Dataset Identification:

Resource Abstract:
This file represents the boundaries of all public school districts in the state of Minnesota for school year 2005-2006. Minnesota school districts identify their current elementary, middle and high school attendance area boundaries on a yearly basis using large format maps supplied by the Land Management Information Center (LMIC). This file is maintained at LMIC but is also supplied to the State of Minnesota Legislative Coordinating Commission GIS Office. The LCC keeps the 'official' school district information for the State of Minnesota. This school district file was dissolved from a file containing both the school district and attendance boundaries to produce just school district boundaries.
Citation
Title Minnesota School District Boundaries, School Year 2005-2006
publication  Date   2005-10-14
cited responsible party - publisher
organisation Name  Land Management Information Center
Contact information
Address
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cited responsible party - originator
organisation Name  Land Management Information Center
cited responsible party -
organisation Name
Contact information
Linkage for online resource
URL:ftp://ftp.lmic.state.mn.us/pub/data/admin_poli/sd06.exe
Topic Category:  boundaries, school district, school, K-12
purpose:
Through a partnership with the Minnesota Department of Education, Food and Nutrition Service (MDE-FNS), LMIC maintains school district and attendance boundaries on a yearly basis. This information is developed into a GIS data set and, along with additional information, is used by MDE-FNS to identify program financial priorities. It also provides a map of school district boundaries which supports a variety of mapping and data analysis applications.
Browse image (thumbnail):
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Resource language:  eng; USA
Resource progress code:  completed
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
Constraints on resource usage:
Constraints
Use limitation statement:
The Geographic Information System (GIS) Data to which this notice is attached are made available pursuant to the Minnesota Government Data Practices Act (Minnesota Statutes Chapter 13). The Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) and the Land Management Information Center (LMIC) do not warrant the results you may obtain by using this dataset. This dataset is provided ''as is'' without express or implied warranties, including warranties of merchantability and fitness. In no event will MDE or LMIC be liable for any consequential, incidental or special damages, including any lost profits or lost savings, even if an MDE or LMIC representative has been advised of the possibility of such damages or any other claim by any third party.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
use constraint:  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Use Constraints: If you obtain data from LMIC, it is understood that you and/or your organization have the right to use them for any internal purpose. If you modify them, you should document those changes in a metadata record that should accompany all redistributed data. If you transmit or provide these data in any form to another user, the data MUST be accompanied by a copy of LMIC's disclaimer NOTICE.TXT and all documentation provided with the original data set including the full metadata record.
Constraints on resource usage:
Legal Constraints
Access Constraints  otherRestrictions
Other constraints
Access Constraints: None
Spatial representation type code:  vector
Processing environment:  Native Dataset Environment: ArcGIS 8
Resource extent
Geographic Extent
Geographic Bounding Box
westBoundLongitude  -97.269854
eastBoundLongitude  -89.389133
northBoundLatitude  49.404388
southBoundLatitude  43.435253
Temporal Extent
2006-01-01
Additional information on resource:
Minnesota
point of contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Scott Freburg
organisation Name  Land Management Information Center
position Name GIS Project Coordinator
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 651-201-2499
Fax 651-296-3698
Address
658 Cedar Street, Room 300, St. Paul, MN, 55155
electronic Mail Addressgisinfo.mngeo@state.mn.us
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Grid spatial representation

number of grid dimensions: 2
Grid axis property:
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  column
Dimension Size
Grid Dimension
Dimension Name:  row
Dimension Size
transformation parameter availability:  false
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Content information: feature catalog description

Included With Dataset  false
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Scope of quality information
scope level  dataset
Resource lineage description
source
source description  Source Contribution: Source Type
representative resolution scale:
Scale denominator:
Resource extent
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Horizontal Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description  Positional accuracy of the data sources varies widely. Source scales range between 1:24,000 and 1:100,000. Many of the boundaries are hand-drawn by the school districts. See notes on potential boundary inaccuracies under 'Lineage'.
AbsoluteExternalPositionalAccuracy
name Of Measure Vertical Positional Accuracy Report
evaluation Method Description
Completeness Commission
evaluation Method Description  All school districts within Minnesota are included.
Completeness Omission
evaluation Method Description  All school districts within Minnesota are included.
ConceptualConsistency
measure Description  Data (in coverage format) are topologically structured and verified within ARC/INFO.

Resource distribution information

Distributor
distributor contact - distributor
individual Name Nancy Rader
organisation Name  Land Management Information Center
position Name GIS Data Coordination Specialist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 651-201-2489
Fax 651-296-3698
Address
658 Cedar Street, Room 300, St. Paul, MN, 55155
electronic Mail Addressgisinfo.mngeo@state.mn.us
Standard ordering process
fees
Ordering Instructions  Ordering Instructions: 1. GIS data: this data set is distributed on the internet by clicking below after Online Linkage. Doing so will tell your browser to start downloading a self-extracting 'ZIP' file which will contain the following: - The school district boundary data in both shapefile (.shp, .shx., .dbf) and coverage (.e00) formats - Documentation (.html) - NOTICE.RTF, an important notice about this data set that can be read by most word processing software, and an ascii text version of the same notice (NOTICE.TXT) After downloading this self-extracting 'zip' file (which will have an 'exe' extension), simply execute (run) the file. (For example, you can double click it from Windows Explorer or File Manager). Doing this will automatically extract the files described above. 2. School district maps: These maps show district and attendance boundaries, and public and non-public school program locations. Download in PDF format or order printed wallmaps from: http://www.mnplan.state.mn.us/maps/SchoolDistricts/
Format
Format name Shapefile, coverage
Format version
Metadata data stamp:  2007-04-11
Resource Maintenance Information
maintenance or update frequency:  annually
notes: This metadata was automatically generated from the Minnesota Geographic Metadata Guidelines standard (version 1.2) using the 2012-06-20T17:21:00 version of the FGDC RSE to ISO 19115-2 transform.
Metadata contact - pointOfContact
individual Name Nancy Rader
organisation Name  Land Management Information Center
position Name GIS Data Coordination Specialist
Contact information
Telephone
Voice 651-201-2489
Fax 651-296-3698
Address
658 Cedar Street, Room 300, St. Paul, MN, 55155
electronic Mail Addressgisinfo.mngeo@state.mn.us
Metadata scope code  dataset
Metadata language  eng; USA
Metadata character set encoding:   utf8
Metadata standard for this record:  ISO 19115-2 Geographic Information - Metadata - Part 2: Extensions for Imagery and Gridded Data
standard version:  ISO 19115-2:2009(E)
Metadata record identifier:  51574a8e-1090-4601-85bc-23050cc93332

Metadata record format is ISO19139-2 XML (MI_Metadata)