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Transportation at State Agency Databases Project
This week’s State Agency Databases Project subject highlight is Transportation, featuring 36 states that project volunteers know to have publicly searchable databases in this subject area. Three examples from this compilation are:
Seat Belt Enforcement Reporting Site – Statistics on current seatbelt use, violations, and fatalities. Customizable by type, date, and location.
Ohio Crash Report – Crash reports on this site are not official documents. They were submitted to the Ohio Department of Public Safety for statistical purposes only. These reports are to be used for statistical use only and are not sufficient to be used in any court proceeding.
Virginia Transportation Marketing Research Database – Contains marketing research studies conducted by various transportation agencies on topics such as HOV lanes, carpooling, telework, and more. Searchable by subject, region, keyword, and year; a complete listing of all studies is also available.
For more, see http://godort.libguides.com/transportationdbs. If you know of state agency produced databases in the this area, either comment here or use the “Email me” link on the guide to report a database, which will be forwarded to the appropriate project volunteer.
Government Finances & Contracts at State Agency Databases Project
This week’s State Agency Databases Project subject highlight is Government Finances & Contracts, featuring 46 states that project volunteers know to have publicly searchable databases in this subject area. Three examples from this compilation are:
Financial Documents Delivery System – Provides “access to every municipal budget and year-end financial statement submitted” to the Division of Community & Regional Affairs.
Audit Search – Review the financial information of units of state and local government such as schools, cities, counties, etc., to see how Ohioans’ tax dollars are being spent.
Transparency database – This site allows you to search for expenses, revenues, and employee compensation for most levels of Utah government including school districts.
For more, see http://godort.libguides.com/govfinancedbs. If you know of state agency produced databases in this area, either comment here or use the “Email me” link on the guide to report a database, which will be forwarded to the appropriate project volunteer.
State Agency Databases Project Activity Report 1/15/2015
Welcome to the first State Agency Databases Project report of 2015!
ORPHAN – Nebraska
At the start of each new year we click on the “history” tab of each state page and check when it was last updated. If it hasn’t been updated during the previous calendar year, we let that volunteer go and put out the page for adoption.
Historically, I’ve had to fill six or seven pages each year. This year was different — we only had two “orphan pages” and one got adopted before I could get this report out. So I am happy to report that the sole orphan page of 2015 is Nebraska.
If you are interested in being the documents specialist for the Nebraska page, please read through our Volunteer Guide. If you feel you can carry out the listed duties please contact me at danielcornwall AT gmail DOT com.
ACTIVITY
The first few weeks of 2015 saw significant activity at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases . The following pages saw a significant number of changes. (links are to revisions page, click on “page” tab to see regular page):
- District of Columbia – Susan Paterson
- Montana – Susanne Caro
- New Mexico – Susanne Caro
- Ohio – Kirstin Krumsee
- “Not Databases” – Resources that are either databases of state information NOT produced by state agencies, or resources from state agencies that are not databases.
One other change we made was to our Prisoner Locater page, our most popular subject collection for several years running. Although it was technically outside the scope of our project, we added the Federal Inmate Locator so that regular people using the page to track down a friend, loved one or other person of interest had easy access to both state and federal locator services.
You can always view ALL changes made in the past 14 days by visiting http://tinyurl.com/statedbs14d.
As a reminder, all of the links and text in the State Agency Databases Project is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. We strongly encourage the use of our links and annotations in projects of your own.
State Agency Databases Project: 2014 Statistics
At the beginning of each year, I (Daniel) compile yearly statistics for the pages of the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases. Here are a few highlights from 2014.
State Pages
We had five states top 10,000 visits a year, led by Missouri with 22,069 visits.
1. Missouri (Annie Moots) 22069
2. Florida (Wilhelmina Randtke) 17558
3. California (Joel Rane) 14012
4. Ohio (Kirstin Krumsee) 12364
5. Alaska (Daniel Cornwall) 10583
Virginia had the fewest visits at 1638, but even this state page was visited an average of 4.5 times a day in 2014.
Subject Pages
Here are all eight of our subject collection pages, ranked by number of visits received in 2014:
1. Prisoner Locater Tools 10373
2. Health Practitioner Databases A-M 7802
3. Historical Media databases 2441
4. Biographical databases 2251
5. Historical Newspaper and Magazine Indexes 2124
6. Health Practitioner Databases N-Z 1893
7. Official records databases 1711
8. Museum Collection databases 986
If you’d like to establish a new subject collection on the State Agency Databases project or would like to build a subject collection on your own site using project links, let me know.
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If you are interested in full project statistics from 2011 forward visit:
If you have questions or comments about these statistics, please leave a comment here or e-mail me.
State Agency Databases Activity Report 9/21/2014
Hi All,
It’s been a long time since I’ve provided an update on activity at the State Agency Databases Project at http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases.
I thought I’d experiment with a new format for this report. Feel free to give me feedback on this or the previous format.
You can always check on changes in the past seven days by visiting http://tinyurl.com/statedbs. This past week saw significant changes to the following pages (links are to revisions page, click on “page” tab to see regular page):
- Arizona (Lindsay O’Neill)
- Kansas (Pam Crawford)
- New Hampshire (Linda Johnson)
- Ohio (Kirstin Krumsee)
- South Carolina (Ed Sperr)
- Healthcare practitioners databases (Lynn McClelland)
- Historical Media Databases
- Official Records Databases
As a reminder, all of the links and text in the State Agency Databases Project is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 license. We strongly encourage the use of our links and annotations in projects of your own.
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