Cultural Resources Subcommittee Update to Coordination Group

1. 13 May 2014 Coordination Group Meeting Cultural Resources Subcommittee Update to Coordination Group Deidre McCarthy, Chair Acting Program Manager, Cultural Resource GIS Facility, National Park Service 202-354-2141 Deidre_mccarthy@nps.gov

2. Introduction The Mission/Purpose of the Cultural Resource Subcommittee is: identify, prioritize, implement, coordinate and oversee the strategies and tasks required to support the national cultural resource data theme and to coordinate Federal, Tribal, state and local geospatial programs to that end. Members include: • Deidre McCarthy, National Park Service, Chair (John Knoerl retired January 2014) • Deidre McCarthy, National Park Service, theme lead • 20 Federal land holding agencies • 10 State Historic Preservation Offices • 10 Tribal governments, Tribal Historic Preservation Offices

3. NGDA Data Themes and Data Sets • The following data themes and data sets fall under the purview of the Cultural Resource Subcommittee: • Cultural resource data theme, National Park Service, theme lead: Deidre McCarthy • National Register of Historic Places data set, National Park Service, Matthew Stutts • Point Landmark (2010 Census), Census, Jennifer Holland • Area Landmark (2010 Census), Census, Jennifer Holland • Topological Faces-Area Landmark Relationship File, Census, Jennifer Holland • National Map-Geographic Names Information System, USGS, Lou Yost • National Monuments/Icons, DHS, no POC

4. Recent Meetings • The Cultural Resource Subcommittee met on 22 April 2014. • The topics discussed at this meeting include: • Discussion of the amended cultural resource spatial data transfer standard proposal • Update on the progress of the cultural resource spatial data transfer standard draft • Some of the outcomes arising from this meeting include: • Final decision from the members regarding the amended cultural resource spatial data transfer standard proposal, now ready for submission to the Standards Working Group • The Subcommittee Chair will begin to draft the proposed cultural resource spatial data transfer standard based on task group input in preparation for the July 2014 meeting

5. Recent Developments/Projects • The Subcommittee has committed to constructing a cultural resource spatial data transfer standard to facilitate sharing data between Federal agencies. Federal, State and Tribal agencies all maintain inventories of cultural resources and are heavily involved in the standard creation process in anticipation of using the FGDC standard created. Task groups to examine feature level metadata requirements, linking spatial data to descriptive data, geographic delineation of features, safeguarding sensitive information and exploring existing standards continue to work on their portions, reporting back to the larger Subcommittee. The Subcommittee will be working toward creating a draft standard in 2014. • The existing standards task group has completed their research and is contributing to the Unified Federal Environmental/Historic Preservation Review for Disaster Recovery Projects on-going DHS/FEMA effort

6. Recent Developments/Projects, Cont’d. • The Subcommittee is working toward the approval of an amendment to the cultural resource spatial data standard proposal to clarify the standard type as well as update the schedule and other details • The Subcommittee is working toward identifying additional data sets that will fall within the cultural resource theme and identifying data set stewards for them.

7. Coordination Group Vote • No Coordination Group action is requested at this time.

8. Next Meeting • The next meeting of the Cultural Resource Subcommittee will be held on 29 July 2014. It will take place via teleconference. • Some of the topics to be discussed at the next meeting include: • The status amended standard proposal • Progress toward a cultural resource spatial data transfer standard draft.

9. Next Steps • In the coming months, the Cultural Resource Subcommittee hopes to accomplish/discuss: • Coordination of the sensitive information and the geographic delineation task groups to contribute to the draft set of feature level metadata already developed for the cultural resource spatial data transfer standard draft. • Preliminary development of a draft cultural resource spatial data transfer standard.

10. Questions? Deidre McCarthy, National Park Service 202-354-2141 Deidre_mccarthy@nps.gov