Common use of Project Narrative Clause in Contracts

Project Narrative. Summarize the project activities. Include its accomplishments, successes, challenges, and collaboration activities, as appropriate. How were challenges identified and what steps were taken to overcome these challenges? For workshops: • Indicate the number, duration, and venue of workshops conducted, as appropriate. • List organizations and organizational type (Federal, State, local, Tribal, academic, NGO, etc) for workshop participants. Names and email addresses for participants are optional, but desirable. • List number of individuals and the agency/organization they represent receiving FGDC-endorsed standards training, and outreach assistance. • List for each workshop the overall customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction rating is from the NSDI training evaluation form which also provides the means to evaluate trainer proficiency. The evaluation is administered after each workshop and should take as little as 10 minutes if measuring only customer satisfaction and 20 minutes for trainer proficiency. The evaluation form is available at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/training. • Describe the means of instruction, for example, lecture only, lecture and exercises, or lecture and computer assisted. • Letters of recognition for the workshop to the awardee, publication articles regarding the workshop, external endorsement for the workshop. • List new organizations engaged in this project. • Will this project's activities continue after the performance period? • What formal or informal organizational relationships have been established to sustain activities beyond performance period? • Describe the next phase in your project. • Requirements (more technical assistance, software, other?) • What other areas need work? • What do you anticipate for future FGDC-endorsed standards training and outreach after the project performance period ends? • What are the CAP Program strengths and weaknesses? • Where did it make a difference? • Was the assistance you received sufficient or effective? • What would you recommend that the FGDC do differently? • Are there factors that are missing or additional needs that should be considered? • Are there program management concerns that need to be addressed, such as the time frame? • If you were to do the project again, what would you do differently?

Project Narrative. Summarize the project activities. Include its accomplishments, successes, challenges, and collaboration activities, as appropriate. How were challenges identified and what steps were taken to overcome these challenges? For workshops: • Indicate the number, duration, and venue (indicate if Internet/Web supported , i.e. Webinar) of workshops conducted, as appropriate. • List organizations and organizational type (Federal, State, local, Tribal, academic, NGO, etc) for workshop participants. Names and email addresses for participants are optional, but desirable, as an appendix. • List number of individuals and the agency/organization they represent receiving FGDC-endorsed standards metadata training, and outreach assistance. • List for each workshop the overall customer satisfaction. Customer satisfaction rating is from the NSDI training evaluation form which also provides the means to evaluate trainer proficiency. The evaluation is administered after each workshop and should take as little as 10 minutes if measuring only customer satisfaction and 20 minutes for trainer proficiency. The evaluation form is available at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/training. • Describe the means of instruction, for example, lecture only, lecture and exercises, or lecture and computer assisted. • Letters of recognition for the workshop to the awardee, publication articles regarding the workshop, external endorsement for the workshop. • Describe the means of instruction: lecture only, lecture and exercises, or lecture and computer assisted. • List new organizations engaged in this project. • Indicate how and where metadata is served: NSDI registered clearinghouse node, Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting (OAI-PMH) provider software, or FGDC Browse-enabled Web Directory, where metadata is in XML and harvestable through The Geospatial One-Stop Portal at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇. • Approximately how many metadata files have resulted from this project, if any? • Will this the project's activities continue after the performance periodaward is closed? • What formal or informal organizational relationships have been established to sustain activities beyond performance period? • Describe the next phase in your project. • Are there issues in metadata management and service? Do you need FGDC assistance? • Requirements (more technical assistance, software, other?) • What other areas need work? • What do you anticipate for future FGDC-endorsed standards training metadata training, outreach, creation and outreach posting (to clearinghouse or other locations) after the project performance period ends? • What are the CAP Program strengths and weaknesses? • Where did it make a difference? • Was the assistance you received sufficient or effective? • What would you recommend that the FGDC do differently? • Are there factors that are missing or additional needs that should be considered? • Are there program management concerns that need to be addressed, such as the time frame? • If you were to do the project again, what would you do differently?

Project Narrative. Summarize the project activities. Include its accomplishments, successes, challenges, and collaboration activities, as appropriate. How were challenges identified and what steps were taken to overcome these challenges? For workshops: • - Indicate the number, duration, and venue of workshops conducted, as appropriate. • - List organizations and organizational type (Federal, State, local, Tribal, academic, NGO, etc) for workshop participants. Names and email addresses for participants are optional, but desirable. • - List number of individuals and the agency/organization they represent receiving FGDC-endorsed standards metadata training, and outreach assistance. • List for each workshop - Identify the overall customer satisfactionlevel of proficiency or competency of the trainees or training: creators, administrators, managers/program implementers or introduction, advanced concepts, program implementation/business case. Customer satisfaction rating is from the NSDI training evaluation form which also provides the means to evaluate trainer proficiency. The evaluation is administered after each workshop and should take as little as 10 minutes if measuring only customer satisfaction and 20 minutes for trainer proficiency. The evaluation form is available at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇/training. • - Describe the means of instruction, for example, : lecture only, lecture and exercises, or lecture and computer assisted. • Letters of recognition for the workshop to the awardee, publication articles regarding the workshop, external endorsement for the workshop. • - List new organizations engaged in this project. • - Indicate how and where metadata is served: NSDI registered clearinghouse node, Geospatial One-Stop registered and harvested. - Approximately how many metadata files have resulted from this project, if any? - Will this project's activities continue after the performance periodthis? • - What formal or informal organizational relationships have been established to sustain activities beyond performance period? • - Describe the next phase in your project. • - Are there issues in metadata management and service? Do you need FGDC assistance? - Requirements (more technical assistance, software, other?) • - What other areas need work? • - What do you anticipate for future FGDC-endorsed standards training metadata training, outreach, creation and outreach posting (to clearinghouse or other locations) after the project performance period ends? • - What are the CAP Program program strengths and weaknesses? • - Where did it does the program make a difference? • - Was the assistance you received sufficient or effective? • - What would you recommend that the FGDC do doing differently? • - Are there factors that are missing or additional needs need to consider that should be consideredwere missed? • - Are there program management concerns that need to be addressed, such as the time ? Time frame? • - If you were to do the project this again, what would you do differently?