Application of Open-Source Software in Community Heritage Resources Management
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Arches and Arches-HIP
- Heritage Resources: objects that are culturally significant, for example, temple, shrines, artifact, tombstones, buildings, and monuments.
- Heritage Resource Groups: gathering of individual heritage resources that are best regarded as a group such as region, landscapes, historic zones, and graveyards.
- Activity: resources that occur over a period of time, which include religious celebrations, investigations, excavations, and restoration.
- Historic Event: culturally significant occurrences including battles, protests, natural disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, and flooding.
- Actor: resources that are persons, groups of people, or organizations, e.g., architects, research teams, surveying firms, and association.
- Information Objects: objects that encode information such as a photo, documents, audio and video recordings, signs, drawings, and inscriptions.
2.2. Other Related Open-Source Tools
- A Django-based web server tier, which is developed using Python programming language.
- A Bootstrap-based user interface using JavaScript and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets).
- A PostgreSQL relational database, and PostGIS, which is the spatial database extender for PostgreSQL.
- An Elasticsearch search engine, which can provide high performance full-text querying.
2.3. Heritage Resource Data
3. Results
3.1. Heritage Resources Database
3.2. Arches Web Applications
- Maintaining resource data: to update descriptions, location, classifications, components, measurements, condition assessment, images and files, related resources, and external system references of the resource.
- Evaluating Resource: to update the designation and evaluation criteria for the resource.
- Managing Resource: to review the edit history of the resource or delete the resource.
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Funding
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Entity Type | Authority Document |
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CONDITION_TYPE.E55 | CONDITION_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
CULTURAL_PERIOD.E55 | CULTURAL_PERIOD_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
DISTURBANCE_TYPE.E55 | DISTURBANCE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
LANGUAGE.E55 | LANGUAGE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
MATERIAL.E57 | MATERIAL_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
MEASUREMENT_TYPE.E55 | MEASUREMENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
MODIFICATION_TYPE.E55 | MODIFICATION_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
NAME_TYPE.E55 | NAME_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
SETTING_TYPE.E55 | SETTING_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
STYLE.E55 | STYLE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
STATUS.E55 | STATUS_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
THREAT_TYPE.E55 | THREAT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv |
Conceptid | PrefLabel | AltLabels | Parent Conceptid | Concept Type | Provider |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
CONDITION | 1 | good | CONDITION_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | GCI |
CONDITION | 2 | fair | CONDITION_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | GCI |
CONDITION | 3 | poor | CONDITION_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | GCI |
CONDITION | 4 | very bad | CONDITION_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | GCI |
Conceptid | PrefLabel | AltLabels | Parent Conceptid | Concept Type | Provider |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
MEASUREMENT_TYPE | 1 | length | MEASUREMENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | EH |
MEASUREMENT_TYPE | 2 | depth | MEASUREMENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | EH |
MEASUREMENT_TYPE | 3 | breadth | MEASUREMENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | EH |
MEASUREMENT_TYPE | 4 | weight | MEASUREMENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | EH |
MEASUREMENT_TYPE | 5 | tonnage | MEASUREMENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | EH |
MEASUREMENT_TYPE | 6 | height | MEASUREMENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv | Index | EH |
Name of Software | Version | Purpose |
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Ubuntu Server | 14.04 LTS | The platform used for software installation and development. |
Apache | 2.4.7 | The web server software. |
Python | 2.7.6 | Used for developing data processing scripts. |
Django | 1.6.2 | A web development framework written in Python. |
Bootstrap | 3.3.5 | An open-source toolkit for developing responsive websites. |
Elasticsearch | 1.4.1 | Library for providing full-text searching. |
PostgreSQL | 9.3 | The relational database management system. |
PostGIS | 2.2.0 | Supports spatial database extension for PostgreSQL. |
GEOS | 3.4.2 | The most popular geospatial library that is used by PostGIS. |
pygal | 2.1.1 | A Python library for creating statistical charts in SVG format. |
Resource Type | Associated Elements |
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Historic Resource | Resource Summary, Descriptions, Location, Classifications, |
Components, Measurements, Condition Assessment, Images and Files, | |
Related Resources, External System References, Designation, Evaluation Criteria | |
Historic District | Resource Summary, Descriptions, Location, Classifications, |
Measurements, Condition Assessment, Evaluation Criteria, | |
Designation, Related Resources, and External System References | |
Activity | Resource Summary, Descriptions, Location, Actions, |
Related Resources, and External System References | |
Historic Event | Resource Summary, Descriptions, Location, Phase, |
Related Resources, and External System References | |
Person/Organization | Actor Summary, Descriptions, Location, Role, |
Related Resources, and External System References | |
Information Resource | Resource Summary, Creation and Publication, Coverage, |
Descriptions, File Upload, Related Resources, and External System References |
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Chicago/Turabian StyleJan, Jihn-Fa. 2018. "Application of Open-Source Software in Community Heritage Resources Management" ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 7, no. 11: 426. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi7110426