Optimizing Archived Electronic Transportation Engineering Data

Document archiving has always been an important aspect of project management in Departments of Transportation (DOTs). While paper documents made up the majority of documents stored in the past, digital storage is fast becoming the norm. The transformation from paper-based documents to electronic documents is causing some difficulty within DOTs. This article addresses the transformation process by conceptualizing the process to make the conversion as effective as possible, regardless of the current status of a DOTs conversion. With a complete understanding of the three critical components of conversion from paper to digital, those being: organization, conversion, and access, DOTs nationwide can feel confident with outsourcing the conversion of historic documents. While this paper-to-digital process was developed for use in a DOT environment, this strategy can be generalized to any firm looking to adopt or optimize an electronic document repository.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Al-Faqih, Laith
  • Sanchez, Carlos
  • Graettinger, Andrew J
  • Hale, David
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 87th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2008-1-13 to 2008-1-17
• Date: 2008

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: DVD
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 18p
• Monograph Title: TRB 87th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers DVD

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Data banks; Database management systems; Documents; Electronic media; Information management; Information storage and retrieval systems; Information, data, and knowledge; Project management; State departments of transportation; Technical reports
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Data and Information Technology; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01091043
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 08-1904
• Files: BTRIS, TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Mar 31 2008 8:04AM