Since the clearinghouse
is based on a NCHRP project, I have contact the NCHRP Program Officer to get
more information on what scope of the clearinghouse is and what types of
material will be included. Unfortunately, he has been in panel meetings
all week so I haven’t been able to connect with him. So many of the
journals and publications of organizations mentioned in the e-mail are already
indexed and abstracted in TRIS. Currently, there about 450 TRIS records
that have Climate Change or Global Warming as index terms. I would hope
resources would not wasted by creating new meta-data for these. >From brief
interactions – the goal of the clearinghouse was to link to sources already
available but I really need some more clarification. I will let you when I
learn more about the scope and design of the clearinghouse as being developed by
the NCHRP project.
Barbara Post
Manager, Information
Services
Transportation Research
Board
Phone: (202)
334-2990
E-Mail:
bpost@xxxxxxx
From:
etkn-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:etkn-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Boteler,
Jennifer
Sent: Tuesday,
September 30, 2008 2:56 PM
To:
Eastern Transportation Knowledge Network
Cc: Wilson, Amanda <RITA>
Subject: Re: [etkn-forum] FW: Climate
Change Project info
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
Federal – portal
Science.gov
http://www.science.gov/browse/w_123E.htm
EPA
http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/
NOAA Climate Analysis
Branch
http://www.cdc.noaa.gov/
USDA Global Climate
Change
http://www.usda.gov/oce/global_change/index.htm
California -
portal
http://www.globalwarmingcalifornia.net/about/index.html
UN
http://www.un.org/climatechange/
FAO
http://www.fao.org/climatechange/home/en/
IPCC Links to government
websites
http://www.ipcc.ch/links/index.htm
NGO/think
tank/industry
NCSL
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/ClimateChange.htm
http://www.ncsl.org/programs/environ/ClimatePubs.htm
Pew
Center on Global
Climate Change
http://www.pewclimate.org/
Union of Concerned
Scientists
http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/
Sierra Club
http://www.sierraclub.org/energy/
Environmental Defense
Fund
http://www.edf.org/page.cfm?tagID=65
Other
Climate
Ark -
portal
http://www.climateark.org/
Also, are there plans to include
resources from Naysayers, such as http://www.globalwarming.org/
?
--Jennifer
-----Original
Message-----
From:
etkn-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:etkn-forum-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Winter, Kenneth A.
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2008
2:06 PM
To:
etkn-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [etkn-forum] FW: Climate
Change Project info
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
Director of Library and Information
Services VDOT Research Library 530 Edgemont Road, Charlottesville, VA
22903
Ph: (434) 293-1959 FAX: (434)
293-4196
Email:
Ken.Winter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Intranet: http://rclibrary
-----Original
Message-----
From: Amanda.Wilson@xxxxxxx
[mailto:Amanda.Wilson@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, September
29, 2008 11:29 AM
To: Winter, Kenneth A.;
john.cherney@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Marie.Manthe@xxxxxxxxx
Cc:
SzolomK@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Climate Change Project
info
Dear Ken, John, Marie,
I just sent
this information to Kathy in response to an email. I wanted to forward on to
you. This is some more detailed information about the climate change
clearinghouse that NTL will be maintaining and will go live in January
2008.
Amanda
________________________________
From: Wilson, Amanda
<RITA>
Sent: Mon 29-Sep-08
11:26
To: Szolomayer, Kathy
Subject: RE: ETKN Response to
Climate Change Project
Dear Kathy,
The type of
information we're looking for for each resource (if available and applicable) is
as follows:
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.
Amanda
Scope of
Clearinghouse for USDOT:
Journals &
publications
Include all peer reviewed
journals
*
Transport Policy
*
Transportation Research under Elsevier (A-F)
*
TRB
*
TCRP
*
NCHRP
*
TR News
*
TRIS database
*
Science
*
University Transportation Centers
*
Journal of American Planning Association
*
Climate Change
*
ENO
*
http://www.eoearth.org/article/Climate_Change_%28collection%29
<http://ethreemail.com/e3ds/mail_link.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.eoearth.org
%2Farticle%2FClimate_Change_%2528collection%2529&i=0&d=3717CED3-BF09-4BD
6-9356-D423E738E597&e=msurface@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Government
*
DOT publications
*
EPA
*
UN
*
IPCC
*
ICAO
*
IMO
*
DOE
*
USDA
*
NSF
*
NOAA
*
CCSP
*
CCTP
*
European Commission
*
Canada
*
NRCAN
*
Environment Canada
*
Transport Canada
*
Foreign Governments subject to review
*
Foreign transport providers subject to review
*
JITI
*
OECD
*
PIARC
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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