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

In writing the report keep in mind the objective of this category is for organizations skilled in metadata implementation to assist other organizations or administrative units by providing metadata training, metadata creation assistance, and metadata program implementation and support.  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 email addresses for participants are optional, but desirable.
List number of individuals and the agency/organization they represent receiving metadata training, and outreach assistance.
List for each workshop the overall customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction rating is from the USGS survey which also provides the means to evaluate trainer proficiency. The survey is administered after each workshop and should take as little as 10 minutes if measuring only customer satisfaction and 20 minutes for trainer proficiency.  The survey will be provided upon award.   
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, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provider software, or FGDC Browse-enabled Web Directory, where metadata is in XML and harvestable through The Geospatial One-Stop Portal at http://www.geodata.gov.
Approximately how many metadata files have resulted from this project, if any?

If any photographs, graphics, or illustrations of the project in action are available please include a couple or more of these.

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?