Welcome to the Geography 458 Metadata Excellence Competition!
We will divide among tables in the Collaboratory and ...
Let the Games Begin!
The overall question will be:
Does this site provide enough to judge fitness for use?
Each team will score 3 (three) web-based clearinghouses on two
scales
- Technical Score (0.0 - 6.0)
The basics: what, where, when, why
Data Quality issues raised
Availability of reference maps, illustrations, sample maps, etc.
- Artistic Score (0.0 - 6.0)
Design of site, graphics, sizzle, etc.
Score how the site worked for you, Is it Art?
Following the scoring exercise we will have the MEDALS round
grouping all results
Select your three sites by following some of the
following links:
(spend maybe five minutes looking for each, then 10 to explore
and score it)
Save each site as a Bookmark for us to show it on the overhead...
Entry to the NSDI Clearinghouses
USGS Node of NSDI
A NASA node CIESIN in Michigan
A one-product site created at MIT for Ortho-Photos
in the Boston area
Alexandria Digital Library
Our own Olympic
Peninsula Node
European Union activity
MEGRIN : a coodination
project with a metadata service GDDD:
Geographic data description directory
a sample
product description: Is this adequate to judge fitness for use?
United Kingdom: NGDF their
coordination group
"Key"
dataset descriptions
Geographical Data
Standards directory
CEN TC
287 (European Geographical Data Standards group)
Tutorial on Clearinghouses