[Metadatalibrarians] whatever happened to gils?

[Dana Pearson]

GILS lives on:  http://www.gpoaccess.gov/gils/index.html

Nothing about their metadata on the home page though.

regards,
Dana Pearson


On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Riley, Jenn <jenlrile at indiana.edu> wrote:

> Hello metadata-librarian folk,
>
> I have a vague recollection from a few years ago that the federal
> government discontinued support for GILS metadata but I'm having trouble
> finding any documentation to confirm my recollection or to indicate when it
> is support was discontinued. Certainly the URLs associated with GILS I see
> out there (http://www.gils.net/,
> http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/gils/index.html,
> http://www.usgs.gov/gils/) are all dead. Can anyone point me to specific
> information on what happened to GILS, when, and why?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jenn
>
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