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| GIgateway™
Newsletter - July 2004 |
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Metadata
Fundamentals Workshops: 1st Wave Complete |
| GIgateway
completed its first wave of metadata workshops earlier this week, having
visited London, Cambridge, Bath, Windsor and Coventry throughout June and
into July. The workshops proved to be very popular, not only in the number
of delegates attending, but also judged by the responses in our post-training
assessment forms. Here are a just a few of the comments received: |
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"Excellent
workshop!" |
| "Excellent
course. Useful, interesting, focussed on relevant issues, well delivered
- Thank you!" |
| "Informative
and thought provoking. A good use of a morning." |
| "A
very useful course, a very easy to use tool." |
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| If you are
interested in attending a workshop later in the year, when we will be moving
to cover the north of England, Scotland and Wales, please keep your eye
on GIgateway and our e-Newsletters for dates and venues. |
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| GIgateway
Goals and Objectives for 2004-2005 |
| On Monday
14th June, the GIgateway Services Operating Plan for 2004-2005 was agreed
and signed between AGI and Ordnance Survey. GIgateway now has a set of challenging
targets to meet by April 2005, many of which are already well underway. |
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| In a recent
statement, Geoff May summarised some of these challenges: |
"The
focus in the coming year will be on increasing the amount and quality
of the metadata and raising the level of usage of the service, with the
latter criteria being supported by having a greater understanding of customer
needs. The Key Performance Targets in the Service Operating Plan are very
challenging but when achieved will ensure there is credible evidence to
support the case for continuation of NIMSA funding beyond the end of the
current Agreement in March 2006."
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| The team at
AGI are looking forward to meeting these challenges, with the support of
OS and the wider GI community, to make GIgateway a success. |
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From
left to right: Mark Linehan (Director, AGI),
Louise Scofield (Info. Services Coordinator, AGI), Geoff
May (NIMSA Contract Manager, Ordnance Survey), Dave Lovell
(Head of Public Affairs, Ordnance Survey) |
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| MetaGenie
Online - due for imminent release! |
| The Online
version of MetaGenie is due for release within the next 2 weeks. This browser
based version of our popular metadata creation tool will make publishing
on GIgateway even easier for those organisations without their own metadata
node. Look out for our ***Stop Press*** newsletter in the next 2 weeks for
further news and registration details. |
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