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Like NARA, the Library of Congress (in particular, the Geography and Maps Division) has been involved with FGDC for many years (probably since inception). Some elements have been added to the MARC specification to allow mapping of important elements. LC is sponsoring a number of digital preservation partnerships through the NDIIPP program. See http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/ At least two of the projects (and maybe more) will make use of FGDC for metadata (not necessarily exclusively). They are specifically geospatial in nature: http://www.lib.ncsu.edu/ncgdap/research.html http://www.ngda.org/ A third project involves social science data sets -- http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/DATAPASS/. The Data Documentation Initiative (DDI) metadata schema for social science data sets (to be used for Data-PASS) incorporates boundary boxes and boundary polygons from FGDC as a potential way to describe the spatial coverage of studies. This feature will not be significant for the specific project, but there is great interest in ways to relate social science and geospatial datasets. Caroline Arms Library of Congress, Office of Strategic Initiatives [log in to unmask] >>> Ken Thibodeau <[log in to unmask]> 03/06/06 4:03 AM >>> NARA has been a member of the FGDC since its inception KenT Kenneth Thibodeau, Ph.D. Director Electronic Records Archives Program, NHE National Archives and Records Administration 8601 Adelphi Rd. 1510 College Park, MD 20740-6001 Phone: 1-301-837-0861 Fax 1-301-837-0953 >>> MacKenzie Smith <[log in to unmask]> 03/03/06 14:37 PM >>> Hi Greg, At 08:10 AM 3/1/2006 -0500, gmarch wrote: >I am curious to know if any DLF partners are actively involved with FGDC >metadata related projects? The MIT Geodata Repository http://libraries.mit.edu/gis/data/repository.html is also based on FGDC for description. The FGDC metadata is mostly created in house by the Libraries' GIS staff. MacKenzie MacKenzie Smith Associate Director for Technology MIT Libraries Building E25-131d 77 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02139 (617)253-8184 [log in to unmask]