Description: A community of practice for people who review metadata, so that the standards across the USGS are consistent.
Points Of Contact: Fran Lightsom, flightsom@usgs.gov
Meetings: First Monday of each month, 2pm - 3pm Eastern Time
Membership: If you are interested in joining this group, sign up at https://listserv.usgs.gov/mailman/listinfo/cdi-metadatareviewers.
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Purpose
The purpose of this group is to develop a community of practice for people who review metadata, so that the standards across the USGS are consistent. This group will enable new people to this role to learn from people who are experienced metadata reviewers. The point of contact for questions is Fran Lightsom, flightsom@usgs.gov.
Regular meetings are held the first Monday of each month, 2pm - 3pm Eastern Time. 703-648-4848 (or 1-855-547-8255) code 64914.
See Meetings page for video technology.
Member Introductions
On our Member Introductions page, please add a paragraph about your work with metadata reviews, to assist other community members in finding colleagues who are also dealing with particular issues.
Metadata Reviewers Forum
Please feel free to use the Metadata Reviewers Forum to ask questions or to initiate new discussions with this group.
Meeting notes
Notes from our meetings are at the page Meetings of the Metadata Reviewers Community
Training Materials: Reviewer Training & Metadata Author Training
Please contribute your center's training materials by linking them to the page Metadata Reviewers Training Collection
Data & Metadata Review Examples and Templates
This Community of Practice has started to collect resources for performing metadata and data reviews:
2016 CDI Virtual Training: Reviewing Metadata
Presented by Peter Schweitzer and VeeAnn Cross, August 11, 2016. Includes Webex recording, links to online resources, Q&A page.
California Water Science Center Data Release Review Template
This template was provided by Kathryn Crepeau and Ryan Mesmer from the California Water Science Center on Tuesday, August 6, 2019.
Dakota Water Science Center Metadata Review Checklist
This metadata review checklist was updated in February 2017
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center Data Review Guidelines
This template was provided by Arnell Forde and Joe W. Carroll, III from the St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center on Wednesday, August 17th, 2016.
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center Metadata Review Guidelines
The document linked above includes items that Arnell Forde looks for when conducting metadata reviews (provided Wednesday, August 17th, 2016). Please note that the document is not a template. It is just a list of items to consider during a review.
St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center Webpage, Data and Metadata Review Guidelines
This is an example of a document that Heather sends out to people who are doing a Data Release data review. At St. Petersburg Coastal and Marine Science Center, they construct a development web page to check the data and help with the review. When the review is done, the DOI will be adjusted to point to the real webpage. (Description and document provided by Joe W. Carroll III on Wednesday, August 17th, 2016).
Woods Hole Science Center Data and Metadata Review Template & Example
This template for data and metadata review was provided by VeeAnn Cross on Wednesday, August 17th, 2016
References
- USGS FSP site:
- USGS Data Management site:
- CSDGM Workbook (FGDC, Version 2.0, May 1, 2000).
- Documenting Esri data sets with metadata (USGS Office Of Enterprise Information/Enterprise GIS)
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1 Comment
Dawson, Cian B.
I don't know what the criteria are for resources to be included on this page, but I'd like to share our guidelines for review of numerical groundwater flow and transport models for release. Our overall guidelines include details on prep of the data, creation of metadata, and instructions for reviewers.