Overview

Mapping cultural resources expands traditional documentation means. Review why the use of geographic information systems (GIS) is important to cultural resource management, inventory creation, and compliance with historic preservation legislation. Examine available data sources and the sharing and securing of cultural resource spatial data. Consider GIS tools that assist in historic preservation work, including story maps, mobile GIS applications, and integrating historic maps, LiDAR, and GPS. 


Agenda

  • Importance of mapping in expanding traditional documentation
  • Regulatory need for cultural resource spatial data
  • Federal, state, and local need for cultural resource spatial data
  • Using GIS data as a form of documentation
  • Sharing cultural resource spatial data
  • NPS Cultural Resource Spatial Data Standards
  • GIS in long-term cultural resource management
  • Expanding the use of data
  • CRGIS provides cultural resource GIS data
  • Mobile GIS applications
  • GIS data sources
  • Integrating historic maps, LiDAR, and GPS
  • Story maps and interpretation tools
  • The role of the federal government: Federal Geographic Data Committee
  • Important new laws: Geospatial Data Act, Open Government Data Act
  • Securing cultural resource spatial data
  • Overview of related NPI GIS courses

Training Curriculum

60-minute, on-demand eLearning

  • 1

    Welcome Letter

    • NPI Welcome Letter
  • 2

    Videos

    • The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources: Part 1

    • The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources: Part 2

    • The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources: Part 3

    • The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources: Part 4

    • The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources: Part 5

    • The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources: Part 6
  • 3

    Download Course Slides

    • The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources (slide deck)
  • 4

    Download Video Transcript

    • The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources (transcript)
  • 5

    Course Evaluation

    • NPI Evaluation

Faculty

Faculty

Deidre McCarthy, GISP

Deidre McCarthy, GISP, chief, Cultural Resources Geographic Information Systems (CRGIS) Facility, National Park Service; facilitates the use of GIS to manage the location, status, and condition of cultural resources.
Full Bio/CV

Participants

This training is suitable for

  • Archaeologists; architectural historians; planners; preservation architects and landscape architects;

  • Community leaders; contractors, consultants, and project managers; cultural and natural resource managers responsible for compliance requirements;

  • Facility managers of historic properties; national, statewide, and local preservation and land management organization members and staff

Immediate Access

Related Trainings

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources:  An Introduction (SERIES: online / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: An Introduction—1 Getting Familiar (30 minute / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: An Introduction—2 Querying Data (45 minute / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: An Introduction—3 Working with Tables (45 minute / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: An Introduction—4 Editing Spatial Data (75 minute / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: An Introduction—5 Making Paper Maps (75 minute / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: An Introduction—6 Building Projects and Performing Analysis (75 minute / on-demand eLearning)

 

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: Advanced Techniques (SERIES: online / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: Advanced Techniques—1 GIS Data Sources (30 minute / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: Advanced Techniques—2 Georeferencing Historic Maps (30 minute / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: Advanced Techniques—3 Introduction to the Geodatabase (60 minute / on-demand eLearning)

ArcGIS for Cultural Resources: Advanced Techniques—4 New GIS Tools (60 minute/on-demand eLearning)


The Importance of Mapping Cultural Resources (60 minute / on-demand eLearning)

Customized Training

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