Who is doing it?
Why do it?
What will be done?
What will the products include?
What will the inventory provide?
When will it be done?

NEOEDEN FAQ

What will be done?

The project will design and create the NEO-EDEN searchable Web site on a central server, collect the data to be stored in the NEO-EDEN data base, and store these data on networked servers located at each of the four cooperating Universities. The data will all be stored in standardized and fully documented formats to be identified by the participating Universities.

The four participating universities will organize and provide training programs for public and private agencies in northeast Ohio on the NEO-EDEN data bases and on the procedures for accessing these data via the Internet.

NEO-EDEN activities include:

1. Development of a centralized inventory and metadata clearinghouse on NEO-EDEN databases which is accessible via the Internet;

2. Providing Internet access to a distributed network of environmental and land-use related geospatial databases which comprise the collective NEO-EDEN data base; and

3. Establishing a training and education program on the NEO-EDEN data bases, on accessing these data and related data bases via the Internet, and on the nationally-specified metadata standards which are used to describe these data.

What will the products include?

Products include:

1. A searchable Internet node utilizing a central NEO-EDEN "home page," which provides information exchange and other clearinghouse functions using the Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) endorsed Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata;

2. A comprehensive metadata-referenced inventory of current environmental databases and spatial database applications in northeast Ohio;

3. Extensive digital spatial information collections stored at each of the GIS-Net sites and

4. Accessible through the central NEO-EDEN node;

5. An online metadata system which describes and documents the NEO-EDEN databases.

6. Instruction and training to professionals, private citizens, and university students in the region on content and use of the NEO-EDEN data, on using the Internet to access these data, and on the FGDC-endorsed standards which are used to describe and document these data.