Submit-ready Indiana SHAARD site forms
in minutes, not days
Indiana's Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology (DHPA) requires archaeological reports and site forms to be submitted digitally through SHAARD (the State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database); hard-copy and handwritten forms are no longer accepted. FieldTap keeps your field records organized and export-ready to feed SHAARD.
Why state forms break every other tool
Every state has its own paper site form. Indiana's is Indiana SHAARD site forms — a fixed PDF layout Indiana DHPA expects to receive exactly as published. Generic field tools give you two bad options: rebuild the form by hand in their form builder (and still retype results into the official PDF), or pay for a professional services engagement to digitize each form.
Either way, every revision the agency publishes restarts the cycle. CRM firms end up paying for software and still doing the typing.
Import once. Map once. Done forever.
Report Builder is the only feature on the market that lets a CRM firm digitize a state's official PDF form themselves — no professional-services bill, no rebuilding the form by hand. Map the fields once and every record auto-exports a submit-ready Indiana DHPA PDF for the life of your firm.
Forms covered for Indiana
FieldTap ships with Report Builder templates for the official Indiana Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology forms below. Use them as-is, customize them, or import your own variant.
The archaeological site record submitted digitally through SHAARD by a qualified archaeologist.
The records check or Phase Ia report submitted in SHAARD; all fields must be completed digitally.
Required map attachment locating the site with coordinates.
What Indiana DHPA reviewers expect
- Site forms must be submitted digitally in SHAARD — hard-copy and handwritten forms are no longer accepted, so clean digital records matter.
- A site number is requested from DHPA on discovery — FieldTap supports placeholder numbers swapped on export.
- Coordinates must agree across the record, map, and any GIS deliverable — FieldTap generates all three from one record.
- Section 106 review under the NHPA drives most Indiana CRM fieldwork; consistent digital records reduce revision cycles.
Indiana SHPO FAQ
How does FieldTap fit Indiana's SHAARD workflow?
FieldTap is where you record sites in the field. Because Indiana requires everything digitally in SHAARD, FieldTap's clean, exportable records — location, attributes, GPS-tagged photos — make that entry fast instead of a re-keying exercise.
Does FieldTap handle site numbering?
Yes. Crews record with placeholder numbers; once DHPA assigns the site number you update the record and exports refresh.
Does this work offline?
Yes. Recording, GPS, and photos run fully offline. Sync and export require connectivity.
Can we map an Indiana site form PDF?
Yes. Report Builder accepts any PDF, including internal QA forms.
What about GIS deliverables?
Shapefile, GeoJSON, and CSV come from the same record as the PDF, so coordinates and attributes always agree.
Map Indiana SHAARD site forms once. Submit forever.
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