Resources for Map Sources and Errors

Metadata Resources

• Tools at Olympic Clearinghouse.
• FGDC site
  • Content Standard for Metadata
  • Clearinghouse status
  • Web based metadata entry into Federal Clearinghouse (not for trial use...)
• National States Geographic Information Council resource on metadata; maintained at Wisconsin Office of State Cartographer by Hugh Phillips - a review of metadata tools.
  • his review of the public-domain tkme (USGS: Schweitzer)
• Metadata (for all Government functions) is a theme across the world: The Dublin Core (international effort for consistent metadata); UK efforts.

Papers on Data Quality Testing

Completeness test done on Digital Chart of the World (Norway)

Version of 21 January 2004