BUREAU OF LAND MANAGEMENT DATA SHARING PARTNERSHIP
CASE STUDY
BLM continues a 20-year partnership with the SHPOs of Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, andWyoming that makes historic property data available to other federal agencies, Indian tribes, consultants, and academics.The Cultural Resources Data Partnership (CRDP) includes financial support to SHPOs to maintain statewide inventories and allows technical support between SHPOs and the BLM. The geographic information data describes information on historic properties of all types, including archaeological sites, historic structures,TCPs, and cultural landscapes.The project involves digitizing and automating BLM site records, locations, and surveyed space and making this information widely available and usable by multiple entities.The goal is to invest in developing the SHPO data management systems, pursuant to the NHPA, creating a shared inventory of cultural resources data, rather than having BLM also maintain a separate inventory, which significantly reduced costs and redundancy.
The data-sharing project began in 1998 as a provision of the nationwide Programmatic Agreement between the BLM, the ACHP, and NCSHPO. At that time, it was viewed as a five- year project but has evolved into a long-term partnership between the BLM and the 11 western states where BLM has significant land managing responsibilities. In 2008, the CRDP received the Special Achievement in Geographic Information Systems award from ESRI (a pioneering GIS software company) for data sharing that is propelling BLM and the SHPOs into managing thousands of public lands’ cultural resource sites uniformly, cohesively, and comprehensively. In 2009, the project received the ACHP’s Chairman’s Award in recognition of a combined effort among the BLM and the SHPOs that enables cultural resource professionals to have consistent, reliable, easy-to- use spatial information systems on their desktop computers to support informed federal decision making.The CRDP demonstrates how federal and state interests can work together to advance shared objectives for the common good of resources and streamlined and efficient business practices.
C hairman ’ s a ward F or F ederal a Chievement i n h istoriC P reservation
presented to the
U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management
for theCulturalResourcesDataSharing project operating in 11western states in conjunction with theirStateHistoricPreservationOfficers
August 19, 2009
JohnL.Nau, III,Chairman
ACHP Chairman’s Award certificate from 2009
Cultural Resources Data Sharing Partnership poster (courtesy BLM)
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