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Files in directory /pub/sdts/articles/wp 

FILE NAME       DATE           DESCRIPTION

README         01/97     Information on File format

conftest.wp    11/93     Paper: "Conformance Testing For The Spatial Data 
                            Transfer Standard", written by Robert Lazar

design.wp      12/92     Article: "Design of a Spatial Data Transfer Processor"
                            from American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, 
                            written by Phyllis Altheide (Reproduced from 
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)

dlgsdts.wp     12/92     Article: "Conversion of a U.S. Geological Survey DLG-3
                            Data Set to the SDTS Topological Vector Profile"   
                            from American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, 
                            written by Michael G. Williams (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)

encode.wp      12/92     Article: "An Implementation Strategy for SDTS Encoding"
                            from American Congress on Surveying and Mapping,
                            written by Phyllis Altheide (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)
 
iso8211.wp     05/92     Presentation notes for:  "ISO 8211 Standard for the 
                            Spatial Data Transfer Standard" (STDS Workshop)


library.wp     05/92     Article: "SDTS Support Software: The FIPS 123 Function
                            Library" from American Congress on Surveying and
                            Mapping, written by Robert Lazar (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)  

local.wp       12/92     Article: "Opportunities for Use of the Spatial Data 
                            Transfer Standard at the State and Local Level"
                            from American Congress on Surveying and Mapping,
                            written by Harold Moellering (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)

manage.wp      12/92     Article: "The Spatial Data Transfer Standard (FIPS123):
                            A Management Perspective" from American Congress on
                            Surveying and Mapping, written by Kathryn Neff 
                            (Reproduced from Cartography and Geographic 
                            Information Systems)

modules.wp     09/93     SDTS Module Types list

overview.wp    12/92     Article: "An Overview of FIPS 173, The Spatial Data 
                            Transfer Standard" from American Congress on 
                            Surveying and Mapping, written by Robin Fegeas, 
                            Janette L. Cascio, and Robert Lazar (Reproduced from
                            Cartography and Geographic Information Systems)    

padesign.wp    05/92     Presentation notes: "Using the Spatial Data Transfer
                            Standard:  The Design of a Spatial Data Transfer 
                            Processor" (SDTS Workshop)

part1tlk.wp    08/93     SDTS Part 1: A Conceptual Model of Spatial Data, 
                            Specifications for a Data Quality Report, Logical
                            Transfer Format Specifications

part2tlk.wp    08/93     SDTS Part 2: Spatial Features

part3tlk.wp    05/92     Presentation notes: "SDTS Part 3: ISO 8211 Encoding" 
                            (SDTS Workshop)

planenc.wp     05/92     Presentation notes: "Using the Spatial Data Transfer
                            Standard: An Inplementation Plan for Encoding"
                            (SDTS Workshop)

profiles_93.wp 11/93     Paper: "Profile Developement for the Spatial Data 
                            Transfer Standard", written by John A. Szemraj and
                            Billy R. Tolar 

profiles_97.wp 09/97    Paper: "SDTS Profiles", written by Charles Hickman and
                            presented at the FGDC SDTS Workshop, Sept. 1997.
raster.wp      12/92     Article: "Developing a Raster Profile for the Spatial 
                            Data Transfer Standard" from American Congress on 
                            Surveying and Mapping, written by David D. Greenlee
                            (Reproduced from Cartography and Geographic 
                            Information Systems)

register.wp    11/93     Paper: "A Spatial Features Register: Toward Standardi-
                            zation of Spatial Features" written by Janette 
                            Casico

sdts_tutorial.wpd  03/99  Manual: Retrieving and Unpacking SDTS Data, 
                            Tutorial and Users manual, Applies to USGS Data.

tiger1.wp      12/92     Article: "TIGER/SDTS: Standardizing an Innovation" from
                            American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, written
                            by Beverly A. Davis, Jack R. George, and Robert W.
                            Marx (Reproduced from Cartography and Geographic
                            Information Systems)

tiger2.wp      12/92     Article: "TIGER/SDTS Topology" from American Congress 
                            on Surveying and Mapping, written by John A.
                            Szemraj (Reproduced from Cartography and 
                            Geographic Information Systems)

translators.wpd   03/99   Translating SDTS data to other formats

tvppaper.wp   12/92      Article: "The SDTS Topological Vector Profile" from 
                            American Congress on Surveying and Mapping, written
                            by Robert Lazar (Reproduced from Cartography and
                            Geographic Information Systems)