Chris Polloni is the new Co-CoP Leader for the Archiving of Scientific Data and Information with hand off from John Faundeen who led the initial Communit of Interest workshop 22Mar2006 Joe Langdon is the other new Co-CoP leader    (334P)

Chris collaborates with Sharon Shin and George Lienkaemper on FGDC metadata tools and standards    (334Q)

37 participants in the CoI workshop    (3442)

   * still defining scope
   * Identified lots of needs and issues
   * Dealing with legacy data, lack nof access, usability of data and quality of metadata
   * Communication vehicles: e-mails, bulletin boards, Wiki
   * Joe Langdon and Chris Polloni will serve as community coordinators    (3443)