WORKSHOPS

Duration: 1 day

Abstract:
Basic metadata concepts, explaining how metadata can be made easy. Basically a workshop that will allow the user at the end of it to document his/her own datasets, to use metadata tools, to use the FGDC workbook and realize that after all, it is not that difficult.

Costs:
The training is basically free, sometimes the client may incur in to travel expenses.

Tools:
Metadata template (word document or text only), Metamaker, Chew and Spit (CNS), Metadata Parser (MP) and others

Disciplines:
Fluent in Spanish, Geographic Information Systems, Texas/Mexico Border datasets, Natural Resources.

Experience:

Metadata overview, TNRIS, Austin Texas, April 1998
Metadata made easy, GIS Forum, Austin Texas, January 1999
Metadata made easy, IBWC, El Paso, Texas, March 1999
Don't duck metadata, HGCOG, Houston, Texas, August 2000
Don't duck metadata, HGCOG, Houston, Texas, August 2000
Don't duck metadata, HGCOG, Monterrey, Mexico, September 2000

Limitations: none

Contact Information:
1700 N. Congress Ave. Room B-40
Austin, TX 78741-3231
USA
organization: Texas/Mexico Borderlands Information Center (BIC)
work phone: 512.463.8399
mobile phone: 512.496.9444
fax: 512.463.7274
email: mpavon [at] bic.state.tx.us
website: http://www.bic.state.tx.us