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Northwest Environmental Data Network Meeting

March 5, 2008, 9:00 - 3:00

Northwest Power & Conservation Council
851 SW 6th Ave, Suite 1100
Portland, Oregon
503-222-5161 or 800-452-5161

Conference call arrangements:

Please dial 877-848-1997. You will then be asked to enter the conference code.  Enter code 338 to connect to the call.

Agenda

9:00

1. Introductions (15)
2. Update on Responses to Summit and Next Steps
   memo (10k PDF) and "Executive Summit Tasks – 021108" (90k Word)
3. Approval of Summit Task 4 Proposal (680k Word)
4. Work Plan Action Items (Tom Iverson and Peter Paquet).
5. Short Puget Sound Update (Stewart)
6. Proposed May 2008 Invasive Species Data Management Workshop
   memo (30k PDF) and worksession notes (120k Word)
7. Best Practices (420k Word), Metadata and Community Page - Work Session
   1. Goals and Objectives Statement (40k Word)
   2. comparison of templates and requirements (if any) for Metadata in:
      1. NED Portal (110k Excel) and metadata (280k Word)
      2. Bruce Schmidt's table: download 1 (40k Word)
      3. EPA - Implementation of FGDC metadata standards (140k Excel)
      4. EPA - Metadata editor overview (13mb PowerPoint)
      5. Viv Hutchison MetaVist (demo)
      6. ISEMP (440k PDF)
      7. Protocol Manager
      8. GeoVista - NASA?

   * How do these three parts fit together and how can we best advance them collaboratively?
   * How best to make all the related documents available?

Noon - 1:00 — Lunch

Afternoon Work Session 1:00 - 3:00

Continuation of morning session – Note the morning session will probably need to continue into the afternoon but we must also discuss the SOW below.  Please give priority to reading the SOW.

7. Work session - Continued
   3. Statement of Work for Community Page Development (50k Word)
   4. Next Steps and Responsibilities