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Collecting metadata on any available information from the NY-NJ area was discussed at the meeting. Below is a preliminary table describing metadata fields that would be helpful in determining the amount and types of data that are available before attempting to integrate it all into a common database. This list is meant to provide space for digital data sets (databases, GIS layers, scanned photos, etc.) as well as other non-digital reference materials. Not all fields may apply to all data sets. It is designed as an initial broad-brush inventory of available information in the NY-NJ areas.
A blank Excel spreadsheet with these metadata fields as headings can be
downloaded here and filled in:
metanynj.xls
| METADATA FIELD | DESCRIPTION |
EXAMPLES
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFO (OPTIONAL) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject/Content | Main content of database or GIS | Bathymetry, coastline, sediments, habitats, seafloor imagery, physical oceanography | (e.g. for physical oceanography: currents,temperature, salinity) |
| Data type | Format of data | Analog; digital; other (e.g. photographs) | (e.g. paper map, ArcView shapefile, sediment database) |
| Description | Name of product (Title or filename) | SHOAL
(USACE wave hindcasting model); USGS Offshore Sediment Database; LISound.jpg |
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| Agency or organization | Creator or sponsor of product | USACE,
NY District; NOAA Coast Survey, USGS Coastal and Marine |
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| Contact person(s) | Name, location, e-mail & telephone | ||
| Source of data | General description telling where/how the data was obtained | Contractor
vibracore analyses for USACE, NY District; NJ DEP digital environmental data, Volume 4 (Tidelands Integrated Freshwater wetlands and land Use/Land Cover) |
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| Geographic area | General description of area | NY-NJ
coastal area; Barnegat Bay |
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| Boundaries | More specific limits, if applicable | Cape May to Montauk Pt. | |
| Scale | Scale of printed maps, or intended scale for use of digital data | 1:250,000 | |
| Dates of acquisition | Year(s) | 1962-99 | |
| Mode of use | Current usage of this data | Web, publication, CD ROM, In-house | |
| URL for data or metadata | Specific web site (not agency home page) where data can be downloaded or viewed | http://coast-enviro.er.usgs.gov/aggregat | |
| User retrieval method | How the user should obtain copies | Download from web site; special request | |
| Published reference | Bibliographic reference if data or materials have been published | Butman and Lindsay, ed., 1999: A Marine GIS Library for Massachusetts Bay, USGS Open-File Report 99-439. | |
| Projection | Transformation used for maps or GIS layers | UTM Zone
18; Geographic Coordinate System |
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| Horizontal datum | Horizontal reference datum (ellipsoidal model) used for maps or GIS layers | WGS84; NAD27 |
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| Vertical datum | Reference surface used as the basis of elevation | NAVD88 | |
| GIS Feature type | Feature type of GIS layer | point; line; polygon; raster | |
| Resolution of image/grid data | Distance on earth depicted in one cell of raster layer | cell size = 10m | |
| Other related web sites/publications | URLs or other references to metadata for related data sets |
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