Standards for project metadata and support documentation for the 22 LCCs to create the metadata were developed by the CA LCC Data Managers under contract by the LCC National Office as part of the effort to create the Simple National Project Catalog database. The resulting database provided a single national source for information to date on all projects funded by the 22 individual LCCs and the national office, and a tool for reviewing these projects, for purposes of national-level management and presenting summaries of this information to Congress. Project descriptions were collected in standardized metadata records using controlled vocabularies, and presented in an online database with searching capabilities. The metadata standard and controlled vocabularies were developed by the LCC Data Management Working Group in collaboration with the 22 LCCs. LCC Data Managers were provided a standardized Excel spreadsheet and assisted in creating their project metadata, and later supported in using Sciencebase through a a customized form for creating and editing the records developed in a system called DEPTH. The searchable database was posted online for use by the LCC National Headquarters in 2013 and updated in 2014. This work was the precurser to the development by the DMWG of a more automated metadata publishing system using the Arctic LCC’s mdEditor and Sciencebase, and the records became the starting point for the Information Assets Archiving effort of 2017. The database website at lccprojects.org was deactivated in 2017.
