Acknowledgements
Welcome to Oklahoma’s National Register of Historic Places and Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory Website. The National Register is the catalogue of our nations significant archeological and historic properties, and this website provides basic information about Oklahoma’s entries in the register. The Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory (OLI) is the documentation on architectural/historic resources the State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has collected from various sources and includes tens of thousands of entries. We believe that government agencies, preservation professionals, and concerned citizens will all find this website useful.
As with most efforts in Oklahoma’s historic preservation programs, development of this website depended on a partnership arrangement. The State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma Historical Society, entered into an agreement with the Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University, to carry out the project. The Kirkpatrick Family Group, a private foundation, provided financial assistance critical to the initial phase of the project which involved computerization of the OLI files.
The final compilation and construction of this website (including the map site, National Register Database, and the Oklahoma Landmarks Inventory Database) was undertaken between October 2001 and September 2005 under the direction of Dr. Allen Finchum of the Department of Geography, Oklahoma State University. This work was funded through a contract with the State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma Historical Society. The Department of Geography at OSU will continue to serve and update the database supporting this project under a continuing contract with SHPO.
The following persons are recognized for their contributions to the project, although many other people have contributed to the development of the database in various ways over the years.
· Louis Seig, Professor Emeritus at OSU, for his efforts in organizing and preparing the photographs for online display.
· Ryan Sigworth, Graduate Research Assistant at OSU, for his work in finalizing the database and developing the basic website.
· Varun Chudiwale and Pragya Jaiswal, Graduate Research Assistants at OSU, for developing the data display framework programs and their work in moving the project databases to SQL Server.
· Bruce Battles, CARS Coordinator at OSU, for his technical assistance and expertise.
· George O. Carney, Regents Professor at OSU, and his long-term cadre of graduate research assistants, for the initial cataloging and development of the OLI Database which was used as a foundation for the online information displayed for the National Register Properties.
· Fred Wiemer, Independent Scholar, who provided an extensive photo collection to the SHPO of architecturally significant structures throughout Oklahoma, including many of the pictures used for the site.
Technical Information
Following is the technical information on how this project runs and the software required to make it work.
The backbone of the map functions within the project is based within ArcIMS 9.1. ArcIMS is an Internet Mapping Software package developed by the Environmental Systems Research Institute (ESRI). All map functions are performed by this software though the internet browser (via Netscape 4.75 or Microsoft Internet Explorer 5.0 or higher).
All non-ArcIMS webpages were designed using Microsoft Frontpage 2000. Selecting any National Register Site retrieves a webpage created by an ASP program designed to pull the appropriate data and photograph for each website. To put it simply, there is one template webpage used to retrieve all the information based on a unique 8-digit number for each National Register property. Hyperlinks have been created for each point on the map to link to the data and photograph for each National Register Site.
All of the data for the webpages is housed using Microsoft SQL Server database engine to provide multi-user access to the data. The photographs are retrieved from a separate directory based on the same unique 8-digit identification number. All photographs and data are from the State Historic Preservation Office, Oklahoma Historical Society, and the hard copies of the data on this site and related materials are available in that office.
The project is housed and maintained by the Department of Geography at Oklahoma State University under contract with the State Historic Preservation Office. The project is served from a Dell Server housed in the OSU IT Department computer room. The server has twin 3.2gHz processors, and is running ArcIMS 9.1, ArcSDE 9.1, Microsoft SQL Server 2000, and a Tomcat Servlet.
The map display is projected in an Albers Equal Area-USGS projection. The base data for the map was compiled in geographic (decimal degree) form, and projected upon completion.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF FEDERAL SUPPORT
The development of this web site has been financed in part with Federal funds from the National Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior. However, the contents and opinions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the Department of the Interior, nor does the mention of trade names or commercial products constitute endorsement or recommendation by the Department of the Interior.
The Oklahoma Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office, receives Federal financial assistance for identification and protection of historic properties. Under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, and the Age Discrimination Act of 1975, as amended, the U.S. Department of the Interior prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, national origin, disability or age in its federally assisted programs. If you believe you have been discriminated against in any program, activity, or facility as described above, or if you desire further information, please write to:
Office of Equal Opportunity
National Park Service
1849 C Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20240
Copyright 2005
Last Updated: 25 October 2005