Secure Information Management for Indigenous Governance
Cedar Box Apps
About the Apps
Secure Apps for Stewardship
Development App
Track and analyse project and permit applications, including Crown referrals
Highlights:
- Contacts Relationship Manager
- Rich per-Project information
- Geographic Information
- Spatial Analysis
- Upload planning layer Shapefiles
- Email Harvesting (with Files)
- Team Discussion
- Field Visit Reports
- Desktop GIS LiveLink
- Learn more…
Heritage App
Gather and manage traditional knowledge
Highlights:
- Upload TUS/TEK Shapefiles
- Documents cataloging
- Powerful search, including in-PDF search
- Geographic Information System tools
- Place-name & toponym database
- Archaeology reports
- Field visit reports
- Interview management
- Learn more…
Ecosystems App
Manage Mobile Field Forms data
Highlights:
- Manage your Ecosystems GIS database (cataloging)
- Upload key Ecosystem spatial layers
- Mobile field forms management tool
- Exploration and reporting interface
- Ecosystem integration into DevelopmentApp and HeritageApp
- Learn more…
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Nations Using CedarApps
885480
Lines of Code
2805
Projects Tracked
3449
TUS Sites Catalogued
Latest Blog Posts
The Blog
Code / Features
Cedar Heritage App – Spring 2018 upgrade
A new Cedar Apps features and fixes code push started in April with a focus on improvements to the Heritage App. We are extending the Community Map functionality, and continue to align Item fields with best practices standards (see links below). Stay tuned for new web Documentation and PDF Guide in the coming months. Best…
Communities / Presentations
CCIRA Indigenous Laws Project App Tour – Kitasoo/Xai’xais Nations
For the Indigenous Mapping Workshop 2016, Rosie Child and Charles put this video together: In the summer of 2015, Kitasoo/Xai’xais Nations joined the Indigenous Laws Project spearheaded by the Central Coast Indigenous Resource Alliance. Funding was found to hire 5 KX community researchers to work with 3 lawyers and assorted records management experts. A secure…
Communities / Presentations
SCGIS Conference Presentation
In June 2016, Charles went to the Society of Conservation GIS Conference in Monterrey, California to speak about Cedar Box Apps. Scroll down to view the video of the talk. Or view the slides at http://www.slideshare.net/cnburnett/webgisbased-conservation-tools-for-first-nations-stewardship Abstract Marine stewardship in British Columbia is increasingly complex, contextualized by our First Nations? strong rights and title positions,…
Code / Features
New fields added to CedarBox Development App Project Workflow Tab
We’re rolling out a few changes to Cedar 7 installations this month. Some are behind the scenes improvements to MailHarvest and file attachment listings. However, some changes will be a little more obvious: New Workflow Fields We’ve been working with Central Coast Nations referrals coordinators (Vern, Peter, Dani, Andrea) and with Aaron Heidt (Marine Use…
Communities
Nuxalk Dawn
Stretching in the early morning light before a morning run last week in Bella Coola, I took this photo of a Nuxalk totem pole facing telephone lines. I was thinking about the privilege we have to be helping build data management capacity in this ancient, and at the same time, youthful community. Besides running and a little…
Communities
Wuikinuxv Nation July Training
In July 2015, Greg and I visited the beautiful village of Wuikinuxv alongside the Wannock River in Rivers Inlet. We were there to upgrade the Wuikinuxv’s CedarBox server and to provide training on two apps: Cedar Development App (for tracking and analyzing Crown referrals) and CCIRA Marine Indigenous Laws App (for archiving and reviewing historical…
Features
Live-Link: connecting Projects tracking to GIS
In a novel example of having your herring roe and eating it too, the CedarBox Team is pleased to announce that DevelopmentApp Projects can now be “live-linked” to your desktop GIS. What does this linking between my Cedar App and my desktop GIS mean? Let’s say you are tracking 500 project applications, and that you have…
Communities
Heiltsuk Nation CedarBox Training
In May 2015, Greg and I visited beautiful Bella Bella and worked with Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department (HIRMD) staff on development applications (Projects) procedures, tracking and analysis.
Features
9x Redundant = Highly Secure
I thought this photo was funny, and clearly someone else thinks redundancy is important! We never want to see your business, cultural and natural resources data lost in fire, flood or theft. Redundancy is a term meaning duplication. If it is duplicated, it is safe and will always be available. In our wise practices setup, we…
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CEDAR has been invaluable to the Metlakatla Stewardship Office staff for organizing, tracking, and assessing projects referred to us from all levels of government. The tool has become an integral part of our consultation management system, and continues to grow to meet the demands placed on our staff from an increasing number of proposed developments in Metlakatla territory
Anna Usborne & William Nelson, Metlakatla First Nation
