DGDC Standards, Reports, and Communications

The Federal Geographic Data Committee coordinates the development of the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI). The NSDI encompasses policies, standards, and procedures for organizations to cooperatively produce and share geographic data.

The Delaware Geographic Data Committee (DGDC) coordinates statewide activity supporting the FGDC efforts. To support the DGDC, the Clearinghouse maintains a collection of reports on topics such as:

• policy papers
• discussion papers
• status reports
• meeting minutes
• relevant legislation
• points of contact.

Reports in Adobe PDF format (".pdf") can be read using Adobe Inc.'s public-domain Acrobat Reader.

Status reports

• 1996 FGDC Competitive Cooperative Agreements Program: Status Report: Implementation of a Geospatial Data Clearinghouse for Delaware (.pdf)
• 1996 FGDC Competitive Cooperative Agreements Program: Final Report:Implementation of a Geospatial Data Clearinghouse for Delaware (.pdf)

Meeting Minutes

• DGDC (Delaware Geographic Data Committee) and SMAC (State Mapping Advisory Committee)
• GeoData Forum 99: Graphical summary of the conference, sketched by The Grove Consultants Int'l artists D. Arsenian and T. Kent (.pdf).
      This is a 75-dpi rendition (1 Mb). A 150-dpi resolution (4 Mb) file is also available.

Electronic Communication

• How to subscribe to the DGDC E-mail list server Del-GIS

Relevant Legislation

• House Bill 395 (Statewide Database / GIS)

FGDC Metadata Standards

• The FGDC Standards Reference Model
• Graphical representation of the metadata content standard
• Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, Version 1
• Content Standard for Digital Geospatial Metadata, Version 2 (.pdf)
• FGDC Metadata Workbook 2.0
• NASA Metadata theme keyword thesaurus

National Organizations and Initiatives

• The National Spatial Data Infrastructure
• The Federal Geographic Data Committee