Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project FGDC Metadata Examples
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With the increased popularity spatial data and an estimate that over ninety percent of all the business the Bureau of Land Management conducts has some sort of spatial aspect, documentation of the data holdings in an effort to reduce redundancy was necessary. One step toward achieving this goal was Executive Order 12906 (April 1994), which required that all federal agencies "shall document all new geospatial data it collects or produces, either directly or indirectly, using the standard under development by the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC), and make that standardized documentation". Once the FGDC standard was agreed upon, a common terminology for data attributes was in place, therefore allowing geospatial data users a common language to communicate. But with the Executive Order and FGDC Standard came confusion as to what are appropriate values to populate metadata.
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| The following pages were developed as a tutorial to aid users in correctly completing FGDC compliant geospatial metadata.
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| The Federal Geographic Data Committee Standard is divided in to seven primary sections, each devoted to a specific theme. This following image provides an initial framework of the standard.
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| Remember, the following pages are only presented as only a guide to aide users in the development of FGDC compliant metadata. When available specific metadata from the ICBEMP project was used.
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| In addition to this site, several other web sites exist that explain FGDC metadata content and appropriate values. When in question the FGDC is the authority on all metadata related questions.
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| FGDC's Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata USGS Biological Resources
USGS NOAA
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| Much of the content for the following pages was gleaned from other sources including Spatial Metadata Management System (SMMS) Software, the USGS Biological Resources "Image Map of the Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata", and of course the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC).
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