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Environmental Review:
Education
GIS Digital Research Demo
The Washington State Department of Archaeology and Historic Preservation (DAHP) has entered a new era of digital research. We have set up three consultant workstations that access our cultural resource databases and serve up scanned images of cultural resource documents through a GIS portal. We provide demonstrations of our integrated system to the consultant community on the
second Tuesday of each month at 10:00 AM and again at 1:00 PM.
The demonstrations are approximately 1.5 hours long and will allow ample time for each consultant to take the system for a test drive.
Please take note that these sessions are not to be considered GIS training, but simply an overview of our system to enable researchers to use it to their benefit. It is our sincere hope that digital research will streamline the often-tedious process of digging through DAHP records. Check our website periodically to see if the demonstration schedule has been revised.
The GIS interface is ArcView 9.0 with select data layers to assist the researcher. The scanned images may be examined by means of a proprietary viewer, and the databases were developed using Microsoft Access. A printer is installed for consultant use at a fee of 15 cents per page. To safeguard the sensitive nature of the data and our agency’s network as well, we have tight security in place. The consultant workstations require not only distinct logons and passwords, but will not allow any activity other than “read-only” in nature. The floppy drives, CD drives, USB ports, Internet and email access have all been disabled.
Please remember that only those individuals who attend a demonstration and give one day’s prior notice to DAHP before coming to do research will be allowed to use our consultant workstations. Individuals will still be able to access the paper records at DAHP with a prior appointment as they have in the past. However it is our goal to eventually have all the paper records archived and shift totally to computer workstations for research. In the future, we hope to have data available on secure servers on the web but we lack a source of funding to pursue this important management tool.
Please contact Zee Hill at Zee.Hill@dahp.wa.gov to reserve a demonstration date and time. This will be done on a first-come, first-served basis via email only.
Department of Archaeology & Historic Preservation
1063 South Capitol Way, Suite 106
Olympia WA 98501
Phone: 360-586-3065
Fax: 360-586-3067