I gave two presentations at the ESRI User conference this year. One was geared mostly towards what we do with metadata in our systems, while the other was more of a broad overview of USGIN and a little bit of NGDS progress report.

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Metadata-focused USGIN-NGDS Talk

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USGIN-NGDS Overview Talk

This poster outlines the general goals of the National Geothermal Data System, describes its relationship to the US Geoscience Information Network, and shows some of the ways that the Arizona Geological Survey plans to make it easier for individual state surveys to contribute information to NGDS. It was presented in Sacramento by Ryan Clark at the Digital Mapping Techniques 2010 conference.

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Poster - The National Geothermal Data System: The Geoscience Information Network In Action

Powerpoint stack for presentation at USGS, Menlo Park, CA, 04/16/2010, by Steve Richard

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Geoscience informationServices_USGS2010_0415.ppt