The National Cultural Resources Information Management System (NCRIMS)

New Horizons for Cultural Resources Data Management and Analyses

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ID13085151
AuthorsF Kirk Halford (0000-0002-5685-5281, Boise State University, corresponding author), Dayna M Ables (Museum of New Mexico)
Year2023
Volume11
Issue1
Pages52-62
Publication date2023-02-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAdvances in Archaeological Practice (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2326-3768 • E-ISSN: 2326-3768
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/aap.2022.39
OpenAlexW4322505278
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited8

Despite making great strides over the past 50 years, cultural resources data management and synthesis continues to be elusive and nonstandardized, with each state and agency developing disparate systems that do not easily mesh. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has embarked on a national initiative by creating a National Cultural Resources Data Standard (NCRDS) that works to address many long-standing data organization issues. The NCRDS 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 National Cultural Resources Information Management System (NCRIMS) contains normalized data from 11 western State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs) and BLM data stores. NCRIMS is a web-based application hosted by the BLM's National Operations Center (NOC) Enterprise Geographic Information System (EGIS). NCRIMS allows for high-level planning during local, regional, and multistate project analyses and undertakings, facilitating consideration of cultural heritage values early in the planning process versus late stages as has been traditional. This allows the BLM to more proactively, effectively, and efficiently answer data calls and inform agency decision-makers on possible impacts to cultural heritage resources by proposed or ongoing agency actions

Agency (philosophy · Archaeology · Business · Civil engineering · Cultural heritage · Data management · Database · Environmental resource management · Geography · Information system · Land management · Land use · Political science · Process (computing · Sociology · State (computer science · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and Natural History · Computer Science · Engineering · Geographic Information Systems Studies · Law

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