In this month’s Transportation Librarians Roundtable (TLR), Cara Marcus and Mary Moulton provide an update from the Special Libraries Association Transportation Community (SLATRAN). The SLA Transportation Community was established in 1943 and has an active membership that participates in the SLA Annual Meeting.
During this last meeting of 2022, librarians from the National Transportation Library (NTL) present the 2022 annual report. Mary Moulton shares information about new collections in ROSA P, collection development and digitization projects, and collaboration with federal agencies. Moulton also provides an update about changes coming to the DOT Public
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This presentation goes into detail on what data curation is, and how the presenters believe the practices of data curation can make federal statistics more transparent, as well as accessible, interoperable, and preservable. This record includes the slide deck and a pdf handout. Both files include the speaker notes for easy reference.
In this presentation to the Open Mobility Foundation’s (OMF) Privacy, Security, and Transparency Committee, NTL Data Curator, Leighton Christiansen, data retention planning, policies, and actions.
NTL interns Naomi Coleman, Jacob Ham, and Maria Lee describe a reparative cataloging project focused on the FTA 50th Anniversary collection in ROSA P. This collection is important is because of renewed interest from the public and policymakers in mass transportation and the historical preservation of an important time period for transportation rese
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Each December, the National Transportation Library traditionally provides an annual report at the Transportation Librarians Roundtable. For this 2021 report, Rosalyn Alleman, Mary Moulton, and Jesse Long share updates and projects completed during the year. They also share a preview of projects slated for the coming year.
David Gansz, Director of the National Transportation Library, discusses how information has come to be treated as a commodity, which has had a profound impact on libraries and librarians. Gansz proposes an alternative to measuring the value of libraries via quantifiable transactions like gate counts, checkouts, clicks, and downloads. Libraries can
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Presentation slides for Evaluating Data Management Plans (DMPs): Researchers’ Development of a Data Management Plan: Session 2 for Federal Aviation Administration. Supplemental files include a PDF handout of the slides with speakers' notes; a sample DMP; and, the DMP Evaluation Checklist tool.
Presentation slides for Data Management Plans (DMPs) for Research Proposals: Researchers’ Development of a Data Management Plan: Session 1 for Federal Aviation Administration. Supplemental files include a PDF handout of the slides with speakers' notes; a plaint text DMP template; and, a DMP template formatted in Microsoft Word.
This presentation was made to DOT researchers at the Federal Aviation Administration's William J. Hughes Technical Center and the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute. NTL Data Curator, Leighton Christiansen, went into detail on the US DOT Public Access Plan, its context, and resources for implementation. This record includes the slide deck and a pdf
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In this presentation at the Federal Aviation Administration WJHTC/CAMI Library Services for Researchers Event, NTL Data Curator, Leighton Christiansen, give a brief presentation on the US DOT Public Access Plan, its context, and resources for implementation.
The presentation gives overview of Open Science policies and practices within the United States government, and how these relate to the COVID-19 pandemic, to date. While most of my examples will come from the Department of Transportation, discussion of government-wide activities and resources, including data.gov, is included.This record includes 3
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This Transportation Librarians Roundtable (TLR) features staff from the National Transportation Library (NTL). The update includes highlights of the NTL staff’s work throughout this unusual year. NTL's new Director David Gansz provides the introduction. Vicki Milam and Charlotte Gavin give an overview of new reference services, LibChat, and interli
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End-of-practicum presentation on cleaning up BTS-generated Government Transportation Financial Statistics (GTFS) datasets by adopting "Tidy Data" formatting.
The National Transportation Library (NTL) at the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) provides national and international access to the crucial transportation information that falls within the scope of grey literature, including the results of U.S. government funded research. Founded as an all-digital library in 1998, NTL’s collection
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The National Transportation Library (NTL) was founded as an all-digital repository of US DOT research reports, technical publications and data products. NTL’s primary public offering is ROSA P, the Repository and Open Science Access Portal. In addition to functioning as the full-text archive for results of USDOT-funded research, ROSA P is also home
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In early 2019, USDOT sponsored a workshop titled: Building a National Transportation Data Preservation Network. The event brought together thirteen librarians, researchers, repository managers, and others involved in data management efforts to discuss feasibility, rewards, and challenges to building a network or consortium of trustworthy repositori
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There is a common myth among internet searchers that they “can find anything with a search engine,” and therefore don’t need a librarian’s help. However, these searchers may not understand the difference between “finding” an article citation online, and actually having “access” to the paper. Often times, access is blocked or limited by a journal pa
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