RIGIS-L,

Due to the overwhelming demand for the March 25, 2016 RIGIS Metadata Author's Workshop, the Rhode Island Statewide Planning Program and the University of Rhode Island Environmental Data Center are conducting a second, free RIGIS Metadata Author's Workshop on Wednesday June 1, 2016. 

This free all-day workshop steps through how to build standards-compliant metadata using out-of-the-box tools provided by Esri ArcGIS Desktop 10.3. This will be a crash course in metadata; specifically focusing on why good metadata matter, how to effectively use ArcGIS Desktop for creating metadata, the anatomy of an ArcGIS metadata record, and step-by-step instructor-led training in creating an FGDC-compliant metadata record. This course will focus on helping RIGIS data contributors meet the RIGIS metadata standards when submitting datasets.

All participants must bring a sample dataset that they wish to write metadata for. This will allow everyone to walk away with a metadata record to continue building from on their own.

The workshop will be hosted at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI.  A follow-up series of online office hours will be exclusively available to participants afterwards.  Registration is capped at fifteen students, with priority given to active data contributors to RIGIS.

If interested, please apply online at http://goo.gl/forms/8J53JTZVFF no later than 5pm on Wednesday, May 11, 2016. Please contact Erica Tefft ([log in to unmask]) with any questions about this special opportunity.