Summary and Setup
This is a new lesson built with The Carpentries Workbench.
Arches is a database that can store and manage a wide assortment of datasets. Looking up and updating items stored in the database is easy as it supports keyword, type and geospatial searches. Arches also stores relational data to allow easy access to items related to each other. (i.e. All publications of a certain academic, or all persons related to a historical event.)
Arches allows for extensive customisability using a graphical database, so just about any data structure can be stored in the database. It comes with an inbuilt map search with map box, which we will be exploring in the next episode. As such, Arches is highly flexible and can be used to store and curate a wide variety of information. We can use it to manage anything collections of librarys and museums, to individual items of interest.
Arches also implements a powerful search engine for resources in its database, allowing for customisability in search filters as well as the option to expose/hide information of a resource in a search and searching for resources based on their relation to other resources.
In this lesson, we will cover the following: - Searching for resources. - Understanding the Arches Database. - Adding and modifying resources. - Creating connections between resources. - Utilising Bulk Imports
We will use the Arches for HER, Arches for Sciences as well as a fresh installation of Arches provided by the instructors for this lesson.
Data Sets
Download the data zip file and unzip it to your Desktop
Software Setup
Details
Setup for different systems can be presented in dropdown menus via a
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you can give a general overview of the software used in this lesson here
and fill out the individual operating systems (and potentially add more,
e.g. online setup) in the solutions blocks.
Use PuTTY
Use Terminal.app
Use Terminal