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Managing Digital Data at the North Carolina Office of State Archaeology: Challenges and Directions

Sun, 08 Apr 2018 by Rosemarie Blewitt / abstracts

The North Carolina Office of State Archaeology (OSA) was created by the North Carolina General Assembly in 1973 to coordinate and implement a statewide archaeological preservation program. This program includes prehistoric, historic, and underwater archaeology, and is implemented by staff in five offices throughout the state. Central to …

Always Halfway There: Keeping Up with Digital Archaeological Data in Virginia

Sat, 07 Apr 2018 by Jolene Smith / presentation

Jolene Smith

Since being one of the first State Historic Preservation Offices to adopt electronic records management in the late ‘80s, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources has worked through several iterations of databases and web applications. These systems manage basic site information, details about physical collections, and now digital …

Approaches, Rationales, and Challenges to Maintaining Site Inventory in the National Parks

Wed, 14 Mar 2018 by David Gadsby / presentations

David Gadsby

For over a century, the National Park Service (NPS) has worked to preserve natural and cultural resources in more than four hundred park units for future generations. In addition, the National Historic Preservation Act (NHPA) requires all federal agencies to maintain inventories of their historic properties. For decades …