Supply federal expertise for resolving data, policy, standards and technical issues related to cross-government information sharing Share project results nationwide. Final report and Powerpoint presentations of each project will be posted at the FGDC website within the next few weeks. Conformance to external standards was perceived as curtailing local control, however, the modification of those standards for local use increased the sense of local control. Dr. Harvey felt that the Kentucky research could be extrapolated to other states, however, he thought that states would vary due to data theme. Due to lack of time at meeting full discussion on this topic will be deferred to the next coordination group meeting.
Work continues to get agreements in place and establish finance teams.
Coordination Group should ensure that appropriate individuals in their agencies, particularly, be made aware of the startup of this initiative. A skeletal metadata record at the organizational level was created for each survey entry indicating the theme, area of coverage and contact information. Over time it is hoped that state or regional organizations will take the responsibilities to maintain and expand these entries as complete dataset-level metadata. All except 7 unresolved items were incorporated into the draft text. Several of the unresolved items were need to be addressed at a higher level.