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Databases

Our databases allow visitors to easily access information about such things as resources, archives, listings, maps, grants, and training within the Cultural Resources programs. If you're searching for something specific this "one stop shopping" site is a good place to start.
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Analytical and Materials Testing Services
Analytical and Materials Testing Services is a database of laboratories that provide cultural heritage preservation analytical services, compiled and maintained by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training.

Certified Local Government Database
This database allows you to find Certified Local Governments by State.

Conferences Database
A database of preservation-related conferences - including calls for papers - compiled and maintained by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. The database is searchable by keyword, discipline, location or date or by any combination of these fields.

Funding Opportunities
Funding Opportunities is a database of preservation-related grants and other funding opportunities compiled and maintained by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. The database is searchable by keyword and/or discipline.

Job Openings
Job Openings is a database of preservation-related job openings compiled and maintained by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. The database is searchable by keyword, discipline, organization type or location or by any combination of these fields.

Library of Congress-HABS/HAER Catalog
This web interface with the database of the Historic American Buildings Survey/Historic American Engineering Record (HABS/HAER) allows users to browse more than 36,000 entries of historic sites and structures. Subject, location and general keyword searches locate data and digital images for available measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written historical and descriptive data from the HABS/HAER Collections.

Materials Research Bibliography
Information about more than 1,400 literature offprints collected by the National Park Service’s Acid Rain Program and its successor Materials Research Program over a 13-year period is available in this bibliographic database.

National Archeological Database MAPS Module
Look at national distributions of cultural and environmental resources across the U.S. on various GIS maps provided through the MAPS module of the National Archeological Database.

National Archeological Database Reports Module
U.S archeologists have produced hundreds of thousands of reports on the results of their investigations. This module of the National Archeological Database is an expanded bibliographic inventory of approximately 240,000 reports on archeological investigation and planning, mostly of limited circulation ("gray literature"). NADB-Reports can be searched by state, county, cultural affiliation, keyword, year of publication, title, and author, among others.

National Historic Landmarks Database
Search for National Historic Landmarks by name or location and learn about their designation.

National NAGPRA Database
Archeological collections in U.S. museums have often contained human remains, unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony of Native American tribes. The Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act was enacted in 1990 to address the care and repatriation of many of these items. This database provides extensive information about the Act, the NAGPRA Review Committee, the notices of inventory completion and intent to repatriate, and much more.

The National Register Information System (NRIS)
Search the new advanced NRIS database, which holds information on every property listed in or determined eligible for the National Register. Find information by name, location, agency, or theme. More fields of search criteria will be added in the future.

National Underground Railroad, Network to Freedom Database
This is a new database of the sites, programs, and facilities included in the Network to Freedom. It is searchable by State and includes an abstract about the listing, as well as whether it is open to the public.

Native American Consultation Database
The Native American Consultation Database (NACD) provides an easy way to identify contacts for each of the 771 federally recognized Indian tribes, Alaska Native corporations, and Native Hawaiian organizations. You can search for contacts by name, tribe, reservation, state, country, and military installation.
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Preservation Internet Resources
Preservation Internet Resources is a database of preservation-related Web sites, listservs, usenet groups and other online electronic resources that is compiled and maintained by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. The database is searchable by keyword, discipline or resource type or by any combination of these fields.

PTTGrants and PTTProjects Catalog
The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training funds projects through its Preservation Technology and Training Grants (PTTGrants) and Preservation Technology and Training Projects (PTTProjects) programs. A catalog of all PTTGrants and PTTProjects, including the resulting products, is available as a searchable database.

State Historic Preservation Office Listing
A contacts listing of SHPO's and other preservation organizations are provided to promote the conservation of historic sites and structures in the U.S.

Training and Education Opportunities
Training & Education Opportunities is a database of preservation-related degree and certificate programs, workshops, internships, fellowships, and field schools - national and international -that is compiled and maintained by the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training. The database is searchable by keyword, opportunity type, degree type, discipline, location or date or by any combination of these fields.


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