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STANDARDIZATION ACTIVITIES OF THE FEDERAL GEOGRAPHIC DATA COMMITTEE
Pages 28-30

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... to promote the coordinated development, use, sharing, and dissemination of surveying, mapping, and related spatial data. Fourteen departments and independent agencies are members of the FGDC, including the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Energy, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, State, and Transportation; the Environmental Protection Agency; the Federal Emergency Management Agency, the Library of Congress; the National Aeronautics and Space Administration; the National Archives and Records Administration; and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
From page 29...
... Activities include developing functional requirements and operating principles, and evaluating prototype efforts. Envisioned as an electronic, distributed mechanism accessible over a wide-area communication network, the clearinghouse initially will include indices to and metadata about spatial data.
From page 30...
... DATA QUALITY-statement of quality to assist potential users to determine if the data are suitable for an application METADATA REFERENCE~urrentness of and contacts for the metadata 30


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