Chesapeake Bay Program Metadata Specification
This document includes documentation requirements for data resources across the Chesapeake Bay Program's data management and publishing environments.
Description
Data resources are foundational to the success of the Chesapeake Bay Program, and effective data management, quality control, publication and use are critical to the Bay Program mission. This document presents minimal data resource documentation, or metadata, requirements for data resources across the Bay Program's data management and publishing environments. It is intended to increase the consistency of data resource documentation across data providers, analysts and publishers so that Bay Program data resources contain the minimal documentation needed to support their use across all consumers and publishing environments. It is considered a living document that will be updated as needed to support the Bay Program mission.