A Survey of SHPO Archeological Reports Bibliographic Systems, 2002

NADB-R is a bibliographic inventory of reports about archeological investigations and planning across the United States. AEP works with the State Historic Preservation Offices (SHPOs) to collect the bibliographic data recorded for each state for national access and use. The Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies (CAST) at the University of Arkansas hosts the searchable, online NADB-R database <http://web.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nadb/nadb.mul.html> that currently holds approximately 240,000 bibliographic records. The majority of these records document the archeological “gray literature,” typically the unpublished and narrowly distributed reports that are hard to access by researchers, CRM contractors, and government agencies. This literature, however, provides a large share of the data on archeological sites and projects nationwide. Recently the Society for American Archaeology cited NADB and particularly NADB-Reports in its initiative for renewing national archeology. NADB-R is considered an important tool for cultural resource management efforts and an important step in reporting on archeological work.

NADB-R是覆盖全美的考古调查与规划报告文献目录集。AEP与各州历史保护办公室（State Historic Preservation Offices，SHPOs）合作，收集各州归档的文献目录数据，以供全国范围内访问与使用。阿肯色大学高级空间技术中心（Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies，CAST）运营着可检索的在线NADB-R数据库<http://web.cast.uark.edu/other/nps/nadb/nadb.mul.html>，目前该库收录约24万条文献目录记录。其中绝大多数记录记载了考古“灰色文献”的相关内容——这类文献通常未正式出版且传播范围狭窄，研究人员、文化资源管理（Cultural Resource Management，CRM）承包商及政府机构均难以获取。然而这类灰色文献却提供了全美考古遗址与相关项目的大部分核心数据。近日，美国考古学会（Society for American Archaeology）在其全国考古振兴倡议中提及了NADB，尤其是NADB-R。NADB-R被视为文化资源管理工作的重要工具，同时也是考古工作成果报告流程中的关键一环。