A Metadata Element Set for Project Documentation

ABSTRACT

NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) is a large engineering enterprise which designs and develops instruments and unmanned spacecraft, with the majority of its work performed through projects and project teams. Project documentation is organized in separate project library systems making it difficult to discover resources across project libraries, to share knowledge and to support long-term preservation of and access to the information. The “Goddard Core,” based on qualified Dublin Core with extensions, was developed to support evaluation and resource discovery of project-oriented information across project libraries. Broader issues for project management metadata are also examined.

Key Words:

• Metadata
• Dublin Core
• knowledge management
• project documentation
• engineering projects