To: | "Eastern Transportation Knowledge Network" <etkn-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
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Cc: | "Wilson, Amanda <RITA>" <Amanda.Wilson@xxxxxxx> |
From: | "Boteler, Jennifer" <Jennifer.Boteler@xxxxxxxxxxxx> |
Date: | Tue, 30 Sep 2008 14:55:51 -0400 |
Message-id: | <799F440673301546B335CAA16FD876611929A7@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> |
Ken, Thank you for forwarding this information from Amanda. I realize you are only the messenger, but I am still quite unclear about the purpose, audience, and scope of the Climate Change Project. I'm copying Amanda this email so maybe she or someone from the AASHTO RAC Task Force on TKNs can provide some clarification. Are they only interested in climate change information that relates to transportation (extreme weather effects on infrastructure, improved public transportation, fuel efficiency, reduced CO2 emissions) or all climate change related information (which would be a massive undertaking)? Amanda uses the word “clearinghouse.” What exactly does that mean? Will NTL be creating a separate collection/database of climate change documents similar to the NTL Digital Repository? Or will it be a web-based annotated bibliography of climate change related publications? If so, how will it be arranged? By format (journal articles, reports, websites) or by publisher or by state or by subject (which would affect how information would be collected and reported)? When you say that the information would be featured at this site… http://climate.dot.gov/ do you know where it will be featured-- under categories already listed in the left-hand frame or will there a new category? If so, what is the category? When Amanda says, “The TKNs would address things from their organizations/states that don't already appear or are included in some resource in the following list.” Already appear where? Has someone already done a comprehensive literature search or web search to identify climate change publications that we need to check against our state specific resources? And what about overlap? If someone has already searched for resources from federal agencies and found publications published by them but in collaboration/cooperation with a state agency or organization, we’ll have multiple people searching for and finding the same information. What is the search process the task force envisions us taking? Will we all be searching the same resources? If so, that’s a duplication of effort we can ill afford. Speaking of which, I’m wondering if this project isn’t already a duplication of effort. I did a quick Google search for climate change or global warming and found tons of websites devoted to this topic, including those of organizations listed in Amanda’s email. If the organizations have already compiled web pages devoted to climate change, what are we looking to do differently? Government
EPA
NOAA Climate Analysis Branch
USDA Global Climate Change
California - portal
UN
FAO
IPCC Links to government websites
NGO/think tank/industry
Pew Center on Global Climate Change
Union of Concerned Scientists
Sierra Club
Environmental Defense Fund
Other
Also, are there plans to include resources from Naysayers, such as http://www.globalwarming.org/ ? --Jennifer -----Original Message-----
Dear ETKN Members- At last Thursday's conference call we discussed the request by the AASHTO RAC Task Force on TKNs for our help (on a state by state basis) to find information on climate change and funnel it to the National Transportation library. Ultimately, that information would be featured at this site, which is scheduled to be unveiled in January 2008: http://climate.dot.gov/ When we last spoke, we discussed what we can do on a "volunteer" basis, and especially the fact that the scope of the project and the extent of the information needed was perhaps not as clear as it needed to be. Amanda Wilson, director of the NTL, just sent me this, which starts to clarify the information need. My question to you: Is this something you care to work on between now and January 2009? Please feel free to respond to me on this listserv or off list. I can relay your responses (not identities) to the appropriate parties for feedback. They may not understand the full nature of what they are asking, but this gives you some insight into their thinking. I am not advocating any specific course of action, but want to rely the request on to you as individual libraries for response. Please see message below. Kathy Szolomayer and John Cherney are chairs of the WTKN and MTKN, respectively. Ken Winter, MLIS
-----Original Message-----
Dear Ken, John, Marie,
From: Wilson, Amanda <RITA>
Dear Kathy,
Title Author (R) Publication Date (format: yyyy-mm-dd) Report Number Size (in KB or MB) Format (pdf or html) Abstract Category (report, website, article, etc.) URL This clearinghouse is being developed as part of an NCHRP project that is run out of FHWA. Their timing to go live is TRB. So, I don't thing there will be anything up for public view (or private as far as I know) by mid-Oct. NTL will begin maintaining once it's gone live. Also, the scope of the clearinghouse listed below. The TKNs would address things from their organizations/states that don't already appear or are included in some resource in the following list.
Journals & publications Include all peer reviewed journals * Transport Policy
* TCRP
* TRIS database
*
Government * DOT publications
* IPCC
* DOE
* NRCAN
* Foreign Governments subject to review
NGO/think tank/industry * AASHTO * APTA * Environmental Defense * PEW * Center for Clean Air Policy * Resources for the Future * UIC * Union of Concerned Scientists * American Trucking Association * Air Transport Association * Brookings Institution * Urban Institute * Urban Land Institute * Smart Growth America * National Center for Smart Growth * Reconnecting America * Lincoln Institute for Land Use * World Resources Institute * UITP * Natural Resources Defense Council * American Petroleum Institute * Cato Institute * American Association of Railroads * EDTA * Edison Electric * EPRI * American road and transportation builders association * Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences * AMPO * American Planning Assoc
Major Media Outlets (such as but not limited to) * New York Times * Washington Post * Wall Street Journal * Economist * Time * Newsweek * US News
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