The National Transportation Library (NTL) is currently working to expand the National Transportation Data Archive (NTDA). Recently, this work has focused on successfully implementing data management strategies for legacy datasets, such as the Omnibus Household Surveys (OHS). Improper data management took place at the time that OHS data was being co
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National Transportation Knowledge Network (NTKN) is a voluntary alliance of transportation organizations, which supports a network of transportation information professionals, who collaborate to expand, improve access to, and preserve the domain of transportation knowledge. The purpose of NTKN is to coordinate with transportation research centers,
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The Repository and Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P) is the designated institutional repository for research funded by the U.S. Department of Transportation under the USDOT Public Access Plan. Managed by the National Transportation Library (NTL), this repository plays a crucial role in the collection, management, and preservation of research outp
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Legacy data—data collected or compiled in the past and stored in obsolete formats (e.g., paper and floppy disks)—can be made accessible via the process of data rescue, which may be as simple as scanning documents or, to achieve machine readability, as complex as developing artificial intelligence algorithms. Machine readability not only facilitates
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The National Transportation Library (NTL) scanning project is dedicated to digitizing the US Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Office of the Secretary (OST) Collection. The OST Collection is a series of documents published by DOT OST from 1969 to 1997. This collection includes newsletters, press releases, broadcast scripts, and technical abstr
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This presentation was made to staff at the National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) at the National Science Foundation (NSF). 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, interopera
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This webinar reviews various aspects of the U.S. DOT Public Access Plan, including: Opening U.S. Government-Funded Research Data; U.S. DOT Public Access Review; Submitting Final Reports and Final Datasets; Benefits of Data Management; Writing Data Management Plans; and, Implementing Data Management Plans. [Recording length: 52 minutes]
On April 5, 2019, USDOT held a workshop titled: Building a National Transportation Data Preservation Network. The workshop was collocated with the Research Data Alliance (RDA) 13th Plenary. The event brought together thirteen librarians, researchers, repository managers, and others involved in data management efforts to discuss feasibility, rewards
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Speakers from the National Transportation Library present information about Section 508 Accessibility compliance for research submitted to ROSA P. This is part two of a two-part TLR.
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
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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
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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.The National Transportation Knowledge Network (NTKN) is a voluntary alliance of transportation organizations, which supports a network of transportat
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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. The National Transportation Library (NTL) was founded as an all-digital repository of US DOT research reports, technical publications and data produ
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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. The Repository and Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P) is the designated institutional repository for research funded by the U.S. Department of Tran
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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 outlines the creation of metrics dashboards for the National Transportation Library (NTL) and the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (B
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Staff from the National Transportation Library (NTL) share updates from 2018 at this annual Transportation Librarians Roundtable end-of-year tradition. Aileen Nolan and Laura Farley describe NTL metrics projects. Nolan created a ROSA P dashboard in Tableau and manually updates it each month. Farley tracks Reference and BTS website metrics. Referenc
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The AASHTO RAC Summer meeting was held in July 2018. One of the sessions covered Transportation Knowledge Network topics and the future status of libraries. Jen Harper and Renee McHenry share highlights of that session and invite insights on possible solutions to the issues that were presented. Mary Moulton provides highlights about the National Tr
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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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In this presentation, the Data Curation team from the National Transportation Library, will give an overview of the US DOT Public Access Plan; provide you with useful tools for writing Data Management Plans, as well as improving data collection and sharing; and discuss how to keep those data management plans up to date over the research lifecycle.
The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Plan to Increase Public Access to the Results of Federally-Funded Scientific Research (PA), requires, in part, that “digitally formatted scientific data resulting from unclassified research supported wholly or in part by Federal funding to be stored and publicly accessible for search, retrieval
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