Carol:

In California, the Info Centers code the data from reports sent in and send the data to the Office
of Historic Preservation (the SHPO's office).
If your company has been filing its reports with the Info Centers, then (in theory) the reports
should be in NADB.

Gwyn Alcock
Statistical Research, Inc.
Redlands, CA
(and former Info Center staff person)

--- "Mary S. Carroll" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> Currently NADB-R is updated through the SHPOs and this office. As Mike Polk
> said, Terry Childs -- who manages NADB-R -- will be at the ACRA meetings.
> I'm sure she'd be happy to hear your comments and answer your questions.
>
> Regards.
>
> Mary S. Carroll
> Archeology & Ethnography Program
> National Park Service
> 1849 C St NW, (2275)
> Washington DC 20240-0001
> 202-354-2103, 202-371-6485 fax
>
>
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>                       Carol Serr
>                       <[log in to unmask]>         To:       [log in to unmask]
>                       Sent by:                 cc:       (bcc: Mary Carroll/WASO/NPS)
>                       HISTORICAL               Subject:  Re: Sharing our findings....
>                       ARCHAEOLOGY
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>                       09/10/2004 02:27
>                       PM MST
>                       Please respond to
>                       HISTORICAL
>                       ARCHAEOLOGY
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> I'll expose my ignorance (again)...and ask...How does one go about getting
> their reports on this database?  Is this something the state historic
> office of preservation does (from their regional information centers)??  It
> would be nice if there were more local regional places to access.  Not that
> I dont think we could learn from other parts of the country/world...but we
> usually are dealing with local issues.  Of course...I'm thinking of
> prehistoric sites mostly.  (oops)
>
> Thanks for the link Mary.  Of course Smoke's comment makes me wonder about
> Who decides what gets posted on there...and how current it is.
>
> Carol
> San Diego
>
> At 03:19 PM 9/10/2004 -0400, Mary S. Carroll wrote:
> >On the issue of unpublished CRM reports, NPS has had a publicly accessible
> >database -- the National Archeological Database, Reports module --
> >available on the web for quite some time that is designed for that "gray
> >literature."  It's at
> http://web.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nadb/nadb.mul.html
> >and has recently been updated with more than 110,000 records -- bringing
> >the total to 350,000+ records. While it doesn't provide the full text of
> >the reports, it certainly is a good place to start.
> >
> >In case you're interested, Terry Childs and I have proposed a forum on the
> >issue of access to archeological gray literature for the 2005 SAA meetings
> >in Salt Lake City.
> >
> >Mary S. Carroll
> >Archeology & Ethnography Program
> >National Park Service
> >1849 C St NW, (2275)
> >Washington DC 20240-0001
> >202-354-2103, 202-371-6485 fax
>