Resources

Program Announcement No. 08HQPA0015
Issue Date: February 27, 2008
Closing Date & Time: March 31, 2008, Midnight (EDT)

Implementation Plan for the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (October 10, 2006) [PDF, 1.2 MB]

Metadata Templates

These metadata templates are provided for use by state geological surveys in responding to the Program Announcement from the National Geological and Geophysical Data Preservation Program (NGGDPP). The templates will help provide documentation about geological and geophysical data contained in collections held by the U.S. Geological Survey, state geological surveys, the Minerals Management Service, and the Bureau of Land Management so the information can be provided at several levels of detail in the National Digital Catalog. The purpose of the catalog is described in the NGGDPP Implementation Plan.

eXtensible Markup Language (XML)  format Template -[http://datapreservation.usgs.gov/docs/collectionMetadataExample.xml, 1KB]

Flat file (spreadsheet) Template - [http://datapreservation.usgs.gov/docs/collectionMetadataExample.csv, 1KB]

Metadata Profile for the National Digital Catalog, version 1.0 - [http://datapreservation.usgs.gov/docs/NGGDPPMetadataProfile.pdf, 150KB]

Further Resources / Background

• American Geological Institute,1998, National Geosciences Data Repository System Phase II; Final Report, January 30, 1995 to January 28, 1997: Performed Under Grant No. DE-FG22-95BC14833, Submitted to the Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 119 p.
  URL: http://www.osti.gov/bridge/servlets/purl/598388-Rrgmui/webviewable/598388.PDF
• American Geological Institute, 2003, National Geosciences Data Repository System Phase III; Implementation and Operation of the Repository, Final Report: Performed Under Grant No. DE-FG26-99BC-15115, submitted to the Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. Department of Energy, 42 p.
  URL: http://www.osti.gov/energycitations/servlets/purl/835232-GEowG1/native/835232.PDF
• American Geological Institute, 2006, Directory of Geoscience Data Repositories: Alexandria, Vir., American Geological Institute, available online at http://www.agiweb.org/ngdrs/overview/datadirectory.html.
• Association of American State Geologists, 2007, Data Preservation: Association of American State Geologists Position Paper available online at http://www.stategeologists.org/download.php?id=263.
• National Research Council, 2002, Geoscience Data and Collections—National Resources in Peril: Washington, D.C., National Academies Press, 107 p.
  URL: http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=10348
• Office of Management and Budget, 2002, Coordination of Geographic Information and Related Spatial Data Activities: Office of Management and Budget Circular No. A-16 Revised
  URL: http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/circulars/a016/a016_rev.html
• Steinmetz, John C. and Dickinson, Tamara L., 2007, Data Preservation; Old Samples Produce New Knowledge: American Geological Institute Geotimes, vol. 52, no. 3, p. 7.
  URL: http://www.geotimes.org/mar07/article.html?id=comment.html#author
• 2007 Data Preservation Program Announcement, funding opportunity no. 07HQPA0018
  URL: http://www07.grants.gov/search/search.do;jsessionid=HRKVQD2JFgvNGZLScMDt1pNKTQRxP4QpGHnp0tR2yG0Mhqlycyb9!167722395?oppId=13972&flag2006=true&mode=VIEW