The Australian Heritage Council published and currently maintains several heritage georeferenced Australian data sets, including: World Heritage List, National Heritage List, Commonwealth Heritage List, Australian National Shipwreck Database. The first three can be also viewed as distinct themes within The National Map of Australia. Current situation: a) all levels of implementation, from local to national, b) GIS technology included within the national information infrastructure, c) GIS applications publicly available, d) main fields of application: heritage management, archaeology, aboriginal communities.

(contributions from Georgia Meros)

References

CSIRO, 2018. National Map, Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, research.csiro.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/85/2015/02/National-Map.pdf

Mohamed-Ghouse, Z. S., Kelly, D., Costello, A., Edmonds, V., 2012. Artefact Mobile Data Model to Support Cultural Heritage Data Collection and Interpretation, Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci., XXXIX-B5, 571-576, doi.org/10.5194/isprsarchives-XXXIX-B5-571-2012

Reeler, C., 2015. Is the use of GIS in Cultural Heritage Outdated?, in Traviglia, A., (ed.), Across Space and Time, 41st Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, CAA 2013,Perth, Australia, 25-28 March 2013, Amsterdam University Press, 482-487, https://www.academia.edu/43062427/Across_Space_and_Time_on_Computer_Applications_ and_Quantitative_Methods_in_Archaeology_?email_work_card=view-paper

Rowland, M., Connolly, M., 2002. Towards GIS Mapping and Spatial Modelling of Archaeological Sites in the Southeast Queensland Bioregion, Queensland Archaeological Research, 13, 39-62