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  • 2026 Spring DLC National Transportation Library Resources and Services
    2026 Spring DLC: National Transportation Library Resources and Services
    Alleman, Rosalyn
    2026-03-04 | PDF
    The National Transportation Library (NTL) is a born-digital library which collects Government-funded transportation research and other materials, provides reference services to the public, coordinates the National Transportation Knowledge Network, and supports BTS transportation statistical data products. Created by the Transportation Equity Act fo ...
    Supporting Files
  • National Transportation Library Annual Update 2025
    National Transportation Library Annual Update 2025
    Alleman, Rosalyn ;
    Evans, Tyler
    2025-12-11 | MP4
    Staff from the National Transportation Library (NTL) showcase activities and accomplishments from 2025 at this Transportation Librarians Roundtable. Rosalyn Alleman, Reference Librarian, provided an overview of NTL's legislative mandates, services, and news plus highlights of the Reference Team's work. Acquisitions Librarian Tyler Evans described N ...
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  • Changing Platforms A Repository Migration Itinerary
    Changing Platforms: A Repository Migration Itinerary
    Burnett, Beth
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    2025-08-21 | MP4
    The National Transportation Library (NTL) has been working on migrating to a new digital repository platform, aiming to improve functionality and features for both the front and back end. The journey to a new repository requires careful planning to ensure the community of stakeholders reaches the destination with minimal disruptions. This presentat ...
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  • Rescuing Legacy Data Using Optical Character Recognition Technologies to Make Airline Consumer Data Accessible
    Rescuing Legacy Data: Using Optical Character Recognition Technologies to Make Airline Consumer Data Accessible
    Tvrdy, Peyton
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    2025-06-16 | PDF
    Since 1971, The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has produced Air Travel Consumer Report data tables as physical documents and online as PDFs. These documents contain information and data tables collected by USDOT tabulating grievances from consumer letters and filings against airlines. These data tables are now being extracted and convert ...
  • NonTraditional Roles that Librarians Play
    Non-Traditional Roles that Librarians Play
    Herron, Jennifer ;
    Alleman, Rosalyn
    2025-04-10 | MP4
    This Transportation Librarians Roundtable features a panel discussion centered on the non-traditional roles that librarians play. Jennifer Herron (Michigan Department of Transportation Library), Rosalyn Alleman (National Transportation Library), and Michael Molina (Oklahoma Transportation Library) share the wide-ranging responsibilities they have e ...
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  • 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 ...
  • National Transportation Library Annual Update 2024
    National Transportation Library Annual Update 2024
    Alleman, Rosalyn ;
    Burnett, Beth
    2024-12-12 | MP4
    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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  • 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 ...
  • 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 ...
  • Navigating the Transportation Research Thesaurus TRT
    Navigating the Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT)
    Burnett, Beth
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    2024-09-04 | MP4
    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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  • 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 | MP4
    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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  • Integrating the DCN CURATED Steps into the National Transportation Librarys NTL Workflow
    Integrating the DCN CURATE(D) Steps into the National Transportation Library's (NTL) Workflow
    Long, Jesse
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    2024-02-07 | PDF
    The National Transportation Library's Data Services Team had adopted and created training for the Data Curation Network's (DCN) CURATED Workflow (https://datacurationnetwork.org/outputs/workflows/). The goal of the CURATE(D) Training is to offer an introduction to applied data curation. This training is designed for those completely new to data cur ...
  • 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 ...
  • Curators to the Rescue Using ABBYY FineReader PDF Software to Make Accessible Legacy Documents and Datasets
    Curators to the Rescue! Using ABBYY FineReader PDF Software to Make Accessible Legacy Documents and Datasets
    Tvrdy, Peyton
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    2024-01-25 | MP4
    This webinar covers legacy data rescue and TIUS/VIUS data. Legacy data is data that's outdated due to its system, format, technology, and relevance. It could have historical, cultural, or other uses to researchers. The second half of the webinar is a demonstration of the ABBYY FineReader PDF software that helps with making digitized documents acces ...
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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 ...
  • 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.
  • Data Curation Practices to Optimize Research Coordination Preservation and Reuse
    Data Curation Practices to Optimize Research Coordination, Preservation, and Reuse
    Christiansen, Leighton L ;
    Long, Jesse
    2023-12-15 | PDF
    Transportation research organizations must implement a number of funder requirements around technology transfer, data sharing, and public access to research outputs. Further, the practice of scientific research in the digital age is fostering other changes such as the global movement to open science. Tech transfer, data sharing, public access, and ...
  • Curators to the Rescue New Strategies for Making Legacy Data Accessible to the Public
    Curators to the Rescue: New Strategies for Making Legacy Data Accessible to the Public
    Tvrdy, Peyton ;
    Long, Jesse
    2023-12-15 | PDF
    As the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS) in 2019 began planning for the 2021 return of the Vehicle Inventory and Use Survey (VIUS), the National Transportation Library (NTL) Data Services team was tasked with locating and sharing the historic, digital data tables and reports from the previous VIUS surveys. The NTL Data Services team was abl ...
  • Data Management is a Sideshow Pangs or Data Management and Sharing Plans
    “Data Management is a ‘Sideshow’ Pangs” or Data Management and Sharing Plans?
    Christiansen, Leighton L ;
    Long, Jesse
    2023-12-15 | PDF
    Does the phrase “Data Management” scare you? Are you feeling DMPs are a distraction rather than a vital part of the research process main event? Does DMP evaluation feel like a rigged carnival game, with no way to win? Does it feel like you have eaten too much cotton candy?Have no Fear! The National Transportation Library Data Services Team is here ...
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