NAGPRA Data Management Plan

Summary

This is an abstract from the "In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

It has been over three decades since the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) was signed into law on November 16, 1990. NAGPRA was passed in a different information environment than the one at present; electronic documents are now ubiquitous and legislative mandates require a transition from paper documents to digital formats. With this new climate comes new challenges to preserving the integrity of documentation both for security and in respect to stakeholder communities. A particularly relevant subject area is the issue of redaction, which requires an adaptive approach when decolonizing legacy collections. A new path must be forged to develop a model of best practices, to ensure the integrity of the information gathered, and communicate amongst various entities to ensure that the spirit of the legislation is upheld. As part of a NAGPRA repatriation project, I developed a data management plan to comply with legal requirements and worked to devise a redaction policy, with the specific aims to consider the unique challenges posed with electronic storage and the conversion from older formats. It is hoped that this work will promote a reconsideration of information policies that ensure the utmost effort to secure sensitive information.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• In Search of Solutions: Exploring Pathways to Repatriation for NAGPRA Practitioners (Part IV): NAGPRA in Policy, Protocol, and Practice   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 39071.0