Upload
nt-spatial
View
223
Download
0
Embed Size (px)
Citation preview
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
1/13
Data Management and Automated Mapping
Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
AAPA
What is a Sacred Site?
The NT Aboriginal Sacred Sites
Act
AAPA Data
Automated Mapping Project
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
2/13
The Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority
The Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority (AAPA) is anindependent statutory organisation
established under the Northern Territory
Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act, and is responsible
for overseeing the protection of Aboriginal
sacred sites on land and sea across the whole
of Australias Northern Territory.
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
3/13
What is a Sacred Site?
a site that is sacred to Aboriginals or is otherwise of significanceaccording to Aboriginal tradition
In the Northern Territory most sacred sites are Dreaming sites.
Dreamtime ancestors travelled across the landscape giving it form andgiving Aboriginal people their traditional law.
Their activities took p
hysical form
in landscape features.
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
4/13
Sacred sites take many forms
Not all sacred sites are registered.
All sacred sites are protected by Territory law whether
registered or not.
Hills, rock outcrops, waterholes, trees, reefs,
ochre sources, etc. may be Dreaming sites.
The Authority has also been asked to protect
some ceremony grounds and mortuary areas.
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
5/13
NORTHERN TERRITORY ABORIGINAL SACRED
SITES ACT 1989
to effect a practical balance between the recognized need to preserve andenhance Aboriginal cultural tradition..and the aspirations of the Aboriginal and
all other peoples of the Territory for their economic, cultural and social
advancement
It is an offence under the Act to
enter onto a sacred site
carry out works on or use a sacred site
desecrate a sacred site
The Act is administered by the Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority.
The Act binds the Crown..in all its other capacities.
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
6/13
Functions of AAPA under the
N.T. Aboriginal Sacred Sites Act
Establish and maintain a Register of Sacred Sites.
Process Authority Certificate applications for works
proposed anywhere in the Territory.
Maintain a Register of Authority Certificates.
Prosecute for breaches of the Act.
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
7/13
AAPA Data
Strange concept mapping a culture
Aboriginal association with the land
implies an inherent spatial aspect to
protecting culture
We can utilise this to represent
aspect of the Aboriginal culture in a
visual / map form
11,000 + Sites in the AAPA Database
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
8/13
AAPA Data - Sensitivity
The AAPA are holding sacred site
data in trust for custodians and
using it to protect sacred sites
New sites are generally recorded in
response to an application for an
Authority Certificate - custodians
divulge information when it is
needed to protect a sacred sites
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
9/13
AAPA Data Limitations
Incomplete dataset
Only claim full coverage in areas covered by Authority Certificates
Sites often appear in our records if they are susceptible to
damage
Regardless of differing levels of site information and accuracy
classed using site status, all are protected under our Act
Different boundary types
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
10/13
Automating our Mapping
Heavy increase in services meant we had to tighten up our systems
This included our research database as well as our mapping systems
Project was undertaken to automate our common mapping products
Authority Certificates, Requests for Information and Site
Registration
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
11/13
Automating our Mapping - Situation
Database : Oracle 11g
Mapping Software Mapinfo 11.0
Using some old mapbasic scripts to update data and create
layouts
Manually providing data to external agencies using mapinfo sql
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
12/13
Automating our Mapping - Changes
Using FME began the process of creating scripts to updatedata from internal and external databases and set them to run
automatically each night.
Once this was successful we delved deeper into FME and
started creating scripts to automate our mapping.
This was highly successful and implemented within a year.
Non GIS staff are now responsible for creating lots of our
products with sign off by our SLIO
8/2/2019 201244 Dwyer, Donna Data Management and Automated Mapping - Protecting Sacred Sites in the Northern Territory
13/13
Automating our Mapping - Future
Data Integrity Using scripts to highlight data issues in our
database
Web mapping view of data for all staff
Mobile Mapping