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Selection Criteria for the Catalogue of Data Sources

Topic Report no. 5/1998 European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources

Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and European Topic Centre on Catalogue of Data Sources

Ebbe Kvist

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Table of contents
Summary
1. Introduction
1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5	ETC/CDS work Stepwise approach CDS users Metainformation The selection criteria project
2. Limitations
3. Methodology
3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5	Metainformation on the European level, - the very basic selection criterion The demand and current use of information resources are the main selection criteria Additional criteria Scoring procedure Different media used for real data
4. Proposed selection criteria
4.1 4.2	Discussion Proposed selection criteria and scoring path
5 Consensus and Recognition
5.1 5.2	Recognition procedure Results of the recognition procedure
6 Proposal for the first selection
6.1 6.2	Number of metainformation records per year and annual costs per country Additional metainformation records of special interest
7 Delivery of metainformation
7.1 7.2 7.3	National submissions EEA and ETC submissions Quality control
8 Time frame for criteria impementation
9 Proposed further developements

Annex 1 Possible metainformation sets and proposed scoring
Annex 2 Examples of the use of the selection criteria path