The National Cultural Resources Information Management System (NCRIMS): New Horizons for Cultural Resources Data Management and Analyses

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values" session, at the 86th 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 often boxed in by rote inventory and derivative interpretation and implementation. This paper will discuss a national initiative by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to create a national cultural resources data standard (NCRDS), which allows for the application of more rigorous data management principles that facilitate landscape level planning and data modeling on BLM administered lands across the western United States. The NCRDS and associated NCRIMS tool includes normalized data from 11 western SHPO and BLM data stores. NCRIMS allows for high-level planning during preparation of Programmatic Environmental Impact Statements, Resource Management Plans, and other multistate and regional project analyses—such as transmission, pipeline, and travel management undertakings. NCRIMS facilitates treatment of cultural heritage values early in the planning process versus late stages as has been traditional, as well as applying high-level modeling principles to early stage data analyses. This paper will discuss the BLM NRCDS, NCRIMS, and associated modeling tools, displaying ways we can break out of the box through standardized data management and applied analytical applications.

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• Society for American Archaeology 86th Annual Meeting, Online (2021)   •
• Refining Archaeological Data Collection and Management to Achieve Greater Scientific, Traditional, and Educational Values

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Abstract Id(s): 32624