Geospatial data and systems maintenance
Budgeting for data maintenance
c Data maintenance is put into project budgets for mission-required data
c Labor for updates is charged to projects and is included in project budget
Data backups
A wide variety of routines exist for geospatial data backups
c Responsible planning for data storage and backups is in place
c Relationship between geospatial data users and IM people strong
Software and hardware updates
c Hardware, software, and data updates are incorporated into budgets
c There is a plan for GD&S hardware, software and data updates
c The update plan is communicated to all levels of GD&S employees and managers
Geospatial data standards
Data dictionaries
Members of GD&S community may not be using same GD&S language
c GD&S employees are knowledgeable about Tri-Service Spatial Data Standard
c Advanced TSSDS users contribute their opinions to TSSDS effort
File-naming conventions
Without filename conventions, available data may be lost
c File-naming conventions are in place in organization
c File-naming conventions are widely known and used across subgroups within organi-
zation
c Year of data creation is incorporated into file-naming conventions
c File-naming conventions, data dictionary standards and metadata standards are all
adhered to within organization's GD&S community
Geospatial data documentation
Many USACE employees do not realize benefit of geospatial metadata standard and do not
use it.
c Project managers are knowledgable about geospatial metadata standard
c Geospatial metadata is incorporated into normal business processes in GD&S work at
the organization
Geospatial data library
Would allow GD&S personnel to determine what data are already available and what
must be created or bought for a project
c Contracting language requiring metadata from contractors is standard in GD&S con-
tracts
c Standard data dictionary, format, and accuracy specifications for each data layer are
used for every GD&S project
c Metadata or data documentation is created for every new GD&S dataset (unless it
belongs to another organization and they have requested that no metadata be made)
c A data manager is responsible for organization's geospatial data library
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