The following a general plan for the Arches project. Be aware this plan is tentative and subject to change.

• User friendly resource identifiers
• Import and indexing of file metadata
• Global Arches Functions (triggered by tile crud events regardless of graph)
• RDM officially deprecated in favor of controlled lists (RDM remains available until v9.0)
• Deprecation of mapbox-gl.js
• Adoption of Default Deny as default resource instance permission framework
• The following datatypes are deprecated (still available until 9.0)
  • concept
  • concept-list
  • domain
  • domain-list
• Unfunded "Wishlist":
  • Support for configuration of navigation bar UI to allow for greater UI customization
  • Allow for reference data type to replace concepts in defining resource relationships
  • Nullable number widget
  • Focus on squashing all Arches Designer bugs

• Unfunded "Wishlist":
  • Upgrade to Python 3.14
  • Upgrade rdflib to latest
  • Upgrade to Django 6
  • Upgrade to PostgreSQL 18
  • Upgrade to ElasticSearch 9
  • Improved support for user/group preferences
  • Graph edit log and history UI
  • Tools for building resource data migrations between graph versions
  • Single source of truth for tile display values, available at all tiers of the stack
  • Require default value on required nodes (and move default value config to node)
  • Performance enhancements for loading large datasets
  • Pluggable backend search
  • Support for MapLibre (or make map component pluggable)
  • Support for large filters (> URL limit)

• Full migration to Vue
• Removal of the RDM
• Removal of the following datatypes:
  • concept
  • concept-list
  • domain
  • domain-list datatypes

• Adds resource models and controlled lists for managing thesauri and their terms as Arches resource data
• Introduces the Arches Lingo UI, a dedicated, custom experience for creating and managing thesauri and their terms including:
  • Hierarchy viewer for exploring thesauri hierarchically
  • Basic search for finding terms in thesauri
  • Basic Scheme and Concept reports and editors for editing thesauri and their terms

• Improves the Arches Lingo UI with improved hierarchy viewer and search
• Extends the Scheme and Concept reports and editors with additional fields and features

• Adds support for managing scheme and concept lifecycles including
  • Publishing schemes and their concepts to create new versions of schemes
  • Managing the automatic generation and assignment of friendly identifiers and URIs for schemes and concepts
  • Deprecating concepts and schemes
• Adds support for bulk import and export of thesauri and their terms as SKOS RDF
• Enhances the Lingo UI with user dashboards
• Advanced search and filtering capabilities for thesauri and their terms
• Allow users to view edit log for thesauri and their terms and revert changes as part of a draft edit
• Saved searches and search results for managing lists of terms

• Adds support for additional import/export formats
• Public search interface for searching over published thesauri and their terms even during draft edits
• SPARQL endpoint for querying thesauri and their terms
• Support for splitting and merging concepts within thesauri
• A "candidate scheme" for managing terms before they are added to a thesaurus
• Managing hierarchies of additional models:
  • People and groups
  • Places
  • Time periods

• Support loading of skos files during package load

• Unfunded "Wishlist":
  • Migrate domains and domain tile data to references/controlled lists
  • Improving Controlled List Manager UI for large datasets
  • Tools for synchronizing references across lists and in tile data

• Postgresql fulltext search
• Through resource advanced search

• Upgrades Arches for HERs to work with Arches 7.6.x
• Retain placeholder text formatting for HTML (rich-text) values in consultation letters

• Upgrades Arches for HERs to work with Arches 8.x (LTS version)

• Supports Arches user authentication and permissions
• Allow users to create and edit Arches resources using geospatial data from a QGIS project
• Displays a history of all activities conducted via the plugin for a QGIS session
• Includes a user interface that mimics the Arches interface in addition to default QGIS styles

• Display an image of selected features on confirmation dialogs
• Replace stylesheet checkbox setting with a dropdown of options, and save selection to QSettings for preserving configuration
• Include a column for user in the activity log
• Update resource create and edit functions to run as QGIS tasks

• Update authentication to support Single Sign-On
• Convert the plugin user interface into a docked widget for attaching to QGIS panels

• Upgrade to PyQt 6 for compatibility with QGIS 4