Geoscience metadata in USGS

Accomplishments worth celebrating

Where does the information come from?

Projects, teams, individuals
Needs editing for consistency
Care and feeding of metadata authors

The problem has changed

What's metadata?
Using the FGDC standard
Collating metadata records
Organizing and indexing the collection

Metadata structure and keywords in online data catalogs
Building a National Knowledge Bank for CMGP 23-Apr-2002
Peter Schweitzer, U.S. Geological Survey