CAGIS received a grant along with the City of Charlotte and Mecklenburg County
as partners from the Federal Geographic Data Committee of the U.S. Geological
Survey. The grant seeks to increase the number of GIS professionals
trained in the production of metadata used to describe GIS data layers. In
December 2005 a "Train the Trainer" workshop was held where local GIS metadata
experts received instruction on how to conduct metadata training classes.
In the spring through fall of 2006 a series of metadata training workshops
open to regional GIS professionals will be offered. In addition, CAGIS'
server will be available to participating regional agencies to host metadata
records and GIS data layers.
For information on the FGDC metadata effort, click here.
For more information on CAGIS metadata grant contact:
Paul Smith, Technical Director
Center for Applied GISc, UNC Charlotte
9201 University City Blvd.
Charlotte, NC 28223
