Dear CTPP-News recipients: This is the last friendly reminder to submit your Census 2000 Poster Session Abstracts for the 2002 TRB Annual Meeting, by Wednesday, August 1st, to Ed Christopher of BTS. We really want to encourage the MPO and State DOT staffs, as well as consultants and academics, to offer posters on Census 2000 data. (The PL 94-171 data has been out since this past March, and it looks like all of the SF-1 data will be released before the end of August!) Following the census subcommittee CALL FOR POSTERS is our urban metadata subcommittee's CALL FOR PAPERs. Again, the August 1st deadline is firm! Thanks! Chuck Purvis, Chair, TRB urban data committee. **CENSUS CALL FOR POSTERS** Call for Poster Session Papers/Presentations The Subcommittee on Census Data for Transportation Planning (A1D08-1) is interested in developing a poster session for the 81st TRB Annual Meetings in January 2002. The subject of the poster session will center on the innovative and creative ways, in which census related data is being presented, displayed or delivered. Under the TRB guidelines, a poster session is a series of presentations on vertical display boards with direct interaction between the presenter and attendees. The entire presentation is placed on a display board and should be considered the equivalent to the conventional paper or presentation sessions. Typically, a TRB Poster Session is made up of reviewed papers. However, due to the evolving nature of the subject and the fact that the US Census related data is just now being released--time is short--presentations will be considered. Individuals interested in sharing some of the innovative and creative ways in which they are displaying and making Census data available within their transportation community are encouraged to "show their work". Those seeking publication as part of the TRB Research Record series need to have their paper submitted, according to TRB guidelines no later than August 1, 2001. For more information on the paper submittal process or the Annual meeting refer to; http://www4.trb.org/trb/annual.nsf For those wishing to present their materials without seeking full publication may submit an abstract by August 1, 2001 to Ed Christopher, Chair of the Subcommittee on Census Data for Transportation Planning at the address and phone number below. More detailed information and general instructions for a TRB Poster Session can be found at http://www.nas.edu/trb/archives/publications/am/poster.pdf Should you have any questions please contact either Ed Christopher, Subcommittee Chair, or Chuck Purvis Chair of the Urban Data and Information Systems Committee (A1D08). Ed Christopher Transportation Industry Analyst Bureau of Trans. Statistics K-30 400 Seventh Street, SW Washington D.C. 20590 202-366-0412 edc(a)bts.gov Chuck Purvis, AICP Senior Transportation Planner Metropolitan Trans. Commission 101 Eighth Street Oakland, CA 94607 510- 464-7731 cpurvis(a)mtc.ca.gov **METADATA CALL FOR PAPERS*** Invitation to submit papers for 2002 TRB MetaData applications in transportation Data has become considerable more plentiful, but the means of accessing it have become more difficult to manage. Metadata provides a practical technical means of communicating between very different needs of data collectors and owners and the users, however it is not without cost. One of the costs is the need to work out agreed vocabularies for the increasingly formalised metadata frameworks that are now becoming established. Most discussion in this area to date has concentrated upon the technical means for creating and underpinning metadata, and a plethora of Standards have been proposed for this. The objective of this invitation is to look at what the benefits might be to the end users, and what the barriers are to them being realised. To this end strongly technical papers focussing on the detailed debates on metadata implementation are being addressed in a separate Call for data Interoperability papers. The metadata subcommitee wishes to invite those making operational use of metadata, or who are working on delivering benefits to different transportation related groups to marshal these views and experiences to share help provide a cumulative view of what metadata and the data interoperability advances can deliver on the ground. Please contact Marcus Wigan (mwigan(a)vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au) subcommittee chair of AID08-2 for futher details or to discuss paper submissions or presentations. *********************************************** Charles L. Purvis, AICP Senior Transportation Planner/Analyst Metropolitan Transportation Commission 101 Eighth Street Oakland, CA 94607-4700 (510) 464-7731 (office) (510) 464-7848 (fax) www: http://www.mtc.ca.gov/ Census WWW: http://census.mtc.ca.gov/ ***********************************************