Create Data Dissemination Guidelines

Data Dissemination & Coordination Guidelines

Priority Action High Level Plan

(Draft 9/14/99)

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Objective 2: IMPROVED DATA SHARING

Develop standards, guidelines and procedures for sharing geographic information among organizations. Utilize existing national standards where appropriate.

Priority Action Item:

Create data dissemination and coordination guidelines.

Description of Project: Provide a brief background and state the purpose of the project.

Potential Benefits: List the business benefits.

Maximize existing investments in data, information, and knowledge statewide.

Project Objectives: Describe the issues that will be addressed by this project.

Encourage data decimination and reuse

Promote consistent use of metadata

Support development and use of metadata

Project Tasks and Estimated Effort: Major tasks that need to be completed to accomplish objectives and a high-level estimate of required effort.

Tasks	Estimated effort
Task 1 - Investigate other states efforts/successes regarding data dissemination standards, guides, etc.
Task 2 - develop incentives to promote data sharing
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Potential Project Team Leader and Members:

Session Participants:

Chris Wright Benton County

Dann Borden Franklin County

Sandra Bahr WADNR

Jenny Stone UW Libraries

Glen Patrich WSDOH

Tom Nolan Seattle Public Utilities

Ian Von Essen Spokane County

Kim Gleason Klickitat County

Lori Anderson Klickitat County

Paul Rice Klickitat County