<div dir="ltr"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Hi all, Wanted to make folks aware of a really great metadata training that NOAA's</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) is offering once again. The trainings start tomorrow so check out the link below today.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">These webinars are extremely informative and worth the time.  See below for more</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">information:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
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<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">NOAA's National Coastal Data Development Center (NCDDC) is pleased to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">announce the new schedule of its popular free online metadata training</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">series. NCDDC will offer two courses, "Intro to ISO" and, "Transition to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ISO Metadata" in weekly, hour-long webinars beginning in November 2013.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">The "Intro to ISO" one-hour weekly webinars will begin </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">November 5</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> and be</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">taught each </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">Tuesday</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> through </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">December 17, 2013</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. A second series of "Intro to</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ISO" will be offered </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">January 16 -March 6, 2014</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">. A "Transition to ISO" series</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">will begin </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">November 7</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> and be taught each </span><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">Thursday</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> through December</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">19, 2013. A second series of the "Transition to ISO" will be offered</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" tabindex="0" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="">January 14 -February 25, 2014</span></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">In an environment of declining budgets and travel limitations, online</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">training has proven to be a successful way to keep data managers informed</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">about the latest metadata standards and tools. So far in 2013, NCDDC has</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">held five training series with 822 individuals from 42 countries on six</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">continents participating. More information about the training, including</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">course descriptions, can be found at</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><a href="http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/metadata-standards/metadata-training/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.ncddc.noaa.gov/metadata-standards/metadata-training/</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, or by</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">
<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">emailing the NCDDC Metadata Team at </span><a href="mailto:ncddcmetadata@noaa.gov" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">ncddcmetadata@noaa.gov</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">.</span><br>

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