Spatial Spin on Cultural Heritage," semanticweb.com, April 4, 2013
Adena Schutzberg, "The Arches Project: Turning Open Source GIS into a Heritage Inventory and Management System," Directions Magazine, February 25, 2013
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