As an all-digital repository of transportation knowledge, the National Transportation Library (NTL) has undertaken several digitization projects over the years to preserve legacy print materials and make them accessible to stakeholders, researchers, and the general public. In keeping with the library's collection development policy, NTL is particul
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The National Transportation Library (NTL) is an all-digital repository of transportation knowledge that falls under federal mandates to “serve as a central clearinghouse for transportation data and information of the Federal Government.” as well as “use best practices in digital preservation and search to optimize archiving, dissemination, and sear
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The National Transportation Library (NTL) was founded as an all-digital repositoryof US DOT research reports, technical publications and data products. NTL’s primary public offering is ROSA P, the Repository and Open Science Access Portal. An open access repository hosted by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), ROSA P is designated as the full-te
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This TLR (Transportation Librarians Roundtable) presentation discusses National Transportation Library (NTL) services, especially technological infrastructure changes and improvements to patron services. The presenters, NTL staff, take you behind the scenes of its Reference FAQs and its new digital repository, the Research and Open Science Access P
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To help commemorate the 10th anniversary of the debut of the Transportation Librarians Roundtable (TLR), Amanda Wilson serves as this TLR's speaker. Amanda Wilson played a vital role in planning and launching the TLR in 2007, and, for most of the past decade, served as its guiding light. The presentation discusses how the TLR came into existence an
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At the RDA Eighth Plenary Meeting, staff from the National Transportation Library (NTL), part of the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), introduced the research data community to the efforts NTL is making to open data created by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT), its contract researchers, and BTS to researchers and the public. Ov
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This Transportation Librarians Roundtable (TLR) introduces the National Transportation Library's new digital repository, the Repository and Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P). National Transportation Library (NTL) staff introduce ROSA P, and invite users to participate in testing the new software during a soft launch phase.
The legislative mandate for the National Transportation Library (NTL) includes direction to serve as the central repository for transportation information and a portal to federal transportation data. This mandate means that NTL’s Repository and Open Science Access Portal (ROSA P) is the permanent repository for publications in the USDOT Public Acce
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The National Transportation Library's (NTL) Repository and Open Science Portal (ROSA P)is a digital library for transportation, including U. S. Department of Transportationsponsored research results and technical publications, other documents and imagesrelated to U.S. transportation, and a central clearinghouse for transportation researchdata. The
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On April 1, 1967, the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) opened and began operations in Washington, DC. This poster is a story map of that day. A story map is a visualization tool that organizes text, maps, photos, and multimedia content to tell a story. The authors look at USDOT’s opening day through multiple lenses. Historical resources av
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Nicole Strayhorn discusses using Tableau to create data visualizations of the National Transportation Library’s collections. The session includes a look at how the NTL is using visualization techniques for collection assessment, examples of uses for Tableau, and ideas for future applications.Introduction by Amanda J. Wilson.
The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) Public Access Plan was issued in November 2015, in response to the February 22, 2013 Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) Memorandum for the Heads of Executive Departments and Agencies entitled "Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research ." Through this memorandum
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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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This Transportation Librarians Roundtable (TLR) focuses on the USDOT Public Access Plan and its implications for transportation librarians. The speakers include Amanda Wilson, National Transportation Library (NTL) Director; Charles Ducker, Senior Departmental IP Counsel; Tim Klein, Acting Director, Technology and Policy Outreach, Office of the Assi
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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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This Transportation Librarians Roundtable (TLR) discusses the use of unique ORCID identifiers to disambiguate transportation authorship. The speakers include Paul R. Burley, of Northwestern University, and Leighton Christiansen, of Iowa DOT.
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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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.
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
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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
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