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Fulton County and City of Atlanta Experience
Carl Anderson, GIS Manager, Fulton County
Eric McRae, Georgia GIS Data Clerainghouse
Steven Williams, GIS Manager, City of Atlanta
The November OGETA session will focus on a taking the first step toward building a knowledge community in the core Atlanta metro area. This first step is to identify and implement a solution, which makes it possible for agencies to search for and identify available information and the usefulness of that information.
GeoNetwork is an open source metadata catalog. It has been used by the Fulton County Department of Planning and Development for more than 4 years. The catalog is currently being implemented by the City of Atlanta, Planning and Community Development Department for City of Atlanta GIS data. The catalog allows common term searches and maintenance of multiple organizationally specific taxonomies. It can be used internally on the Intranet and externally on the Internet and is usable on many different file types.
Public Sector agencies will never be able to share data until they have a workable metadata catalog that is searchable, affordable, broad enough to handle all data types, and utilized as a meaningful tool within the operations of the key data creators.
Carl Anderson, Fulton County GIS Manager, will provide an overview of the GeoNetwork overview. Carl made this same presentation at the 2006 URISA conference and it created considerable discussion. Steve Williams, City of Atlanta Planning Department GIS Manager, will present on the City’s experience implementing the catalogue. Eric McRae from the Georgia GIS Clearinghouse will discuss the implications of the catalogue for the GIS Clearinghouse and the GeoSpatial One Stop v3. If this metadata catalog model is adopted and made Internet available by other key data creators it will open up many new opportunities for data collaborations. It is entirely possible that the development and use of such a catalogue could significantly alter the current data collection/analysis/action continuum and freeing up considerable time and funding that was invested in data collection to now be use in analysis and for policy action.