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Johnny-
Another NSDI_L posting that may interest MAPS-Lers.
Dale
 
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>Date: Fri, 18 Oct 1996 07:19:39 -0400
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>> Please post and pass on to colleagues who might be qualified and
>interested in taking a week-off to conduct training in the US Virgin
>Islands.
>>
>> Request for Proposals
>>
>> One Week Training in Metadata Collection
>>
>> Island Resources Foundation, in cooperation with the Conservation Data
>> Center of the US Virgin Islands and members of the Virgin Islands
>>Resource Management Cooperative, is seeking qualified persons or
>>organizations to produce and present a one-week training program for up
>to >eight data administrators who will have responsibilities for
>documenting
>>geographic information used in environmental activities in the Virgin
>>Islands.This task will be conducted as part of a project to create a
>"Virgin
>>Islands Biological Information Node" as an element of the National
>Spatial
>>Data Infrastructure.
>>
>> The selected individual or institution will be required to present
>>training and tools for executing the following aspects of Metadata
>>Collection:
>>
>> *     Background and content of the Content Standards for Digital
>>Geospatial Metadata as promulgated by the Federal Geographic Data
>Committee
>>               -       The National Performance Review
>>               -       The National Spatial Data Infrastructure
>>               -       The National Biological Information Infrastructure
>> *     The Federal Geographic Data Committee Workbook
>> *     Detailed training in the use of a specific PC-based tool for
>>       completing metadata records (choice of tool is to be proposed by the
>>       candidate trainer, copies of the software will be provided to each
>>       participant)
>>       -       Detailed training in checking metadata data records for
>>               compliance with the Content Standard (use of "mp" or other
>>               metadata parsing tools)
>>       -       Quality control issues and techniques for metadata
>>
>> *     Interviewing techniques (and survey forms) for gathering metadata
>>       information from source data gatherers and custodians
>> *     Supervised entry of a number of datasets by participating trainees
>> *     Planning for metadata collection: how to set priorities when you
>>       have too many datasets and too few hours
>> *     Training of a future trainer of metadata collection personnel
>> *     Delivery of copies of all training materials.
>>
>> Island Resources Foundation and its cooperating groups will provide
>> trainees, a meeting room, an overhead projector and screen, and other
>>basic logistic support for the training site. Access to enough
>computers for
>>all of the trainees may be a problem which the training proposal might
>address and for which the trainer(s) need to be prepared.
>>
>> Training is to begin as soon as possible, with a VERY strong
>>preference to begin before the tourist season begins in December.
>>
>> Proposals should include all costs of supplies and materials for the
>> training, and transportation costs for the trainer (at US Government
>> reimbursement rates -- we will work with you to get reasonable hotel
>> rates). This is a cost-sensitive proposal, but experience, content of
>>the training proposed, and innovation count for a lot, too.
>>
>> The trainer or training group should understand that the Virgin
>>Islands operating environment for digital information is overwhelmingly
>>based on Intel hardware platforms and MSDOS/Windows operating systems.
>The
>>trainer is unlikely to have access to UNIX-based systems for training
>or
>> demonstration purposes.
>>
>> Future phases of the Virgin Island Biological Information Project will
>> include mounting Virgin Islands metadata on an Internet server, and
>>making the information available for search and retrieval on the world
>wide
>>web. This training will not be required to deal with those aspects of
>the
>> project.
>>
>> Proposals are due at Island Resources Foundation office in Washington,
>>DC, no later than close of business, 25 October, 1996. A contract will
>be
>> negotiated and awarded the following week.
>>
>> Email proposals to:   <[log in to unmask]>
>> Fax proposals to:     202/232-0748, or
>>
>> Mail to                       Island Resources Foundation
>>                       1718 "P" Street NW, Suite T-4
>>                       Washington, DC  20036
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> >---<+>---<+>---<+>---<+>---<+>--|+|---<+>---<+>---<+>---<+>---<+>---<
>> Island Resources Foundation      |+|Island Resources Foundation
>> 6296 Estate Nazareth, No. 11     |+|1718 "P" Street NW, Suite T-4
>> St. Thomas, VI 00802-1104        |+|Washington, DC 20036
>> phone 809/775-6225,fax 779-2022  |+|phone 202/265-9712,fax 232-0748
>> Internet: [log in to unmask]            [log in to unmask]
>> >---<>Check the Island Resources Web Site at http://www.irf.org<>---<
>>
>>
>>
>>-- End of excerpt from Island Resources Foundation
>
 
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