Task Team on the Application of Metadata (TT-ApMD) Terms of Reference
To identify standard ways of expressing information within metadata that is to be used by WIS to control access to and management of data.
To identify emerging good practice in creating metadata that will enable users from outside the originator’s community to identify that the data are relevant to them and develop recommended practices to achieve this end
To create educational material to assist Members in creating and managing metadata based on the experiences of those who have already created and used metadata
To provide exemplars of metadata for a variety of common data set types
To implement an educational programme for Members
To assist Members improve the metadata for their datasets beyond the automated metadata generated for data listed in the GTS catalogue
To develop a migration procedure from Volume C1 to metadata catalogue
To actively promote within the WMO community adoption of the practices it has developed and the exchange of further best practice that evolves within the user communities
To hand over maintenance of the guidance to a more permanent team by CBS XV (2012).
