Arches-HIP Data Resources

Arches-HIP is designed to allow you to create cultural heritage inventories that consist of 6 primary resource types:

  • Heritage Resources: These are culturally significant objects such as buildings and monuments. However, Heritage Resources may be any object that an organization regards as important. Examples include air raid sirens, statues, canals, roads, gates, bridges, etc.
  • Heritage Resource Groups These are collections of heritage resources that are best regarded as a group. In Europe, such resources are often referred to as ensembles. In the United States, districts or landscapes may be inventoried as Heritage Resource Groups.
  • Activity In Arches-HIP, activities are resources that occur over a period of time. Examples include surveys, investigations, excavations, literature review, and other actions.
  • Historic Event These are culturally significant occurrences. Examples include the 1906 San Francisco Earthquake, Coronation of Napoleon, and the Normandy Beach landings in WWII.
  • Actor In Arches-HIP, actor resources are persons, groups of people, or organizations.
  • Information Objects These are objects that encode information such as an image (either digital or a traditional photograph), documents, signs, inscriptions, or 33 1/3 rpm records.

Each HIP resource provides a rich list of attributes that can be used to describe a cultural heritage feature in detail. The set of attributes that make up a resource is defined using a Graph.

Arches-HIP implements one Graph for each resource type. A key capability of Arches-HIP is that each Graph implements the CIDOC CRM (http://www.cidoc-crm.org/) ontology to impart meaning to each attribute in a resource graph.

Note

Certain heritage objects like an archaeological site can be modeled as either a resource or a group depending on your preference or implementation decision.

HIP Graphs

You can get a sense of the type of information associated with each resource by looking at each graph (details about the graphs attributes can be found in Appendix A):

To learn more about resource graphs check out the general Arches Documentation . For a closer and more in-depth look at each of these graphs, click on their title links.

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Representing Information in Arches-HIP

Arches-HIP Graphs define the semantics and types of data associated with each resource. If you look at each Graph closely, you will see the attributes that describe a resource. For example, most Graphs have a branch that describes “Place”. One way to describe place is with an address. Another way to describe place is with spatial coordinates. Arches-HIP provides data entry screens that make it easy to enter these data.

In many cases, Arches-HIP assumes that you will want to limit the values for an attribute to a list of approved terms. For example, you will likely want to limit the terms used to describe the condition of a resource to values such as “good”, “fair”, “poor”. Arches-HIP allows you to define the exact terms you wish to use for these kinds of attributes.

Arches-HIP includes an “Authority File” for every attribute that is constrained by a controlled vocabulary. Note that a “controlled vocabulary” is nothing more than a listing of terms that will be used to describe an attribute of a resource. HIP gives you a lot of flexibility in defining your controlled vocabularies. They may be simple word lists (like the example for describing the condition of a resource) or a full-flegded thesaurus.

Included Authority Files

HIP comes with the following authority files included. It is also important to note that one entity type can apply to multiple resource graphs.

Entity Type Authority Document
ACTIVITY_TYPE.E55 ACTIVITY_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
ACTOR_TYPE.E55 ACTOR_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
ADDRESS_TYPE.E55 ADDRESS_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
ADMINISTRATIVE_SUBDIVISION_TYPE.E55 ADMINISTRATIVE_SUBDIVISION_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
BEGINNING_OF_EXISTENCE_TYPE.E55 BEGINNING_OF_EXISTENCE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
COMPONENT_TYPE.E55 COMPONENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
CONDITION_TYPE.E55 CONDITION_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
CONSTRUCTION_TECHNIQUE.E55 CONSTRUCTION_TECHNIQUE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
CULTURAL_PERIOD.E55 CULTURAL_PERIOD_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
DESCRIPTION_TYPE.E55 DESCRIPTION_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
DISTURBANCE_TYPE.E55 DISTURBANCE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
ELIGIBILITY_REQUIREMENT_TYPE.E55 ELIGIBILITY_REQUIREMENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY DOCUMENT.csv
END_OF_EXISTENCE_TYPE.E55 END_OF_EXISTENCE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
EVALUATION_CRITERIA_TYPE.E55 EVALUATION_CRITERIA_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
EXTERNAL_XREF_TYPE.E55 EXTERNAL_XREF_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
GEOMETRY_QUALIFIER.E55 GEOMETRY_QUALIFIER_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
HERITAGE_RESOURCE_GROUP_TYPE.E55 HERITAGE_RESOURCE_GROUP_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
HERITAGE_RESOURCE_TYPE.E55 HERITAGE_RESOURCE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
HISTORICAL_EVENT_TYPE.E55 HISTORICAL_EVENT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
IDENTIFIER_TYPE.E55 IDENTIFIER_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
INFORMATION_CARRIER_FORMAT_TYPE.E55 INFORMATION_CARRIER_FORMAT_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
INFORMATION_RESOURCE_TYPE.E55 INFORMATION_RESOURCE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
INTEGRITY_TYPE.E55 INTEGRITY_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
KEYWORD.E55 KEYWORD_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
RECOMMENDATION_TYPE.E55 RECOMMENDATION_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
ANCILLARY_FEATURE_TYPE.E55 RELATED_FEATURE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
RESOURCE_TYPE_CLASSIFICATION.E55 RESOURCE_CLASSIFICATION_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
RIGHT_TYPE.E55 RIGHT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
SETTING_TYPE.E55 SETTING_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
STATUS.E55 STATUS_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
STYLE.E55 STYLE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
THREAT_TYPE.E55 THREAT_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
TITLE_TYPE.E55 TITLE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
TYPE_OF_DESIGNATION_OR_PROTECTION.E55 TYPE_OF_DESIGNATION_OR_PROTECTION_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
UNIT_OF_MEASUREMENT.E55 UNIT_OF_MEASUREMENT_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
HISTORIC_DISTRICT_USE_TYPE.E55 USE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv
HISTORIC_RESOURCE_USE_TYPE.E55 USE_TYPE_AUTHORITY_DOCUMENT.csv

More information on the entity types these authority documents describe can be found in Appendix A