Report Format for FGDC-Endorsed Standards Implementation Assistance and Outreach
Category 1 - 2007
Indicate Agreement Number:
Indicate Project title:
Indicate whether Interim or Final report
Report Date:
Organization: Name, address, Web address
Project Leader: Name, telephone, email
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?
Complete the following, as appropriate to your project:
For FGDC-endorsed standards implementation guide
development:
- Describe the development approach for structuring and organizing
the implementation guide.
- List the reviewers for the development of the guide.
- List major deviations from the proposal and explain
rationale.
- List the audiences used for testing, if any appropriate.
- For the final report, identify the delivery point for the
guide.
- For the final report, identify completed activities and or if
any, planned activities, if any, to inform the community of the
guidance activities and the existence of the implementation guide.
For 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 email 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.
For Status of Metadata Service
- Indicate how and where metadata is served: NSDI registerd
clearinghouse node, Geospatial One-Stop registered and harvested,
- Approximately how many metadata files have resulted from this
project, if any?
For Metadata Implementation - 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?