Hit the Ground Running with Metadata Training and Support for West Virginia

The Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute (RTI) staff at Marshall University developed a 2-day training workshop focused on GIS metadata in collaboration with the GIS community. Throughout the grant year, 2 workshops were held November 9-10 and December 7-8 at the Marshall University Graduate College campus and 1 workshop was held January 19-20 at the West Virginia GIS Technical Center. The announcement of the workshop schedule was emailed to the members of the West Virginia Association of Geospatial Professionals. The workshop was open to anyone who uses GIS and would like to learn about metadata. The central aim of these workshops was to give participants a new appreciation and understanding of the importance of metadata. The overall evaluation of all workshops was very positive. For metadata outreach assistance and continuous commitment, RTI created a Metadata Wiki website dedicated to metadata news and resources. The site will help form a collaborative online metadata community.

Final Report -- Wiki sites - wvmetadata.wikidot.com -- wvmetadata.wikispaces.com (will be consolidated into single site after user testing)

Interim Report

Project Introduction Presentation

Nick J. Rahall, II Appalachian Transportation Institute

Contacts:

Sang Hong Yoo, Research Associate
304-696-3376
syoo@njrati.org

 Tony Simental, WV GIS Coordinator
304-558-4218
Tony.A.Simental@WV.GOV

Craig Neidig, USGS WV Liaison
304-347-5130 x237
cneidig@usgs.gov

Eric Hopkins, WVGISTC, Analyst
304-293-9463
ehopkins@wvu.edu

Jennings Starcher, WVAGP President
304-558-5380
Jennings.N.Starcher@wv.gov

Kurt Donaldson, WVGISTC, Manager
304-293-9467
Kurt.Donaldson@mail.wvu.edu