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Researching Legacy Records to Modernize Transportation Subject Keywords
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2022-07-21
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Abstract: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 research. The project involved identifying appropriate metadata fields for bulk updates, prioritizing 508 compliance remediation, enhancing metadata, applying uncontrolled keywords for Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA), and deduplicating records. This presentation covered some limitations of the Transportation Research Thesaurus: how it lacks sufficient terms to index transportation research that relates to people; index terms that are not descriptive enough or are outdated; the need to reevaluate and update older terms; and the emerging practice in the field of using communities’ preferred terminology. Coleman, Ham, and Lee also discuss limitations of the NTL’s Workroom system that does not provide multiple controlled vocabularies and how this project was a proof-of-concept for subject term research. This Transportation Librarians Roundtable was part of a multi-month series focusing on Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access (IDEA), and the practical and professional applications of those values in our libraries and on behalf of those who we serve.
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Content Notes:Recording length: 56m 21s
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