AbstractHate Creating Metadata? Ask Your University Library for Help Track: Using GIS in Libraries and Museums Author(s): Adonna Fleming Often the biggest roadblock to making GIS data available to the public is that the creator of the project either does not have the time or the skills to create the metadata, a crucial component to making spatial data findable on GIS data portals. This paper describes how one academic library stepped in to help its campus community develop and distribute FGDC compliant metadata to their state's GIS metadata portal, http://www.dnr.ne.gov/databank/geospatial.html, for their GIS research projects. The paper will highlight the details of the University of Nebraska - Lincoln Libraries' GIS metadata program, which includes metadata training workshops using ArcCatalog and MP Batch Processor, one-on-one consultations, and a partnership with the School of Natural Resources Conservation and Survey Division to clean-up existing metadata. Adonna Fleming Univ. of Nebraska - Lincoln University Libraries 10 Bessey Hall University of Nebraska - Lincoln Lincoln , NE 68588 US Phone: (402) 484-0521 E-mail: dfleming2@unl.edu |