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Welcome
to the gigateway news update. You are receiving this as an AGI member or
having subscribed through the gigateway website.
Following
the publication of the UK GEMINI
guidelines, the gigateway team has now begun the significant
task of checking the current metadata records against the quality
standard. The team will also be taking
the opportunity to convert the existing records to the The
guidelines advise checking all your metadata records at least yearly. Many of the current records date back to
before 2004, so you may be contacted to confirm that your metadata is still
up to date. We are
committed to improving the quality of existing gigateway records as part of
this year’s operating plan. We
hope that data providers will share our desire to see up-to-date,
comprehensive metadata records on the service and will help us in achieving
this aim. NIMSA Update - gigateway still on track The
National Interest Mapping Services Agreement (“NIMSA”) funds
mapping services which are in the national interest, but would not otherwise
be provided by the market as they are not economically viable. This includes
the gigateway service. NIMSA
was established in 1999 as a 7-year agreement between the Department for
Communities and Local Government (“DCLG”) and Ordnance Survey
(“OS”). As the agreement is due to expire, DCLG has considered
the future of national interest funding. It has
been announced that the current NIMSA arrangement with Ordnance Survey will
be terminated with effect from We hope
this will assure data providers that the government is committed to the funding
of a national metadata service. e-GMS
version 3.1 released The UK
e-Government Metadata Standard (e-GMS) version 3.1 has been published and
is available on the GovTalk site. The Integrated Public Sector
Vocabulary (IPSV) is now the mandated encoding scheme for the Subject
element. Additional
changes include:
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