Clearinghouse

Statewide Geographic Extent

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

 1997 Cooperative Agreements Program

The National Spatial Data Infrastructure

(NSDI) Cooperative Agreements Program was

established by the Federal Geographic Data

Committee (FGDC) to help form partnerships

with the non-Federal sector that will assist in

the evolution of the NSDI. This program

provides funding for cooperative agreements NYS Archives and Records Administration; NYS

to State and local government agencies,

institutions of higher education, and private

organizations. The goal is to encourage

resource-sharing projects through the use of

technology, networking, and more efficient

interagency coordination.

For further information, contact the FGDC

Secretariat, c/o U.S. Geological Survey, 590

National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192;

telephone 703-648-5514; facsimile 703-648-

5755; or Internet gdc@usgs.gov.

The 1997 Program

In September 1997, the FGDC completed issuing

awards for the fourth year of the program. The

thirty-seven cooperative agreements totaled

$1,255,000. These awards support the

development and implementation of the National

Geospatial Data Clearinghouse (NGDC) for

finding and accessing geospatial data, the

development and promulgation of FGDCendorsed standards in data collection,

documentation, transfer, search and query, the

development and creation of a National

Geospatial Data Framework, the development

and implementation of educational outreach

programs to increase awareness and

understanding of the NSDI, and the formation of

statewide or regional geographic information

coordination mechanisms. A brief program

summary follows which includes the list of

participating agencies and contact information for

the project director.

Colorado Geographic

Information Coordinating

Committee Metadata

Clearinghouse

The Colorado Geographic Information

Coordinating Committee and it’s collaborators

will establish a National Geospatial Data

Clearinghouse node on the Internet. This node training sessions will also be conducted to

will provide access to GIS metadata for Colorado educate GIS users and data developers in New

municipalities, county, state and federal agencies, York State about the NSDI. 

universities and citizens.

Collaborating Organizations: Colorado

Geographic Information Coordinating

Committee (GICC) Bureau of Land Management; U.S. EPA, Region 8; Natural Resources

Conservation Service; Douglas County

Government

Principal Contact: Michael Whatley, GIS

Coordinator, Colorado Department of Natural

Resources, 1313 Sherman, Room 423, Denver,

Colorado 80203; telephone 303-866-2237; fax

303-866-3415; mike.whatley@state.co.us

Cornell University Geospatial

Data Clearinghouse Node

The Mann Library and its partners will design,

implement, and maintain a National Geospatial

Data Clearinghouse node. The clearinghouse will

provide enhanced access to metadata and data

generated by the collaborating agencies, as well

as to resources already available in the Mann

Library collection. 

Collaborating Organizations: Cornell

University, Mann Library, USDA-NRCS,

Cornell University Agriculture Experiment

Station; New York State Department of

Environmental Conservation

Principal Contact: Katherine Chiang, Head,

Public Services, Mann Library, Cornell URLs and other protocols for handling metadata

University, Ithaca, New York 14853-4301;

telephone 607-255-7957; facsimile 607-255-

0381; ksc3@cornell.edu

New York State GIS

Clearinghouse and Geospatial

Metadata Repository 

The New York State GIS Clearinghouse project

is a public, private, and academic collaborative

effort to design, develop, and implement a GIS

clearinghouse for New York State. The

clearinghouse will include a geospatial metadata

repository as well as serve as an overall GIS

information resource center. Workshops and

Collaborating Organizations: New York State

Office for Technology; New York State Library;

Dept of Environmental Conservation; NYS

Department of Transportation; NYS Office of

Real Property Services; Center for Technology in

Government, University at Albany

Principal Contact: Bruce Oswald, New York

State Office for Technology, State Capitol,

Albany, NY 12224; telephone 518-473-5622;

fax 518-473-3389; oswaldb@emi.com

Improved Tools for Utilizing

Digital Orthophoto Metadata

This project enhances the 1995 clearinghouse

effort by, (a) providing a web-based interface for

browsing and downloading 1 meter color digital

orthophotos (and metadata) developed by the

Massachusetts Coastal Zone Management, (b)

developing a more general form of the browser

and metadata management tools, and (c)

providing educational materials and workshops

that help a wide audience of state, local and

community groups and citizens to use the

clearinghouse node. The enhanced ortho browsing

and metadata tools will enable (a) appropriate

handling of metadata and image browsing for

multiple sets of orthos that cover overlapping

areas at different times, (b) standardization of

and imagery when orthos are spread across

multiple servers, © dynamic generation of

metadata for ortho snippets downloaded during

the browsing process, and (d) use of the same

basic approach for orthos having different scale

and bit depth (e.g., 24-bit interleaved color with 1

meter pixels instead of the 8-bit 1⁄2 meter pixels

used for the earlier Boston metro ortho project).

Collaborating Organizations: Massachusetts

Institute of Technology; MA Executive Office

of Environmental Affairs, EOEA Data Center

and Coastal Zone Management
Clearinghouse

Local/Regional Geographic Extent

Principal Contact: Joseph Ferreira, Jr., MIT, Collaborating Organizations: The University

Urban Studies and Planning Department, of Connecticut; State of CT Department of

Planning Support Systems Group, Room 9- Environmental Protection; U.S. Fish and

514, 77 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, Wildlife Service

MA 02139; telephone 617-253-7410; fax 617-

253-3625; jf@mit.edu

Establishing an Arizona Node on 06269-1133; telephone 860-486-3337; fax

the National Geospatial Data 860-486-5381; sschulte@gris.grad.uconn.edu

Clearinghouse

The project collaborators will create an Arizona

Clearinghouse node that will serve metadata and

will serve as a model for other organizations to

create their own clearinghouse nodes within the

State. Training will be conducted, and hands-on

assistance provided for agencies to document

metadata, and to implement compatible

distributed NSDI clearinghouse nodes.

Collaborating Organizations: Arizona State

Land Department; Arizona Geographic

Information Council, Arizona Land Resource

Information System, Arizona State University

Information Technology Center for

Environmental Studies; University of Arizona

Advanced Resource Technology Program; AZ

Game and Fish Department; Pima County Dept

of Transportation Technical Services

Principal Contact: Eugene Trobia, State

Cartographer, Arizona State Land

Department; Arizona State Cartographer’s

Office; 1616 West Adams Street, Phoenix, AZ

85007; telephone 602-542-4060; fax 602-542-

2600; gtrobia@lnd.state.az.us

Establishing a National

Spatial Data

Infrastructure

Clearinghouse Node for 

Connecticut

This project will create metadata for the 14,000+

geodata files on the University of Connecticut’s

Map and Geographic Information Center’s

(MAGIC) server, and create a process for the

continued population of geospatial metadata.

This includes hydrographic, wetlands inventory,

soils and coastline data, as well as bathymetric

and other coastal geodata that will be acquired

from the Long Island Sound Archives. This

project will be cooperating with the National

Undersea Research Center at Avery Point for the

documentation of their data holdings. Also, this

project will develop an on-line hypertexted

tutorial that focuses on using spatial metadata,

and helping users understand the utility and

quality aspects of a geographic data base by

making full use of the descriptive value of

metadata.

Principal Contact: Sandy Schulte, The

University of CT, Research Foundation, U- Resources Agency, the County of Santa Cruz, the

133, 483 Whitney Road Extension, Storrs, CT

Alaska State Geospatial

Clearinghouse

This project will establish a National Geospatial

Data Clearinghouse node at the Alaska

Department of Natural Resources that

complements the NSDI clearinghouse site

established at the Alaska Field Office of the U.S.

Geological Survey. This new node will focus on

the documentation and distribution of state and

local data. A training program will be established

with workshops held to facilitate metadata

documentation and data sharing.

Collaborating Organizations: Alaska

Department of Natural Resources; Alaska

Department of Environmental Conservation,

Alaska Department of Fish and Game

Principal Contact: Richard McMahon, DNR

Land Record Information Section, AK DNR,

3601 C Street, Suite 916, Anchorage, AK

99503; telephone 907-269-8836; fax 907-563-

1497; richm@dnr.state.ak.us

Central Coast Joint Data

Committee Metadata and

Clearinghouse Project

This project will use the Central Coast of

California as a testbed for extending the FGDC

metadata and clearinghouse models as adapted

by the California Geographic Information

Association down to the regional and local level.

Member agencies of the Central Coast Joint Data

Committee and the Association and Monterey

Bay Governments will document their legacy

data sets and establish an NSDI clearinghouse

node at the California State University at

Monterey Bay to provide public access to both

metadata and the public domain data sets that are

available for the region. Additional Internet tools

and training sessions will be added to allow online analysis and map creation to facilitate access

by participating agencies and the public.

Collaborating Organizations: Association of

Monterey Bay Area Governments; California

Coastal commission; California State University

at Monterey Bay; the Monterey County Water

Monterey Bay National Marine

Sanctuary/NOAA; the California Geographic

Information Association; Central Coast Joint

Data Committee

Principal Contact: Jim Werle, GIS Analyst,

Association of Monterey Bay Area Governments,

Regional Association of Governments/Municipal

Planning Organization, P.O. Box 809, Marina,

CA 93933; telephone 408-883-3750; fax 408-

883-3755; ambag@mbay.net

North Carolina Local

Government Clearinghouse

Implementation Program:

Wake County & Municipalities

This project will implement a process at the

Center for Geographic Information and

Analysis (CGIA) for training and assisting

local governments in metadata documentation

using the Content Standards for Digital

Geospatial Metadata. The resultant data will

be served on the World Wide Web through the

(CGIA) clearinghouse node or a local

government node. Wake County metadata will

serve as an example to other counties and

municipalities with similar data sets pertaining

to land parcels, street centerlines,

infrastructure, election districts and land use,

among others. A website ‘how-to’ will be

constructed to assist local governments in

metadata creation and clearinghouse

participation. 

Collaborating Organizations: Center for

Geographic Information and Analysis, NC

Office of State Planning; Wake County

Geographic Information Services; City of

Raleigh GIS; Town of Cary, MIS Department

Principal Contact: Zsolt Nagy, Center for

Geographic Information and Analysis, North

Carolina Office of State Planning, 115

Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, NC 27603-1721;

telephone 919-722-3090; fax 919-715-0725;

zsolt@cgia.state.nc.us
Clearinghouse

Biological and/or Coastal Emphasis

San Luis Obispo Geographic 

Information Consortium

Metadata Clearinghouse Wasatch Front Growth Collaborating Organizations: University of

The San Luis Obispo Geographic Information

Consortium (SLOGIC) will establish a

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse node This project encompasses three major

at the California Polytechnic State University objectives based within the 7-County Wasatch

to support collaborative efforts among Front Region: (a) expanding the Utah

SLOGIC's 85 member organizations and National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse node

agencies and other GIS users in San Luis to include existing land use/land cover,

Obispo County, California. Project efforts will zoning, population & demographic and traffic

also emphasize outreach to GIS users and analysis zone data; (b) developing standards

policy makers by holding three types of formal and metadata for comprehensive, integrated

workshops: (1) workshops to train users on data layers for inclusion in the clearinghouse

the creation and use of metadata; (2) to support regional growth modeling efforts;

workshops to train the 'trainers' who will and, (c) implementing an educational

return to their place of work to train end- outreach program to explain the growth

users; and, (3) workshops for agency and planning information available through the

library staff who will be interfacing with the Clearinghouse and the importance of GIS

general public. technology, data sharing, and data

Collaborating Organizations: County of San

Luis Obispo, Information Services Division;

California Polytechnic State University; Collaborating Organizations: State of Utah,

Members of the San Luis Obispo Geographic Governor’s Office of Planning and Budget;

Information Consortium Utah Division of Information Technology

Principal Contact: John M. Wade, Director, Marine Research Institute's (FMRI) need to

Information Services Division, County of San document metadata for biological, chemical,

Luis Obispo, County Govt Ctr, Room 400, San and physical databases. The enhanced FSDLS

Luis Obispo, CA 93408; telephone 805-781- software tools will be used to systematically

5050; fax 805-781-1222; jwade@co.slo.ca.us catalog all of FMRI's relevant data sets and

Development of a Multiorganizational Regional

Clearinghouse Node for

Northeastern Illinois

The objective of this project is to establish a Principal Contact: Natalie Gochnour, State operational node of the National Geospatial

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse node of Utah, Governor’s Office of Planning and Data Clearinghouse.

for the Chicago metropolitan region and to Budget, 116 State Capital, Salt Lake City, UT

implement the collection of compliant 84114; telephone 801-538-1544; fax 801-538-

metadata to support this activity. To insure the 1547; ngochnou@state.ut.us

success and sustainability of the

clearinghouse, an educational outreach

program will be designed and implemented to

educate Chicago area agencies in the

Metadata Standard and to assist agencies in

developing metadata and making it available

on the new clearinghouse node. This project will establish a National

Collaborating Organizations: Northeastern

Illinois Planning Commission, University of

Illinois at Chicago

Principal Contact: Nina L. Savar, GIS mpiazza@fmri.usf.edu

Manager, Northeastern Illinois Planning

Commission, Research Services Department,

222 South Riverside Plaza, Suite 1800,

Chicago, IL 60606; telephone 312-454-0400

; fax 312-454-0411; Clearinghouse. 

nsavar@nipc.org

Planning Data Clearinghouse California White Mountain Research Station;

and Education Project Eastern Sierra Land Information Systems

documentation to support integrated regional

planning. 

Services; Utah Department of Environmental

Quality, Utah Department of Natural

Resources; Utah Department of Workforce

Services; Mountainland Association of

Governments; Wasatch Front Regional

Council; Davis County, Morgan County,

Saltlake County, Summit county, Tooele

County, Utah County Public Works, Wasatch

County, Weber County; Coalition for Utah’s

Future; State GIS Advisory Committee;

QGET GIS Working Group

Eastern Sierra Geospatial Data Bureau of Information Systems; Florida

Clearinghouse and Metadata Geographic Information Board; The Florida

Outreach Program State University; U.S. EPA

Geospatial Data Clearinghouse node at the

University of California’s White Mountain

Research Station and provide training

workshops to local agency representatives to

assist in the development of compliant

metadata. To encourage consistent data set

development for the entire region,

participating agencies will be provided the

opportunity to serve their GIS datasets and

associated metadata through the

Network; Environmental Systems Research

Institute, Inc.

Principal Contact: Susan Szewczak,

University of California, White Mountain

Research Station, 3000 East Line Street,

Bishop, CA 93514; telephone 760-872-4214;

fax 760-873-7830; susan@wmrs.edu

Establishing a National

Geospatial Clearinghouse

Node at the Florida Marine

Research Institute

This effort will build upon ongoing Florida

Spatial Digital Library System (FSDLS)

software development to meet the Florida

create metadata in accordance with the

Content Standards for Digital Geospatial

Metadata. This project will result in

institutionalizing the process of creating and

maintaining metadata for all of the Institute's

data holdings, and establishing FMRI as a

Collaborating Organizations: Florida

Department of Environmental Protection,

Florida Marine Research Institute; Florida

Department of Environmental Protection,

Principal Contact: Michelle Piazza, Florida

Department of Environmental Protection,

Florida Marine Research Institute, Coastal and

Marine Resource Assessment, 100 8 Avenue th

SE, St. Petersburg, Florida 33709; 

telephone 813-896-8626; fax 813-893-1679;
Educational Outreach

A National Geospatial Data

Clearinghouse of Biodiversity

Data and Policy Information of

the Southwest

The Institute of Public Law's Center for creation of an environmental geospatial data

Wildlife Law (CWL), at the University of New NSDI clearinghouse node for other students to

Mexico's School of Law will establish a share worldwide. The project deliverables will

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse of be a modified GIS software environment for

state biodiversity laws and policies and the students to build their GIS projects, and a

systematics, ecology, and life history of curriculum extension workbook designed to

mammals of the Southwest. Project This collaborative effort will develop further facilitate the development of an environmental

collaborators will adapt the existing data the University of Kansas GEMLab/KEIL's studies project-based GIS for K-12 students.

collections of the CWL and the Museum of National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse node

Southwestern Biology to the NBII standards as part of the prototype Inter-American

for biological data, and provide on-line search Geospatial Data Network. Biological resource

and retrieval of metadata and datasets of these metadata will be collected for two

collections. This will enable users to access, Mesoamerican regions: the Oaxaca region of

for the first time ever, not only the biological southern Mexico, and the Brunca Region of

information of a species of interest within a Costa Rica. To expand clearinghouse

specific location, but also the laws and policies participation and metadata preparation, a

that have an impact on that species. series of workshops will be held to provide

Collaborating Organizations: University of

New Mexico Institute of Public Law;

University of New Mexico Department of

Biology; Defenders of Wildlife; U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service, Region 2; Geraldine R.

Dodge Foundation Collaborating Organizations: University of

Principal Contact: Ruth Musgrave, Project The “Guide to NSDI Resources” for

Director, University of New Mexico, Institute geography teachers will provide information

of Public Law, Center for Wildlife Law, 1117 to help social studies and earth science

Stanford NE, Albuquerque, NM 87131-1446; Principal Contact: Paul M. Rich, GEMLab, instructors, and others, be more productive in

telephone 505-277-5006; fax 505-277-7064; University of Kansas, Center for Research, exploiting Internet accessible resources for

musgrave@unm.edu Inc., Kansas Biological Survey, Nichols Hall, particular teaching objectives. Targeted to a

Washington State Fish and

Wildlife Geographic Data

Clearinghouse

This project will create a fish and wildlife data thematic range of data, and varied media and

clearinghouse node for the State of levels of government sources of geospatial

Washington. Two basic data types will be data and metadata. The guidebook will be

included in the clearinghouse: fish and wildlife available via the WWW, CD-ROM, and in

species occurrence data, and GAP statewide printed form. 

vegetation mapping. Metadata will be

developed to conform to the Digital Geospatial

Metadata Content Standard and will be This project will develop a prototypical

merged into the existing Washington State approach for K-12 students to build a GIS of

Geospatial Metadata Clearinghouse. their local community through the integration

Collaborating Organizations: Washington

Department of Fish and Wildlife; USGS,

Biological Resources Division; University of

Washington

Principal Contact: James R. Eby, Washington

Department of Fish and Wildlife, Wildlife

Management Program, Wildlife Resource Data

Systems, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, transfer; (3) integrate the existing data with

WA 98501-1091; telephone 360-902-2512; the new data to form a fully comprehensive

fax 360-902-2162; ebyjre@dfw.wa.gov GIS of their region to be used to enhance the

Enhancement of a National

Geospatial Data

Clearinghouse Node for

Biological Resource 

 Geospatial Data

detailed hands-on training to representatives

of institutions holding additional geospatial

data resources for the two focal geographic

regions, and for both Costa Rica and Mexico

at large.

Kansas Center for Research, Inc.; USGS

EROS Data Center; Organization for Tropical

Studies

2291 Irving Hall Road, Lawrence, KS 66045; specific audience, the guide will demonstrate

telephone 913-864-7769; fax 913-864-7789; how teachers can search for, acquire, and

prich@oz.kbs.ukans.edu prepare geospatial data for a specific

Integrated K-12 GIS: The

Development of a Prototype

Application for Building an

Educational GIS

of various geospatial data sources. Students

will (1) acquire existing geospatial data of

their local region through the use of the NSDI

network-based clearinghouse; (2) build their

own locally-generated environmental

geospatial datasets within the context of a

widely used environmental curriculum and

according to the NSDI standards for data

collection, documentation, access and

analysis of critical environmental systems in

their communities; and, (4) facilitate the

Collaborating Organizations: Berkeley GeoResearch Group; Aquatic Outreach Institute;

San Mateo County Coastside Schools Creek

Monitoring/Education Project; University of

California, Berkeley

Principal Contact: Susan Lindell Radke,

Berkeley Geo-Research Group, 51 Crest View

Drive, Orinda, CA 94563; telephone 510-254-

0951; fax 510-254-0955; slradke@bgrg.com

A Guide to the Use of NSDI

Resources for Geography

Teachers

curriculum need. It will do this through five

examples, covering different geographic scales

from nation to school neighborhood, a great

Collaborating Organizations: University of

Maryland, Department of Geography; The

National Council for Geographic Education

Principal Contact: Dr. Derek Thompson,

Department of Geography, University of

Maryland, College Park, Maryland 29742;

telephone 301-405-4063; fax 301-314-9299;

dt11@umail.umd.edu
Educational Outreach to

Introduce and Promote the Use

of the Alabama Node of the

National Geospatial Data Collaborating Organizations: Illinois

Clearinghouse Department of Natural Resources; there are

The collaborators will develop an educational encourages the State data holders to set up

outreach program directed at several specific clearinghouse server nodes linked to the

groups of potential users of the Alabama Clearinghouse node at the Texas Natural

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse node. Resources Information System. It provides

A series of six workshops will be held to (a) hands-on instruction and technical assistance

either introduce or elaborate on, as appropriate for agencies in the use of the metadata tools

to the audience, the concepts of GIS and and installing the necessary Z-Server software

geospatial data, (b) present the concept of to enable them to connect to the already

FGDC-compliant metadata documentation and established Clearinghouse node at the Texas

promote its development, © acquaint Natural Resources Information System. This

participants with the NSDI and Clearinghouse project will result in a standardized

concepts, (d) provide training in using the mechanism for Texas government agencies to

Alabama clearinghouse node to search for and report their data through the Clearinghouse,

retrieve metadata records, and, (e) instruct in and establishes a state NSDI certification

the retrieval of geospatial data sets through the program that offers incentives and recognition

Clearinghouse and use of these data in GIS to agencies that participate in the program.

applications.

Collaborating Organizations: Geological Development Board; Texas Natural Resources

Survey of Alabama; State Oil and Gas Board Information System; Texas Geographic

of Alabama Information Council

Principal Contact: Berry H. Tew, Jr., convening a hands-on workshop at which Principal Contact: Scott Grant, The Texas

Geological Survey of Alabama, 420 Hackberry participants will create metadata with the Water Development Board, The Texas

Lane, P.O. Box O, Tuscaloosa, AL 35486- Instructor's guidance. Follow-up, on-site Natural Resources Information System, P.O.

9780; telephone 205-349-2852; fax 205-349- sessions will be conducted in agencies to Box 13231, Austin, Texas 78711; telephone 

2861; nick@sand.gsa.tuscaloosa.al.us provide professional/technical personnel any 512-463-7957; fax 512-

An Education and Outreach

Initiative for Illinois: Local

Ecosystem Partnerships Meet the Extending NSDI 

NSDI Metadata,

The Illinois Department of Natural Resources, experts that can help other organizations in

in collaboration with 15 Local Ecosystem Oklahoma, thereby ensuring the continued

Partnerships, will embark on the development growth and use of the Oklahoma This project will serve as an educational aide

and implementation of a GIS component clearinghouse. to extend and promote awareness and

within a new, innovative Ecosystems adoption of the NSDI metadata,

Partnership Program. This project will result clearinghouse, and framework concepts in

in education, implementation and training Arizona, Colorado, and New Mexico. A series

materials; ten workshops; and seminars at the of six customized workshops, and follow-on

Second Annual Ecosystems Partnership technical briefings will be held by the

conference on NSDI concepts (metadata, collaborators and presented to GIS

clearinghouse and framework). Emphasis will communities throughout the region. The goal

be placed on the documentation of all new data of the project is to extend FGDC's 'presence'

generated by the Partnerships, to be in in the region and to accelerate adoption of

compliance with the Content Standards for these NSDI elements.

Geospatial Metadata. The development of

NSDI materials designed to provide the broad

perspective, and tailored to a very large

untapped audience (public citizens,

landowners, and non-governmental

organizations, local and regional

organizations, students, and educators), will

promote the growth of the NSDI in the

coordination and collection of bio-ecological This project promotes the broad adoption and

information. use of existing metadata builder tools to

15 Ecosystem Partnerships involving over 26

organizations/agencies affiliates, and

hundreds of participants

Principal Contact: Sheryl Oliver, Illinois

Department of Natural Resources, Office of

Realty and Environmental Planning, 524

South Second, Springfield, IL 64704;

telephone 217-785-8586;

fax 217-785-8575

Training and Technical Assistance for

Creating and Cataloging Metadata

The project will provide hands-on technical

assistance to Oklahoma-based public and

private organizations for the development and

use of metadata compliant with the Content

Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata.

Ensuring a thorough understanding of

metadata will be accomplished through

additional technical assistance they need to 463-7274 ;

inventory and document their geospatial data sgrant@tnris.state.tx.us 

sets and to share that information through the

Oklahoma National Geospatial Data

Clearinghouse node. The long-term goal is to

create a larger pool of trained metadata

Collaborating Organizations: Oklahoma

State University; The Office of the State

Geographer, State GIS Council and its 14

state agency members, USGS Oklahoma

District

Principal Contact: Jayne Salisbury,

Oklahoma State University, 003 Life Sciences

East, Stillwater, OK 74078; telephone 405-

744-8443; fax 405-744-7673;

jsalis@seic.lse.okstate.edu

An Educational Outreach

Program for Populating the

National Geospatial Clearinghouse Node

for the State of Texas

document the geospatial data holdings of the

major data custodians in the state of Texas to

be in compliance with the Content Standards

for Digital Geospatial Metadata, and

Collaborating Organizations: Texas Water

Clearinghouse, and Framework Objective 

in the Four Corners Region

Collaborating Organizations: University of

New Mexico, Earth Data Analysis Center

Colorado Department of Natural Resources;

Arizona Geographic Information Council;

NM Geographic Information Council, Inc.

Principal Contact: Amelia Budge, Earth
Framework

Data Analysis Center, University of New County Assessment Counties; Washington State Department of

Mexico, Bandelier West Room 111, Office; The Township of Transportation

Albuquerque, NM 87131-6031; telephone West Bradford

505-277-3622 ext 231; fax 505-

277-361 4 ;

abudge@spock.unm.edu

Adams County, Illinois GIS Cadastral

Database Development

This project focuses on the development of

high-quality, low-cost cadastral base

information. Project collaborators will design

and build a user-friendly cadastral standardcompliant database system that will enable

Adams County and City of Quincy personnel

to begin the task of building the County’s

parcel base map in accordance with the NSDI

Cadastral Standard.

Collaborating Organizations: Adams County

Illinois Highway Department; City of Quincy

Public Works and Planning Departments;

Central Illinois Public Service; Ameritech;

Adams Telephone Co-op;

USDA Natural Resource

Conservation Service; Media

One; Adams Electrical Coop

Principal Contact: Dick Klusmeyer, Adams

County, Illinois, Adams County Highway

Department, 5200 East Broadway, Quincy, IL

62301; telephone 217-223-0614; fax 217-223-

9418; wgallahe@showboat.adams.net

Chester County Address Data Metadata standards and procedures to evolve existing

Standards Project disparate spatial transportation databases into

This project will develop and implement

metadata standards for county parcel address

data developed by municipalities within the

county. It will explore the FGDC data

standards as they pertain to address metadata;

derive an address data metadata standard and

define the basic elements of this standard that

must be maintained in conjunction with

address data. The collaborators will establish

methodologies for the creation of address

metadata that adheres to the FGDC standards.

Collaborating Organizations: Chester

Principal Contact: Jim Regional Council, Regional Planning

Walsh, GIS Data Manager, Chester County Agency/Metropolitan Planning Organization,

Assessment Office, Bureau of Land Records, 1011 Western Avenue, Suite 500, Seattle, WA

235 West Market Street, Suite 200, West 98104; telephone 206-464-6179; fax 206-587-

Chester, PA 19382-2914; telephone 610-344- 4825; gcioc@psrc.wa.com

6 4 86; fax 610-344-5211 ;

l_walsh@mail.co.chester.pa.us

Transportation Framework Data

Maintenance and Standardization in

Guildford County, NC 

The Guilford County GIS Consortium will

use its existing countywide digital street

centerline dataset to implement Geospatial

Data Framework principles for the

transportation data theme. FGDC Framework

concepts will be assessed for their technical,

operational and business feasibility as applied

to real-world multi-departmental application

needs.

Collaboratin g

Organizations: Guilford

County, North Carolina; City of Greensboro;

City of High Point

Principal Contact: Derrick D. Davis,

Guilford County, NC, Geographic

Information Systems Department, 201 South

Eugene Street, Greensboro, NC 27402;

telephone 910-373-7583; fax 910-333-6988

Refining and Promulgating Spatial

Transportation Data Standards to

Enhance Data Sharing in the Central

Puget Sound Region

This project will help to identify appropriate

a distributed integrated database for the

central Puget Sound region. Outcomes will

include: regional agreement on transportation

standards; procedures for evolving from

existing databases to a standard approach;

personnel trained in use of agreed upon

standards; workbook of procedures; and, an

integrated regional transportation database.

Collaborating Organizations: Puget Sound

Regional Council; King County; Pierce

County; City of Seattle; Snohomish County;

Washington Department of Transportation

Association of Washington Cities and

Principal Contact: Greg Cioc, Puget Sound
Standards Development 

and Implementation

Coordinating Groups

The Confusion of Public Land Ownership:

A Study of the Cadastral Framework in

Fremont and Sublette Counties, WY 

This project will investigate the accuracy of Long Range Planning, MS Automated that pertain to historical and

land ownership records for data base exchange Resource Information System, NC Office of prehistoric events.

using the cadastral data content framework. State Planning, OR State Service Center for

Eight Federal, state and local government GIS, Southeastern Library Network, VA

agencies have public lands in northwestern Council for Information Management, WVA

Wyoming. Each agency will produce their Office of the State GIS

records of ownership in the study area and use

the cadastral data content framework to

exchange files for land ownership verification.

Framework concepts will be evaluated for their

technical, operational and business feasibility

as applied to multi-level agency needs for

exchanging and using ownership data.

Collaborating Organizations: University of

Wyoming; Shoshone National Forest; BridgerTeton National Forest; Wind River BIA

Agency; Wyoming BLM State Office; This project will result in

Wyoming Game and Fish Department; the development of GIS

Wyoming State Land Office; Sublette County metadata elements that

Assessor; Fremont County GIS Coordinator; addresses the needs of rural

Wyoming Geographic Information Advisory water utilities. Using asCouncil built drawings and facility records, system

Principal Contact: William J. Gribb,

University of Wyoming, Spatial Data and

Visualization Center, Department of

Geography and Recreation, Box 3371, 207

A&S Building, Laramie, WY 82071; The scope of the effort is to identify barriers

telephone 307-766-3311; fax 307-766-2697; that exist to region wide collaborative GIS

planning@uwyo.edu data sharing in the Denver region, so that the

Establishing a Digital Library of Regional Council of Governments; Colorado

Geographic Information Standards and State Department of Local Affairs

Practices

This project combines the efforts of NSGIC,

the Southeastern Library Network, and the

Florida State University to establish digital

library of conventions, practices, procedures,

guidelines and standards

relevant to users of geospatial

data by designing and

implementing a digital library

containing a catalog of

standards that will compliment the FGDC

National Geospatial Data Clearinghouse. It

will also establish a distributed network of

information providers to keep the content of

the catalog current.

Collaborating Organizations: National States associated with the Content Standard for

Geographic Information Council (NSGIC); Digital Geospatial Metadata.

FL Geographic Information Board, Florida Cultural resources refers to

State University, GA GIS Advisory Council, the broad categories of

KY Office of GIS MN Office of Strategic and properties, places, and things

Principal Contact: David Stage, National Preservation Division; CO Historical Society;

States Geographic Information Council, 45 The University of Montana, Department of

Lyme Road, Suite 304, Hanover, NH 03755; Anthropology; The University of Arizona,

telephone 904-488-7986; fax 904-488-9837; Department of Archaeology Division;

staged@dms.state.fl.us Department of Museums, Library and Arts,

Rural Water System GIS

Standards Principal Contact: Mary Hopkins, Wyoming

attributes (ex. pipelines, reservoirs, pump

stations) will be labeled and integrated into a

GIS platform, which conforms to Content

Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata.

Effort will also demonstrate the integration of

the rural water system data elements with

other geospatial data sets, including the DOT

road track files; and, include the preparation

of a GIS implementation guide for rural water

utilities.

Collaborating Organizations: Planning and region-wide data clearinghouse. 

Development District III (regional council of

local governments), South Dakota; B-Y

Water District, South Dakota Department of

Transportation.

Principal Contact: Scott Henderson, Planner

III, and Jason Morrison, GIS

Analyst, Planning and

Development District III, Yankton

County Courthouse, P.O. 687, 3rd

and Broadway, Yankton, SD

57078; telephone 605-665-4408; fax 605-665-

0303; distiii@willinet.net

Creating a Cultural Resources Metadata

Standard for the Western United States

Eight western states are collaborating in an

effort to create a metadata standard for

cultural resources spatial information

Collaborating Organizations: Wyoming

State Historic Preservation Office; Earth Data

Analysis Center, University of NM; Santa Fe

Office of Cultural Affairs Historic

NV State Museum; ID State Historical

Society; UT Division of State History

State Historic Preservation Office, Wyoming

Cultural Records Office, P.O. Box 3431,

University Station, Laramie, WY 82071;

telephone 307-776-5324; fax 307-766-4262;

hopkins@uwyo.edu

Regional Data Sharing Forum

49 member governments of the Denver

Regional Council of Governments can pursue

NSDI goals that includes the creation of a

Collaborating Organizations: Denver

Principal Contact: William

Broderick, Denver Regional

Council of Governments,

Regional Agency, 2480 West 26th

Avenue, Suite 200B, Denver, CO 80211-5580;

telephone 303-480-6785; fax 303-480-6790;

drcog@iex.net

Establishment of a Geographic Information

Coordinating Body in Hawaii

This effort is aimed at the formal

establishment and recognition of a Hawaii

Geographic Information Coordinating

Committee.
The 1998 Program

An explanation of the 1998 NSDI

Cooperative Agreements Program and

application materials will be available

this fall. The open period for proposals

will be 90 days. As with the previous

programs, proposals must involve two or

more organizations with participants

providing matching funds or resources.

Formal announcement of the program

will be published in the Commerce

Business Daily and the Federal Register,

and also will be available through the

FGDC homepage at http://www.fgdc.gov.

Collaborati n g

Organizations: State of Conducting Activities to Strengthen

Hawaii Office of Statewide Geographic Information

Planning; U.S. Fish and Coordination Mechanisms in Iowa

Wildlife Service, Pacific

Islands Ecoregion; National Park Service,

Pacific Island System Support Office

Principal Contact: Craig Tasaka, Hawaii

Office of Planning, Planning and Geographic

Information System Program, P.O. Box 2359,

Honolulu, HI 96804; telephone 808-587-2894;

fax 808-587-2824; ctasaka@dbedt.hawaii.gov

Nevada Geographic Information Council

Development Project

The end goal of this project is the

implementation of a permanent digital Principal Contact: Kevin Kane, Iowa

geographic data coordination body for Nevada. Geographic Information Council, Iowa State

Collaborating Organizations: Nevada State

Mapping Advisory Committee; Washoe County

Planning; USGS Water Resources Division;

U.S. Bureau of Land Management; Natural

Resources Conservation Service

Principal Contact: Jon Price, Director/State

Geologist, Nevada Bureau of Mines and

Geology, University of Nevada - Reno, MS

178, Reno, NV 89557-0088; telephone 702-

784-6691 ext 126; fax 702-784-1709;

jprice@nbmg.unr.edu

Formation and Development of the

Allegheny GIS Consortium

The project goal is the development of an

identified source for GIS information and an

effective forum for GIS communication in

western Pennsylvania.

Collaborating Organizations: W.E.C.

Engineers, Inc.; Aerial Data Reduction

Associates, Inc.; Duquesne Light Company;

University of Pittsburgh; Carnegie Mellon

University

Principal Contact: Dr. Robert D. Regan,

W.E.C. Engineers, Inc., 1370 Washington

Pike, Suite 304, Bridgeville, PA 15017;

telephone 412-257-8774; fax 412-257-8815;

wecgis@usaor.com

The goal of this effort is to formalize the Iowa

Geographic Information Council within state

government, and establish an effective data

sharing environment among participating

organizations that fosters long term

commitment to and growth of the Council.

Collaborating Organizations: Iowa

Geographic Information Council; Intergovernmental Information Technology and

Telecommunications Committee; Iowa

Department of Information Technology

Services

University, 215 Durham, Ames, IA 50010;

telephone 515-294-0526; fax 515-294-1717;

kkane@iastate.edu