Metadata Education Project:

Development of a Course Material Package and Marketing Strategy
for the Geospatial Data Community

Project
Proposal		 Links to Metadata
educational materials		 Meeting Agenda
and attendees		 Meeting Results Education strategies
and suggestions

FGDC/UCGIS
Metadata Educational Materials Development
Scoping Meeting

June 3-5, 1999

Final Agenda

Attendees

DAY ONE

8:30 a.m. Welcome / Logistics (Jeff Hamerlinck, Barbara Poore)
8:45 a.m. Purpose of UCGIS Project (Jeff Hamerlinck)
FGDC / ISO "Big Picture" (Rick Pearsall, Barbara Poore)
9:15 a.m. Scoping Meeting Goals (Jeff Hamerlinck)

  • Define the target audience(s)
  • Define the educational setting(s)
  • Prioritize content based on goals 1 and 2
  • Define method and media
  • Define marketing strategy
  • Commitment from participants to review materials
9:30 a.m.Participant Introductions

9:45 a.m.Overview of Issues

Educational Issues (Jeff Hamerlinck)

  • Identifying audiences and tailoring needs to specific audiences
  • Identifying general and specific educational modules to meet needs of different audiences
  • Fitting metadata into various curricula
  • Pros/cons and costs associated with various types of methods
  • Incentives for teaching metadata and for documenting datasets
11:00 a.m. Content Issues: (Margo Herdendorf, Rick Pearsall)
  • FGDC standard, ISO standard: what changes, what differences
  • Core or essential metadata, and metadata profiles
  • Types of metadata tools for entry, management, and display/query
  • Creation of discrete metadata documents versus metadata databases
  • Series level, data set level and feature level metadata
  • Communicating/distributing metadata
1:15 pm 10-20 minute topical presentations:
Karen Kemp (UC Berkeley): GIS university curriculum
Steve Palladino (Ventura College): technical college curriculum
Derek Sorenson (Enabling Technologies): training and marketing
Randy Worch (ESRI): background about ESRI's metadata implementation
Bruce Westcott (consultant): management issues
Sharon Shin (USGS-BRD): NBII profile
David DiBiase (Penn State): distance learning GIS certificate program
3:15 p.m. Break
3:45 p.m. Presentation(s) continued.
5:00 p.m. Discussion on setting new direction for future educational materials, based on issues discussed throughout day
5:30 p.m. Adjourn

DAY TWO

The focus on Day Two will be to begin developing outlines for approaches to educational material development that match the specific audiences and targeted by this project.

8:30 a.m. Outline Break-Out Session Goals
8:45 a.m. Breakout Session: Small group development of audience- specific educational approaches. Participants will be given the choice which session they would like to attend. Sessions will start out with 15-20 minute topic- specific presentations by participants, followed by a discussion based on an outline of educational material content.

Three concurrent breakout sessions:

  1. Traditional curriculum integration (e.g., undergrad/grad semester course). Presentations: John Wilson (USC); Lyna Wiggins (Rutgers); Lynda Wayne (Louisiana State)
  2. Self-paced, independent learning (CDROM, Web-based Instruction). Presentations: Scott Barnwell (NPS); Hugh Philips (3001, Inc); Peter Schweitzer (USGS)
  3. Workshop training (workshops from half day to two days). Presentations: Nina Savar (Illinois Planning Commission); Ann Ball (NOAA); Amy Budge (New Mexico RGIS); Nancy Rader (LMIC)

Each breakout group will concentrate on how best to matching training methods and content with different levels of educational audiences in the various settings outlined above. Audiences include:

  1. Students—GIS pre-professional, students from other disciplines
  2. Managers— metadata justification
  3. Technical personnel—beginning (reading metadata), intermediate (creating metadata), advanced (metadata management/publication)
  4. Metadata educators— "train the trainer"
10:45 a.m. Break-Out Session Continued
1:15 p.m. Break-Out Session Continued
3:30 p.m. Break-Out Session Continued
5:00 p.m. Adjourn

DAY THREE

8:00 a.m. Presentations by break-out group facilitators, followed by discussion.
10:30 a.m. Group Discussion:
Product review mechanisms
Product marketing issues
Follow-up opportunities
11:45 a.m. Meeting Recap
12:00 p.m. Adjourn

June 3-5 Workshop Attendees


LYNDA WAYNE	
Research Scientist
Louisiana State University	
Coastal Studies Institute
331 Howe-Russell GeoSciences Bldg
Baton Rouge	LA	70803
504-388-3479
504-388-2520	
lwayne@lsu.edu


DAVID DIBIASE    
Penn State - World Campus
302 Walker Building
University Park, PA 16802
814-863-1790
dibiase@essc.psu.edu
Penn State's World Campus: a web-based GIS certificate program 

JOHN WILSON
University of Southern California
Department of Geography
Los Angeles, CA 90089-0255
213-740-1908
213-740-0050
Jpwilson@usc.edu
USC's GIS Distance Learning Certificate Program Other involvment: Montana local government metadata initiative; metadata for digital libraries 

HUGH PHILLIPS	
3001, Inc.
2810 NW 45th Ave.
Gainesville	FL	32605
hphillips@ibm.net
352-379-3001
Coauthor of the Metadata Primer, A "How To" Guide on Metadata Implementation 

NINA SAVAR
NE Illinois Planning Commission
222 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1800
Chicago	IL	60606
312-454-0401 x605	312-454-0411	nsavar@nipc.org


BRUCE WESTCOTT
Consultant
46 East State Street
Montpelier	VT	05602
802-223-7074 
802-223-7402	
bspatial@together.net
Metadata Workshop for the Fourth Annual Missouri GIS Conference 

ANN BALL
NOAA/Coastal Services Center
2234 South Hobson Avenue
Charleston	SC	29405-2413
843-740-1229
NOAA metadata training materials 

JOE SEWASH
West Virginia University
Dept. of Geology and Geography
425 White Hall PO Box 6300
Morgantown, WV 26506
304-293-5603
304-293-6522
jsewash@geo.wvu.edu



DAVID TULLOCH
Department of Landscape Architecture
Rutgers University
New Brunswick	NJ	08901
732-932-1581	732-932-1940	dtulloch@crssa.rutgers.edu	


BILL HUXHOLD
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Dept of Urban Planning, AUP, Room 334
PO Box 413
Milwaukee	WI	53201-0413
414-229-6954 414-229-6976	
hux@csd.uwm.edu


KAREN KEMP
University of California at Berkeley
Geographic Information Science Center
805-893-7094 
805-893-8617	
kemp@gisc.berkeley.edu


JEFF HOLM
Washington State Geographic Information Council 
Department of Information Services
WAGIC Coordinator
jeffh@dis.wa.gov
Washington State Geographic Information Council (WAGIC) metadata materials 

STEVE PALLADINO
Ventura College     
Previously from NCGIA (Santa Barbara)
805-654-6400x1365
spalladino@ventura.cc.ca.edu


SCOTT BARNWELL   (alternate for DAVID HART)
National Park Service
B102 Steenbock 
550 Babcock Dr.
Madison, WI 53706
608-265-3515
barnwell@students.wisc.edu


AMY BUDGE
University of New Mexico
Earth Data Analysis Center
Bandelier West Room 111
Albuquerque	NM	87131-6039
505-277-3622x231	505-277-3614	
abudge@spock.unm.edu


RGIS powerpoint presentations for Metadata Workshops





PETER SCHWEITZER
US Geological Survey, Geologic Division
906 National Center
Reston	VA	20192
703-648-6533		pschweitzer@usgs.gov


Metadata in plain language



DEREK SORENSON
Enabling Technologies
3200 George Washington Way, Suite D
Richland, WA   99352
206-729-1690 		dsorenson@enabletech.com
206-849-2058


Enabling Technologies is the developer of SMMS, 
the Spatial Metadata Management System.    





RANDY WORCH
ESRI Educational Services
Virtual Campus / Metadata Development
909-793-2853 x1710
rworch@esri.com


 


 


KRIS LARSON	
Montana State Library
Natural Resource Information System
1515 East Sixth Avenue
Helena	MT	59620
406-444-5691		klarson@nris.state.mt.us


Metadata/NSDI tools by NRIS







LYNA WIGGINS
Rutgers University
Center for Urban Policy Research
732-932-3133x568
lyna@rci.rutgers.edu







NANCY RADER   (alternate for CHRIS CIALEK)	
Minnesota Land Management Information Center
658 Cedar Street
St Paul	MN	55155
651-297-3281 651-296-1212	
nancy.rader@mnplan.state.mn.us


Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines



SHARON SHIN
USGS Biological Resources Division 
Denver, CO
Sharon_shin@usgs.gov
303-202-4230





JEFF HAMERLINCK
Spatial Data and Visualization Center
University of Wyoming 
307-766-2736 or 307-766-2532
itasca@uwyo.edu


Meeting facilitator

  



MARGO BERENDSEN 
Spatial Data and Visualization Center
University of Wyoming
307-766-2751
meh@uwyo.edu


Meeting facilitator





RICK PEARSALL
Federal Geographic Data Committee
703-648-4532
rpearsall@usgs.gov


Meeting facilitator





BARBARA POORE
Federal Geographic Data Committee
bspoore@usgs.gov