This #MaintainerMonth we’re celebrating those who keep Arches running: the Arches Committer Team! Organized by GitHub and @opensource.org#MaintainerMonth May is a time to recognize the effort behind ensuring our collective open-source work is sustainable and collaborative.

▶️ Recording now available: watch an overview of the new PostgreSQL-based Arches Search extension by Cyrus Hiatt (Farallon Geographics). Explore through-relationship search, multi-geometry search, dashboards, saved searches & more!

🎥 The Arches Videos webpage just got a refresh! Browse presentations, demos, webinars & community meetings in a newly searchable table or explore 4 curated playlists to get started. 🔗 www.archesproject.or...

Arches for HERs v1.1.0 now available, with new features, bug fixes & an upgrade to v7.6 LTS! The Arches for HERs application was purpose-built for UK Historic Environment Records data needs, developed in partnership with Historic England and the City of Lincoln: bit.ly/archesHERs

📑 Arches documentation is continuously being improved! Our latest update covers SQL-based ETL (extract, transform, load) workflows that provide administrators with a faster & flexible alternative to data migration from legacy databases into Arches: bit.ly/readthedocs-s...

📢 The Arches UK Interest Group will meet next on Thurs May 28, 12–1 PM GMT, ft.presentations by Arches implementers about their experiences importing data & searching across multiple databases. 🌐 Participate in this virtual community meeting:

📅 A reminder that registration is open for NAPC FORUM 2026 — early bird rates are available through May 8! forum.napcommissions.org

📅 Save the date! Join the Arches US Interest Group on Thurs, May 14, 12–1pm PDT for a presentation on the new Arches Search extension by Cyrus Hiatt (Farallon Geographics), followed by time for community discussion. Share your input to shape the future of Arches search!

▶️ Recording now available: Learn about current & future educational resources for data modeling in Arches discussed during the March 31 Modeling Interest Group meeting: youtu.be/gpUXfKieVbk Join a future meeting to ask your modeling questions!

🌍 The MAEASaM team will deliver an Arches workshop at the Association of Southern African Professional Archaeologists (ASAPA) 2026 Conference in Mpumalanga, South Africa on 5 July 2026. Learn more: asapa2026.co.za/ #ASAPA2026

🌴 Who Is Using Arches? The City of West Hollywood has launched a new Arches implementation as part of its Historic Preservation website—improving public access to info on the City’s cultural & historic resources. 🔗 Learn more & explore the database: bit.ly/wehopreservation

Join us this summer for the presentation “Arches: Inventories for Disaster Preparedness and Response” on July 26 at the National Alliance of Preservation Commissions (NAPC) FORUM 2026 conference in Minneapolis, MN, USA. Register today: forum.napcommissions...

▶️ Recording now available: watch a demo of various ways to utilize the Arches ArcGISPro integration, presented at a recent US Interest Group meeting by Adam Lodge and Peter Hansen of Farallon Geographics.

📢 Are you a technical professional in the Arches community, want to share or learn about in-progress work & meet fellow developers? Register for the 2026 Developer Meeting & Hackathon hosted by Knowledge Integration in Sheffield, June 8-12: arches-developer-mee...

The Getty Conservation Institute is #hiring a Head, Arches Initiative role: ◆ Engage global Arches stakeholders ◆ Oversee progressive software implementation ◆ Lead team initiatives Priority to applications before April 3. Contact Bridge Partners LLC for info: bit.ly/GCI-arches-leadership

🌏Who is Using Arches? The MAHSA project is using Arches to identify and document archaeological heritage sites across India and Pakistan. Learn how the project provides open access to georeferenced historic Survey of India maps below:

▶️ Video recordings of the “Intro to Arches” workshop delivered at the #CAAUK2025 conference in Cambridge, UK on Dec 9 are now available! Get started with a beginner’s technical overview to setting up an Arches instance, presented by Jack Tomaney (University of Cambridge):

📢 Reminder! The Arches UK Interest Group will meet this Thurs, March 26, 12–1 PM GMT with presentations on debugging the Arches command-line interface and the Arches QGIS plugin. More details and Zoom link on the Arches Project Community Forum: bit.ly/uk-interest-g...

Arches Project will be exhibiting at #CAA2026 in Vienna from March 31–April 3! Visit our table to learn more about Arches and pick up project materials and swag.

🖥️ NEW RELEASE: Arches v8.1.0. Features in this release relate to flexible semantic model design, permission frameworks, bulk data editor capability & more. A full list of enhancements & bug fixes in v8.1.0 can be found on the Arches Community Forum:

In Nov 2025, the Getty Conservation Institute hosted Arches Governance Members from 13 international institutions—the first in‑person gathering since Arches Governance launched. Participants (including hybrid attendees) strengthened processes and agreed to shared goals for 2026 and beyond.

Take part in the Arches Modeling Interest Group meeting on March 31 at 8am PDT / 4pm BST for an overview and discussion of modeling training resources, including the upcoming Arches Designer interactive demo. More info:

📢 The Getty Conservation Institute is accepting applications for the Head, Arches Initiative role. This leadership position will direct the Heritage Data Management: Arches department at the GCI, as well as liaise with & work to support the interdisciplinary Arches open-source community.

🌟 Reminder! The Arches US Interest Group will meet tomorrow, Thurs, 12–1pm PDT, featuring a presentation on the various ways to use the Arches ArcGIS Pro integration by Adam Lodge & Peter Hansen of Farallon Geographics Learn more on our Community Forum:

📢 New on the Arches Project blog: 2025 Year in Review From new implementations and software releases to major community collaborations and the launch of Arches’ governance framework, 2025 was a tremendous year. 📄 Read the full recap: bit.ly/arches-2025

🖥️ NEW PATCH RELEASE: Arches v8.0.9 is now available, including a number of bug fixes as well as an important security fix. Further information is available on the Community Forum, GitHub, & Read the Docs: bit.ly/arches-v-8-0-9

📢 Save the date! The Arches UK Interest Group will meet on March 26, 12–1 PM GMT with presentations by Mahmoud Abdelrazek (UCL) on debugging the Arches command-line interface and Samuel Scandrett (Knowledge Integration) on the Arches QGIS plugin.

Arches-related #job: the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW) is seeking a fixed-term Data Assistant to carry out a range of data enhancement tasks on the National Monuments Record, for which Arches is one of the underlying platforms.

🗺️ Knowledge Integration has released an official plugin that streamlines the interaction between Arches & QGIS, allowing the direct creation & editing of Arches resources using geospatial data in QGIS, among other features: bit.ly/arches-qgis-v...

Save the date! The Arches US Interest Group will meet Thurs, March 12, 1–2pm PST, featuring a presentation on the Arches ArcGIS Pro integration by Adam Lodge and Peter Hansen of Farallon Geographics.

▶️ January UK Interest Group meeting recording now online! The latest community meeting featured a presentation by Phil Carlisle (Historic England) on Arches Lingo, as well as an update on Arches Governance.

📢 CALL FOR PROPOSALS: the 2026 in-person Developer Meeting will be hosted by Arches service provider Knowledge Integration in Sheffield, UK this June. Interested Arches developers are encouraged to submit proposals here: bit.ly/DevMtg_2026_CFP

🌍 Who Is Using Arches? The MAEASaM project is documenting endangered African archaeological sites using existing records & open-access satellite imagery. 🔗 Explore the online demo, presenting over 900 site records in an accessible & structured way: maeasam.org/database/

Looking for Arches resource model examples? The Arches Resource Model Library provides access to models for Arches for HERs, Arches for Science, and OGEE Arches—with links to code repositories and documentation: bit.ly/arches-resour...

Reminder! The Arches UK Interest Group will meet tomorrow Thurs, Jan 29, 1-2 PM GMT with a presentation by Phil Carlisle (Historic England) on Arches Lingo. Meeting details on the Arches Project Forum: bit.ly/uk-interest-g...

🏢 Who Is Using Arches? The Arches-powered database SizaATLAS supports the project “SizaAtlas. Filling the Gaps for World Heritage,” documenting the legacy of Portuguese architect Álvaro Siza. 🔗 sizaatlas.iscte-iul....

Next week! The Arches UK Interest Group will meet on Thurs, Jan 29, 1-2 PM GMT with a presentation by Phil Carlisle (Historic England) on Arches Lingo, an upcoming application for creating, managing, & sharing authority data. Meeting details here: www.archesproject.or...

▶️ Now available: Learn about updates to the Arches-powered HistoricPlacesLA database, including the addition of fire damage assessment data from the 2025 Palisades Fire, presented by Sara Delgadillo (LA City Planning) for the Arches US Interest Group.

🖥️ NEW PATCH RELEASE: Arches v8.0.8 is now available, including a number of bug fixes as well as an important security fix. Further information is available on the Community Forum, GitHub, & Read the Docs: bit.ly/arches-v-8-0-8

▶️ Now available: Learn about the transition from the Reference Data Manager to the new and improved Arches Controlled Lists Manager in Arches v8 by watching the December 16 Arches Modeling Interest Group meeting recording:

Arches-related #job: MAHSA is seeking two fixed term research roles to assist in identifying and documenting endangered archaeological heritage sites across South Asia using the Arches-powered MAHSA database. Apply by January 16!

Reminder! This free webinar on the Arches-powered Marine Historic Environment Record Service will take place next week. We hope to see you there!

📢 Reminder! The Arches US Interest Group will meet on Thurs, Jan 8, 12-1pm PST. Join for a presentation by Sara Delgadillo (LA City Planning) on updates to the Arches-powered HistoricPlacesLA database, including newly added fire damage assessment data from the 2025 SoCal fires.

The GCI Arches Project team will be away for the holidays from December 25 to January 1. Our community forum remains open for questions and discussion: community.archesproj... ✨ Happy New Year from all of us! ✨

On January 20, 16:00 GMT/8:00 PST, join a webinar presented by Historic England exploring their new Arches-powered Marine Heritage Environment Record application & explaining their journey to develop a new digital solution for managing England’s marine heritage data.

🗓️ Save the date! The Arches US Interest Group (formerly known as the US User Group) will meet Thursday, January 8, 12-1pm PST, featuring a presentation by Sara Delgadillo (LA City Planning) on updates to the Arches-powered HistoricPlacesLA database.

Arches-related #job: the @nhm-london.bsky.social is seeking a Data Integration Specialist to lead the integration and analysis of data contributions from the UK’s Natural Science Collections community to the @hsds-update.bsky.social (HSDS).

Now available: Video recording from the Nov 27 Arches UK Interest Group meeting. Learn about Arches software developments related to the recent v8 release, as well as Historic England’s new Arches-powered Marine Historic Environment Record database:

📣 Introducing the new Arches Lingo webpage! Learn about this new Arches application (currently in development) and how it will support the creation, management, and sharing of authority data. 🔗 www.archesproject.or...

ArchDaily featured Arches as an example of an open-source digital platform that helps democratize heritage conservation. bit.ly/ArchDaily_OST... #opensource