Abstract

Managing Cultural Resources Using GIS: Designing a Process That Works
Track: Archaeology
Author(s): Connie Reiner

Bonneville Power Administration's (BPA) Cultural Resource Department has designed, built and now maintains a complex GIS process, and resulting Esri geodatabases, to gather, store, and analyze cultural resource GIS data to protect and preserve cultural resources, while meeting BPA's Section 106 responsibilities. The process includes everything from specific language in statements of work to ensure GIS deliverables to incorporating GPS data collected by BPA cultural resource staff into a geodatabase that is used by cultural resource staff to produce their own maps. Finally, the geodatabase is linked into BPA's intranet to support BPA's GIS Enterprise initiative.

Connie Reiner
Bonneville Power Administration
905 NE 11th
Portland , Oregon 97208
United States
Phone: 503-230-4739
E-mail: cjreiner@bpa.gov