NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program
Metadata Training & Outreach Assistance Project
Interim and Final Project Report Format

In writing the report keep in mind the objective of this category for organizations skilled in metadata implementation, and clearinghouse service to assist other organizations by providing training, metadata creation assistance, and clearinghouse or web mapping services. Ideally, sustained on-going processes for data documentation will be established for organizations for documenting (metadata) their geospatial holdings, serving this documentation.  Keep the report short and to the point.  All reports will be posted to the FGDC grants Web site.

Date
Agreement Number:
Project title:
Indicate whether Interim or Final report
Organization: Name, address, Web address
Principal Investigator: Name, telephone, email
Collaborating Organizations: Name, point of contact, address, Web address

Executive Summary
Write a short paragraph (under 200 words) describing the key successes or outcomes of the project. Interim Report shall highlight anticipated outcomes and actual milestones, whereas the Final report summary should describe the project as completed.

Project Narrative
Summarize the project activities. Include its accomplishments, successes, challenges, and collaboration activities, as appropriate.  How were challenges identified and what steps were taken to overcome these challenges?

Training and outreach assistance:
Indicate the number, duration, and venue of workshops conducted, as appropriate.
List organizations and organizational type (Federal, State, local, Tribal, academic, NGO, etc) for workshop participants.  Names and
mail addresses for participants are optional, but desirable.
List number of individuals receiving metadata training, and outreach assistance.
Identify the level of proficiency or competency of the trainees or training: creators, administrators, managers/program implementers or introduction, advanced concepts, program implementation/business case.  
Describe the means of instruction: lecture only, lecture and exercises, or lecture and computer assisted.
List new organizations engaged in this project.    

 Status of Metadata Service
Indicate how and where metadata is served: NSDI registered clearinghouse node, Geospatial One-Stop registered and harvested.
Approximately how many metadata files have resulted from this project, if any?

Next Steps:
Will this project's activities continue after this?
What formal or informal organizational relationships established to sustain activities beyond performance period?
Describe the next phase in your project.
Are there issues in metadata management and service?   Do you need FGDC assistance?
Requirements (more technical assistance, software, other?)
What other areas need work?
What do you anticipate future metadata training, outreach, creation and posting (to clearinghouse or other locations) after the project performance period ends?

Feedback on Cooperative Agreements Program (to be completed for the final report)
What are the program strengths and weaknesses?
Where does the program make a difference?
Was the assistance you received sufficient or effective?
What would you recommend doing differently?
Are there factors that are missing or additional needs that should be considered?
Are there program management concerns that need to be addressed? Time frame?
If you were to do this again, what would you do differently?