SurveyLA Receives Third CLG Grant from the State

The City of Los Angeles has received a $25,000 Certified Local Government (CLG) grant from the State of California to assist in developing a Data Transfer Application for electronic transfer of SurveyLA data to the State Office of Historic Preservation. This is the third consecutive CLG grant awarded to the City.

The grant project is being managed by the Department of City Planning's Office of Historic Resources and Systems and GIS Division. Since SurveyLA will generate thousands of new records on potential historic resources, the ability to automate data transfer to OHP will simplify the task of data management, eliminate the need for paper reports, ensure greater accuracy and consistency, and improve data availability. The Application is being designed to transfer information using fields consistent with those used to generate state-required historic resources survey forms and other fields required by the State Historic Resources Inventory (HRI).

Currently, municipalities and other agencies throughout California submit paper survey forms to the OHP and information is manually entered into the HRI database. The Data Transfer Application will be used as a pilot program for OHP to develop a consistent data exchange system which may be used throughout California.