METADATA/Clearinghouse
Workshop
Grays Harbor Area Workshop October 29th, 1999
Grays Harbor Community College
Aberdeen, WA
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METADATA/Clearinghouse
Workshop Grays Harbor Area Workshop October 29th, 1999 Grays Harbor Community College Aberdeen, WA |
| Tentative Agenda | ||
| The WAGIC Clearinghouse Initiative An overview of the statewide Clearinghouse initiative for spatial data and an explanation of how the metadata figures in. |
8:30 | |
| The FGDC Metadata Content Standard
(MCS) A brief overview of the MCS with emphasis on a basic subset to initiate your organizations data description efforts. |
9:00 | |
| Selecting Collection Tools An overview of three types of metadata collection tools that will be available for use in the afternoon session: a word processing based template, a web based tool, and a standalone MS Access based tool. These tools facilitate the collection of MCS compliant metadata to varying degrees of sophistication. The type of tool you pick and how you apply it should reflect your organization’s needs. |
9:45 | |
| Mapping Your Metadata to MCS Utilizing the data description information you brought to the workshop (see 'price of admission'), you match up your data descriptions with the correct MCS fields. Assistance from workshop sponsors will be available. |
10:45 | |
| Lunch Break - Lunch break (no-host) at a nearby eating facility. | Noon | |
| Creating Metadata With Your Choice of
Tools Using your choice of collection tools (above) and the data description information you brought to the workshop, you create metadata for posting to the Washington State Spatial Clearinghouse Node. |
1:00 | |
| Editing Metadata Using CNS & MP These clearinghouse utilities 'test' the metadata description and generate the files needed by the Clearinghouse server. |
2:00 | |
| Posting Your Metadata to the
Clearinghouse Node Access the Clearinghouse server via the Internet and post/update you organizations metadata then query it through the national gateway. |
3:30 | |
| Close | 4:30 |