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Title:

Enhancing Access to a Nation’s Land Transport Information: A Digitization Case Study

Accession Number:

01622804

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

The main drivers for digitization of hard-copy collections are improvements in information access and reductions in physical storage requirements. For these to be realised however there are decisions to be made on resourcing both the digitization process and the establishment and maintenance of the repository in which they will be housed. This paper outlines the journey that the MG Lay Library at ARRB Group in Australia has taken since mid-2014 to develop the ARRB Knowledge Base, now a full text searchable and freely accessible repository of over 10,000 published documents. In doing so the paper also aims to highlight the benefits of a nationally funded program to support land transport information management.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee ABG40 Standing Committee on Library and Information Science for Transportation.

Monograph Accession #:

01618707

Report/Paper Numbers:

17-01109

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Meier, Andrew
McPherson, Meegan
Aron, Jill

Pagination:

12p

Publication Date:

2017

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 96th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2017-1-8 to 2017-1-12
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

References; Tables

Identifier Terms:

ARRB Group Ltd

Geographic Terms:

Australia

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Transportation (General)

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2017 Paper #17-01109

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 8 2016 10:19AM