Partners Providing Public Access
The Library’s Role in the PASDA Partnership

• Standardized metadata is the backbone of the Spatial Data Library
• Makes possible a catalog of available data
• Describes content and relevance of data
• Allows integration into larger scale services
• Documents authenticity and reliability
• Provides necessary usability information
• Identifies distribution mechanisms

• No sense of need

• Resistance to data sharing

• Lack of cataloging skills

• Quantity of undocumented data

• Create relationships with data producers

• Overall benefits of participation

• Organizational benefits of metadata

• Provide basic guidance about metadata

• Gather information about data

• Metadata creation

• Review with data provider

• Changes and additions

• Validation and XML mark-up

• Incorporate into Web site and index

• Continue relationships

• Tools for update

• Validation of updates

• Pursue additional sources

• Doesn’t reinvent the wheel

• Wide variety of participants

• Direct input of professional users

• Increased value on data documentation

• Support from broad governmental base