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Sources

Throughout these Guidelines, examples shown for individual metadata elements are drawn from CIESIN's own metadata database as well as from the following metadata records.

Campbell, Reid. April 27, 1995. "USGS Gaging Stations Metadata". [online metadata record]. Raleigh, North Caroline: NC Division of Water Resources.
URL: http://www.dwr.ehnr.state.nc.us/metadata/usgsgage.htm#MR

Schweitzer, Peter, N. May 12, 1995. "Planktic foraminifer census data from Northwind Ridge core 5 Arctic Ocean". [online metadata record]. Reston, Virginia: U.S. Geological Survey.
URL: http://geochange.er.usgs.gov/pub/NWR/OFR_91-346/Contents/FGDCmeta.txt

Shaffer, Linda. September 20, 1994. "National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) wetlands data: Hickory". [metadata record]. St. Petersburg, Florida: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, National Wetlands Inventory. (In: Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). 1994. Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata. Workbook, version 1.0, March 1995. Washington, D.C.: FGDC).

U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). June 10, 1994. "U.S. Geological Survey Digital Line Graph File: Wilmington South". [metadata record]. Reston, Virginia: USGS. (In: Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC). 1994. Content Standards for Digital Geospatial Metadata. Workbook, version 1.0, March 1995. Washington, D.C.: FGDC).

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