Guidelines for Presenting USGS Data and Publications on the Internet WWW

To: "A  - Division Chief and Staff"<distribution>,
        "B  - Branch Chiefs and Offices"<distribution>,
        "DC - All District Chiefs"<distribution>
cc: "Lewis V Wade, ACH/Water Information, Reston, VA" <lwade>,
        "Dorothy M Woods, Secretary (AO), Reston, VA" <dmwoods>,
        "Kenneth J Lanfear, Network Info Products Coord., Reston, VA" <lanfear>
Subject: Guidelines for Presenting USGS Data and Publications on the 
 Internet WWW
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From: "Lewis V Wade, ACH/Water Information, Reston, VA" <lwade>
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Date: Sun, 29 Sep 1996 09:44:21 -0400
Sender: "Dorothy M Woods, Secretary (AO), Reston, VA" <dmwoods>


In Reply Refer To:
Mail Stop 440

						September 27, 1996


WATER RESOURCES DIVISION MEMORANDUM NO. 96.37

Subject:	Guidelines for Presenting U.S. Geological Survey Data 
		and Publications on the Internet World Wide Web


The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) Internet Services Coordinating Team 
(ISCT) has developed Bureau guidelines for the Internet World Wide Web 
(WWW)--"Guidelines for Presenting U.S. Geological Survey Data and 
Publications on the Internet World Wide Web," dated August 14, 1996.   
These guidelines can be found at:  

	http://www.usgs.gov/USGS/guidelines/usgs.webguide.html

Effective immediately, the Bureau guidelines supersede Water Resources 
Division (WRD) Memorandum No. 95.04, "PUBLICATIONS--Publication of 
Documents on the Internet with World Wide Web."  This memorandum gave 
District and equivalent Office Chiefs the authority to approve materials 
served on the WWW if the presentation met WRD guidelines.  This 
redelegation of approval authority for WWW pages remains in effect under 
the new Bureau guidelines.

The intent of the new guidelines is not to restrict but rather to empower 
our employees to be creative and to develop new methods of presenting 
information on the WWW while maintaining the high standards for which the 
USGS is known.  I urge you to make sure that your "Webmaster" and all 
those preparing WWW materials are aware of the new guidelines.  
Implementation of the new guidelines should present few problems for 
sites presently following the WRD guidelines.

I wish to congratulate the ISCT for their work on the new Bureau 
guidelines, as well as the WRD Strategic Planning for Internet 
Dissemination Evaluation and Retrieval (SPIDER) Team for their successful 
work on the earlier guidelines.  If you have any questions about the new 
guidelines, please call Ken Lanfear, Office of Water Information, at 
(703) 648-6852--or e-mail (lanfear@usgs.gov).


					(signed)

					Lewis V. Wade
					Assistant Chief Hydrologist
					 for Water Information


Distribution:  A, B, DC

This memorandum supersedes WRD Memorandum No. 95.04.

This memorandum is being distributed electronically only.