The project goal is to continue to reach
out to tribal organizations lacking established metadata programs to
aid metadata implementation. We have had a great amount of success with
involving Native American Tribes on the Colorado Plateau with metadata
training workshops and would like to continue providing this support to
them. This project will provide FGDC compliant metadata creation
training to tribal governments within the Colorado Plateau region for
the maintenance of geospatial and environmental datasets. We will
accomplish this through 1) training tribal GIS and natural resource
professionals with little or no experience in developing metadata, 2)
providing access to our registered clearinghouse for the publishing and
harvesting of metadata, and 3) working with institutions that are also
developing metadata to ensure we are building regional to national
competency in an efficient and effective manner, and 4) providing an
overview of other NSDI programs workshop participants can use and
interact with. The results of this project would not only support more
efficient internal resource management for tribes, but if willing to
share data resources, it would greatly aid the development of the
National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). As part of the NSDI,
The National Map, is lacking information for rural areas where many
Native American Reservations are located. The Colorado Plateau
encompasses several rural areas governed by Native American
communities, some of them being quite large such as the Navajo
Nation.
Project PowerPoint Presentation
Merriam-Powell Center for Environmental Research
Contact:
Neil Cobb Ph.D., MPCER Director
928-523-5528
neil.cobb@nau.edu