CIESIN's Guide to FGDC Compliant Metadata

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Examples shown for individual metadata elements were drawn from CIESIN's own metadata database as well as from the following metadata records:

Campbell, Reid. April 27, 1995. "USGS Gaging Stations Metadata". [online metadata record]. Raleigh, NC: NC Division of Water Resources. Available at: http://www.ncwater.org/metadata/usgsgage.htm

Schweitzer, Peter, N. May 12, 1995. "Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge core 5 Arctic Ocean". [online metadata record]. Reston, VA: U.S. Geological Survey. Available at: http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/NWR/OFR_91-346/Contents/FGDCmeta.txt

Shaffer, Linda. September 20, 1994. "National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) wetlands data: Hickory". [metadata record]. St. Petersburg, FL: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory. (In: Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). 1994. Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata. Workbook, version 1.0, March 1995. Washington, DC: FGDC).

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). June 10, 1994. "U.S. Geological Survey Digital Line Graph File: Wilmington South". [metadata record]. Reston, VA: USGS. (In: Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). 1994. Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata. Workbook, version 1.0, March 1995. Washington, DC: FGDC).

CIESIN's Guide to FGDC Compliant Metadata

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