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  • Strategic Outreach at the National Transportation Library
    Strategic Outreach at the National Transportation Library
    Strain, Samantha
    2019-01-15 | PDF
    Presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting 2019, Poster Session 1552: Making Transportation Research Smart, Sustainable, and Equitable Through Libraries, Information, and Data. This poster will detail the development and implementation stages of a coordinated outreach plan at the National Transportation Library (NTL). By do ...
  • Implementing and Maintaining the Freight Data Dictionary 2019 Update
    Implementing and Maintaining the Freight Data Dictionary: 2019 Update
    Wang, Xin ;
    Koduri, Vinod
    2019-01-15 | PDF
    Presented at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting 2019, Poster Session 1552: Making Transportation Research Smart, Sustainable, and Equitable Through Libraries, Information, and Data. National Cooperative Freight Research Program (NCFRP) report 35, Implementing the Freight Transportation Data Architecture: Data Element Dictionary ...
  • National Transportation Library Digital Curation Policy for the Repository and Open Science Access Portal ROSA P
    National Transportation Library Digital Curation Policy for the Repository and Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P)
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Transportation Library
    2024-10-21 | PDF
    The National Transportation Library (NTL) Digital Curation Policy (Version 2.0) outlines the framework for preserving and managing digital transportation research and its outputs. It ensures long-term access to federally funded transportation research through the Repository & Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P). The policy covers acquisition, curat ...
  • National Transportation Librarys Collection Development and Maintenance Policy for the Repository and Open Science Access Portal ROSA P
    National Transportation Library’s Collection Development and Maintenance Policy for the Repository and Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P)
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Transportation Library
    2024-10-21 | PDF
    The National Transportation Library (NTL) Collection Development and Maintenance Policy (Version 2.0) outlines the processes for acquiring, preserving, and providing access to transportation-related digital materials through the Repository & Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P). The policy outline's NTL's focus on collecting a wide range of transpor ...
  • National Transportation Library Metadata Policy
    National Transportation Library Metadata Policy
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Transportation Library
    2024-10-24 | PDF
    Metadata is the information used to organize, describe, index, locate, distribute, preserve, and use a resource. This policy establishes a framework of principles for creating and managing metadata at the National Transportation Library (NTL). It pertains to all types of metadata applied to digital resources in ROSA P, the designated public reposit ...
  • Finding Transportation Statistics
    Finding Transportation Statistics
    United States. Department of Transportation. National Transportation Library
    2024-01-01 | PDF
    National Transportation Library (NTL) guide provides website links to resources related to the transportation industry. Includes statistics resources for general, multimodal, economic, highway, transit/rail, aviation and maritime industries.
  • Sec 5109 e National Transportation Library TEA21
    Sec. 5109 (e): National Transportation Library [TEA-21]
    United States. Congress
    1998-06-09 | PDF
    Established in 1998 by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), the National Transportation Library (NTL): Provides national and international access to transportation information; Coordinates information creation and dissemination; and, Offers reference services for the transportation community. This document is an excerpt of j ...
  • Collections Processing Content Writing Summer Projects at the NTL Archives
    Collections Processing & Content Writing: Summer Projects at the NTL Archives
    Poche, Madeleine
    2024-08-08 | MPEG
    Summer Transportation Internship Program for Diverse Groups (STIPDG) intern Madeleine Poche spent ten weeks interning at the National Transportation Library’s Archives under the mentorship of Archivist/Historian Eden Orelove. In this TLR, Poche presents the four projects that comprised the internship: assisting in processing the Secretary of Transp ...
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  • Digitizing Collections at the National Transportation Library
    Digitizing Collections at the National Transportation Library
    Tietjen, Megan ;
    Rivera-Olds, Josue
    2015-11-12 | MPEG
    Metadata Librarian Megan Tietjen and graduate student Josue Rivera-Olds discuss digitization projects at the National Transportation Library (NTL). Tietjen describes how NTL ingests digitized collections in bulk into the NTL Digital Repository, some of the processes used, and shares example projects. Rivera-Olds presents a collection assessment pro ...
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  • Sec 6304 National Transportation Library MAP21
    Sec. 6304: National Transportation Library [MAP-21]
    United States. Congress
    2012-07-06 | PDF
    Established in 1998 by the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), the National Transportation Library's (NTL) role was expanded by MAP-21 in 2012. MAP-21 mandated that NTL: Acquire, preserve and manage transportation information and information products and services for use by US Department of Transportation (US DOT), other Federa ...
  • Repository Open Science Access Portal CoreTrustSeal Certification 20252028
    Repository & Open Science Access Portal - CoreTrustSeal Certification 2025-2028
    Long, Jesse ;
    Tvrdy, Peyton
    2025-02-27 | PDF
    CoreTrustSeal is an international, community based, non-governmental, and non-profit organization promoting sustainable and trustworthy data infrastructures. CoreTrustSeal offers to any interested data repository a core level certification based on the Core Trustworthy Data Repositories Requirements. This universal catalogue of requirements reflect ...
  • Navigating the Transportation Research Thesaurus TRT
    Navigating the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT)
    Burnett, Beth
    ORCID ICON IMG
    2024-09-04 | MPEG
    This webinar is designed to assist users of the Portfolio Management Data System (PMDS) with understanding the importance of the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT), navigating the TRT site, evaluating projects in PMDS for TRT terms, and tagging research projects with terms from the TRT.
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  • Introducing the Year of Open Science Next Steps in Sharing Transportation Research
    Introducing the Year of Open Science & Next Steps in Sharing Transportation Research
    Christiansen, Leighton L ;
    Long, Jesse
    2023-08-10 | PPTX
    This presentation was originally delivered to the August 10, 2023, Transportation Librarians Roundtable. The NTL staff spoke on the following topics: Introduction to Open Science and The Year of Open Science; a Public Access Plan Update; Persistent Identification; Data Stewardship; Legacy Data Rescue; Truck Inventory and Use Survey/Vehicle Inventor ...
  • Creating DMP Guidance for Iowa DOT Researchers A Long and Winding Road
    Creating DMP Guidance for Iowa DOT Researchers: A Long and Winding Road
    Christiansen, Leighton L ;
    Goetz, Vanessa
    2016-05-26 | MPEG
    This Transportation Librarians Roundtable features speakers Leighton Christiansen from the National Transportation Library and Megan O’Donnell from Iowa State University. They discuss how the Iowa Department of Transportation responded to updated Public Access Plan requirements. The presentation includes the process of implementing Data Management ...
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  • National Transportation Library Annual Update 2024
    National Transportation Library Annual Update 2024
    Alleman, Rosalyn ;
    Burnett, Beth
    2024-12-12 | MPEG
    At the final Transportation Librarians Roundtable (TLR) for 2024, librarians from the National Transportation Library (NTL) shared annual updates. Rosalyn Alleman provided an overview of Reference Team accomplishments, knowledge management, TLR activities, and social media and outreach efforts. Beth Burnett described ROSA P metrics, initiatives inc ...
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  • Implementing a Minimal Cataloging Standard at the National Transportation Library
    Implementing a Minimal Cataloging Standard at the National Transportation Library
    Moulton, Mary ;
    Tietjen, Megan
    2013-12-12 | PDF
    Librarians Mary Moulton and Megan Tietjen with the National Transportation Library (NTL) present this session of the Transportation Librarians Roundtable. Topics covered include an overview of NTL's services and mandates, the adoption of minimal level cataloging, and details of the required and optional metadata fields.
  • Trusted Repository Certification and the National Transportation Library
    Trusted Repository Certification and the National Transportation Library
    Moulton, Mary
    ORCID ICON IMG
    2014-12-11 | MPEG
    The National Transportation Library (NTL) undertook a major initiative in 2014 focusing on upgrading, stabilizing, and enhancing NTL’s digital repository platform. Requirements of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy’s Public Access Plan Memo, NTL’s expanded legislative mandate under MAP-21, and developments in the repository fie ...
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  • Data Stewardship The Bridge to Optimize Research Data Management RDM across the Data Lifecycle
    Data Stewardship: The Bridge to Optimize Research Data Management (RDM) across the Data Lifecycle
    Long, Jesse ;
    Tvrdy, Peyton
    2024-01-08 | PDF
    The practice of scientific research in the digital age has led to a significant increase in the amount of data generated and collected, resulting in a data deluge. In response, good practices for the management of research data -- from collection to long-term preservation and reuse -- have emerged both nationally and globally. Implementation of the ...
  • National Transportation Library Datasets File Formats Dictionary
    National Transportation Library Datasets File Formats Dictionary
    Tvrdy, Peyton ;
    Long, Jesse
    2024-02-07 | PDF
    This is a file format dictionary created by the National Transportation Library's Data Services Team. This dictionary is used as a part of the Data Services Team's implementation of the Data Curation Network's (DCN) CURATED Workflow. This file format dictionary is used by the team during the cataloging of datasets, geodatabases, software, databases ...
  • Open Discussion and Summer Conference WrapUp 2018
    Open Discussion and Summer Conference Wrap-Up 2018
    McHenry, Renee ;
    Barnes, Kevyn
    2018-08-09 | MPEG
    Members of the transportation library community provide updates of their activities. We hear from the AASHTO RAC Collaboration and Coordination Task Force’s Transportation Knowledge Network Working Group, the SLA Division of Transportation, the Western Transportation Knowledge Network, the Midwestern Transportation Knowledge Network, the Eastern Tr ...
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