Getting Out of the Box: New Horizons for Cultural Resources Data Management and Analyses

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Though making great strides over the past 50 years, Section 106, the primary driver of Cultural Resource Management (CRM), is still boxed in by rote inventory and unimaginative interpretation and implementation. This poster details a national initiative by the Bureau of Land Management to create cultural heritage resource data standards, which allow the application of more rigorous data management principles to landscape level planning and data modeling across the Western United States. Using a systematic attribution structure and ubiquitous domain values, the standard facilitates proactive versus reactive resource assessments, allows for advanced querying and geo-statistical analysis, and the enables development of appropriate treatments of cultural heritage values. This poster exhibits the BLM national CRM standard and associated modeling tools, showing ways we can break out of the box through standardized data management and applied analytical applications.

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• Society for American Archaeology 84th Annual Meeting, Albuquerque, NM (2019)

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Abstract Id(s): 26101