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THESAURUS IMPLEMENTATION

THESAURUS IMPLEMENTATION. at the NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION LIBRARY CIL 2007 Washington, DC Joyce W. Koeneman Digital Librarian, NTL Research and Innovative Technology Administration USDOT Joyce.koeneman@dot.gov. U.S. Department of Transportation

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THESAURUS IMPLEMENTATION

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  1. THESAURUS IMPLEMENTATION at the NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION LIBRARY CIL 2007 Washington, DC Joyce W. Koeneman Digital Librarian, NTL Research and Innovative Technology Administration USDOT Joyce.koeneman@dot.gov

  2. U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration The National Transportation Library http://ntl.bts.gov NTL Digital Collection & Portal Full text and web sites! TLCat Access to U.S. and Canadian transportation libraries! It’s all at NTL. -Efficient, integrated transportation searches -Full text and the critical metadata you need -On-call reference librarian support TRIS Online TRB Bibliographic Index The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) The ultimate transportation keyword and taxonomy tool Need help? Call or email our reference librarians: (800) 853-1351 Librarian@bts.gov TRISOnline@bts.gov

  3. The Transportation Research Thesaurus • Created by National Cooperative Highway Research Project 20-32 • Reported out in 2001 in NCHRP Report 450. • Transportation Research Thesaurus and User’s Guide. • Content Maintained by the Transportation Research Board. • Available from http://trt.trb.org and http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/trt.do • Widely used.

  4. NTL and TRT • NTL uses TRT terms in a Dublin Core Metadata Repository for NTL Catalog of digital archive and portal. • http://ntl.bts.gov/about_ntl.html for metadata guidelines • http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/trt.do for NTL TRT • http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/index.do to browse or search TRIS Online and/or NTL using TRT

  5. Dublin Core Refinement

  6. Maintaining the Data • Oracle database. • The application was created by NTL to integrate with the catalog and search. • Data is maintained by a contractor to TRB and housed at TRB, NTL, et. al. • Data Harmony.

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