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Arches v7.6.21 has also been released, which provides a few important bug fixes. Visit the Community Forum for release notes: bit.ly/arches-v-7-6-21

🖥️ 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

Arches UK Interest Group Meeting - 26 March 2026 midday The next meeting of the Arches UK Interest Group will take place online at midday (UK-time) on Thursday 26 March 2026. The speakers will be Mahmoud Abdelrazek (University College London) on debugging Arches CLI and Samuel Scandrett (Knowledge Integration) on the recently released QGIS plugin for Arches. The meeting will run on Zoom at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83381798130?pwd=fgvbLU2aRm20LCjF1X2cxnf22VEpEr.1 Meeting ID: 833 8179 8130 Passcode: 186761

More details (including relevant Zoom information) on the Arches Project Community Forum: bit.ly/uk-interest-g...

Learn more about the newly released Arches QGIS plugin:
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📢 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.

Experience with Arches is desirable, as a primary responsibility will be integrating data from RCAHMW project databases and spreadsheets into Arches for HERs. The deadline to apply is March 16: bit.ly/Job_RCAHMW_Da...

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.

Roadmap and Releases | Arches Project The Arches Roadmap highlights current and upcoming releases, detailing ongoing and planned development of Arches features and capabilities. Information on past releases, with links to release notes, is also included.

🔗 Interested in working on a plugin or feature for the Arches community? Visit the Arches roadmap for a high-level overview of current and upcoming releases:

Arches UK Interest Group Meeting - 26 March 2026 midday The next meeting of the Arches UK Interest Group will take place online at midday (UK-time) on Thursday 26 March 2026. The speakers will be Mahmoud Abdelrazek (University College London) on debugging Arches CLI and Samuel Scandrett (Knowledge Integration) on the recently released QGIS plugin for Arches. The meeting will run on Zoom at the following link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83381798130?pwd=fgvbLU2aRm20LCjF1X2cxnf22VEpEr.1 Meeting ID: 833 8179 8130 Passcode: 186761

This new plugin represents a successful integration between 2 #OSS tools that can support cultural heritage work, made possible by extensive community collaboration.

🗓️ Attend the next Arches UK Interest Group meeting on March 26 to learn more:

🗺️ 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...

Arches US Interest Group Meeting on March 12, 2026 Our next Arches US Interest Group meeting will be on Thursday, 2026-03-12T19:00:00Z (UTC)→2026-03-12T20:00:00Z (UTC) and feature a presentation on Arches with ArcGIS integration by Adam Lodge and Peter Hansen of Farallon Geographics. Below is the agenda and Zoom information. We look forward to seeing you! Agenda Arches Question of the Day Welcome and Introductions Announcements and Updates Presentation: “So Happy Together: Arches with ArcGIS Integration” (Adam Lodge and Peter Hansen) Open Fo...

This integration allows Esri users to directly access and edit Arches data from their Esri desktop GIS software and vice versa.

Visit the Arches Project Community Forum for more details:

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.

Arches UK Interest Group | Arches Project The Arches UK Interest Group is an opportunity for implementers, those wanting to implement, and service providers in the United Kingdom to collaborate on Arches.

The Arches UK Interest Group meets at 12pm GMT on the last Thursday of every other month. Next meeting: March 26.

🔗 Sign-up for the group’s mailing list & suggest topics for discussion:

A recording of the Arches UK Interest Group meeting, held virtually on January 29, 2026 Chair: Stuart Cakebread, Greater London Historic Environment Record (GLHER); Greater London Archaeology Advisory Service (GLAAS); Historic England Secretary: Jana Lorencova, Information Scientist, Flax & Teal Lt Arches UK Interest Group Meeting (January 29, 2026)

▶️ 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.

Arches Developer Meeting 2026 - Sheffield, UK Hi all, As some might have read on the Arches December Bulletin, Knowledge Integration are delighted to be hosting the 2026 Arches developer meeting in Sheffield, UK (the “Steel City”)! The conference is welcome to all developers and individuals interested in the technical side of Arches, and will be held on the week commencing 8th June, with the final dates and venue still being worked out. Note that this will be an in-person event only (not hybrid), but we aim to record presentations where ...

Follow this Arches Forum thread for updates on dates, registration, travel & more:
bit.ly/DevMtg_2026_S...

Read about the 2025 meeting, which brought Arches developers together to discuss priorities, review work in-progress & further collaboration:
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📢 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:
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Funded by Arcadia & hosted by Cambridge Archaeology, the project supports heritage authorities facing threats like urbanization & climate change.

📰 Read how the project implemented #FAIR & CARE principles & managed controlled vocabs in Arches: bit.ly/maeasam-dec25

🌍 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/

Arches Modeling Interest Group | Arches Project Details about the Arches Modeling Interest Group and ways to participate.

🔗 Join an Arches Modeling Interest Group meeting to ask modeling questions and get feedback from the community:

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...

The project is led by Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE), in partnership with Faculdade de Arquitectura da Universidade do Porto (FAUP) and Universidade Portucalense (UPT), and funded by Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I.P. (FCT).

The project includes a comprehensive inventory of Siza’s built works to provide more accessible and accurate information for researchers, professionals, and the public.

🔎 Learn more about the project and explore Siza’s works here: sizaatlas.iscte-iul....

🏢 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.

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Learn more about Lingo:
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Follow the UK Interest Group on the Arches Project Community Forum for updates:
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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...

🔍 Explore the Palisades Fire: Damage Assessments featured search:
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ℹ️ Learn more about the Arches US Interest Group:
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As part of the January 8, 2026 Arches US Interest Group meeting, Sara Delgadillo (Los Angeles City Planning's Office of Historic Resources) presented on recent updates to HistoricPlacesLA, an Arches-powered system managed by Los Angeles City Planning’s Office of Historical Resources for inventorying Powered by Arches: Presentation on HistoricPlacesLA Update in Response to 2025 Palisades Fire Damage

▶️ 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.

Arches 7.6.20 Released! The Arches team is happy to announce the release of Arches 7.6.20. This release fixes a bug with the display of the edit type in the resource edit history and provides an important security fix. To upgrade to 7.6.20, follow the upgrade instructions in the release notes. As always the documentation can be found at http://arches.readthedocs.io. Thanks very much to everyone who has contributed to this release!

Arches v7.6.20 has also been released, which provides a display bug fix as well as an important security fix. Visit the Community Forum for release notes:

🖥️ 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

Arches Modeling Interest Group | Arches Project Details about the Arches Modeling Interest Group and ways to participate.

For more about the Arches Modeling User Group, including how to engage with group members on the forum and how to sign up for the group’s mailing list, visit: