Training for creation of formal metadata
	Information Resources

Contents

• Organizations
• Clearinghouse nodes
• Software tools and technical information
• People
• Newsgroups and email lists

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC)

NSDI is a national effort led by FGDC to make spatial data resources available and usable for research and decision support.

• FGDC home page
  <URL:http://www.fgdc.gov/>

• FGDC Clearinghouse home page
  <URL:http://www.fgdc.gov/clearinghouse/>

USGS Geographic Data Committee (GSGDC)

GSGDC is the group that coordinates these activities for USGS.

• GSGDC home page
  

• USGS Manual chapter on spatial data exchange formats
  <URL:http://www.usgs.gov:8888/usgs-manual/500/504-1.html>

Geologic Division Information Council

The Division's IC has developed a plan for implementing the most directly useful parts of NSDI within the Division.

Central Region Geologic Information Committee

The purpose of the CRGIC is to coordinate activities and share information on spatial data, GIS, and related topics among GD personnel in the Central Region.

National States Geographic Information Council

NSGIC was created to encourage effective and efficient government through the coordinated development of geographic information and related technologies to ensure that information may be integrated at all levels of government.

• NSGIC home page
  <URL:http://www.geo.drake.edu/nsgic/>

• NSGIC Metadata Primer
  <URL:http://localis2.lic.wisc.edu/~dhart/metaprim.htm>

• Metadata mentoring workshop held by Wisconsin Land Information Association
  <URL:http://badger.state.wi.us/agencies/wlib/sco/workshop/workshop.htm>

• National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse Gateway
  <URL:http://fgdclearhs.er.usgs.gov/>

• Division clearinghouse node
  <http://geo-nsdi.er.usgs.gov/>

• Formal metadata tools and information by Peter Schweitzer
  <URL:http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/>

• Metadata in plain language
  <URL:http://geology.usgs.gov/tools/metadata/tools/doc/ctc/>

• Hugh Phillips's metadata tool reviews
  <URL:http://badger.state.wi.us/agencies/wlib/sco/metatool/mtools.htm>

• FGDCMETA AML procedure by Dan Nelson (Illinois State Geological Survey)
  <URL:http://www.isgs.uiuc.edu/nsdihome/webdocs/fgdcmeta.html>

• Curtis Price's advice to GIS users in USGS-WRD: Creating FGDC-standard metadata in the post-DOCUMENT era <http://wwwsd.cr.usgs.gov/~cprice/archelp/metadata.htm>

• Principal technical contacts within GD

  Name	email	Location
  Peter Schweitzer	pschweitzer@usgs.gov	Reston
  Randy Schumann	rschumann@usgs.gov	Denver
  Steve Schilling	sschilli@usgs.gov	Vancouver

• FGDC contacts

  Name	email	role
  John Moeller	jmoeller@usgs.gov	Staff director
  Doug Nebert	ddnebert@usgs.gov	Clearinghouse coordinator

• Newsgroups:
  • usgs.nsdi
  • usgs.gis
  • comp.infosystems.gis

• Email lists:
  • NSDI-L
    <URL:http://www.fgdc.gov/publications/documents/discussion/nsdil.html>

  • GD-GIS
    <URL:http://greenwood.cr.usgs.gov/usgs/gdgis.html>