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The National Transportation Library's Thesaurus Maintenance and Community Vetting Process

The National Transportation Library's Thesaurus Maintenance and Community Vetting Process. Amanda J. Wilson and Keith Morrison National Transportation Library Taxonomy Tuesday 16 September 2008. Topics. Context, History, Development TRT and Data Harmony TRT Management Process

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The National Transportation Library's Thesaurus Maintenance and Community Vetting Process

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  1. The National Transportation Library's Thesaurus Maintenance and Community Vetting Process Amanda J. Wilson and Keith Morrison National Transportation Library Taxonomy Tuesday 16 September 2008

  2. Topics • Context, History, Development • TRT and Data Harmony • TRT Management Process • TRB Subcommittee • Nuts and Bolts

  3. The National Transportation Library http://ntl.bts.gov NTL Digital Collection & Portal Full text and web sites TLCat (Transportation Libraries Catalog) Access to U.S. and Canadian transportation libraries -Efficient searches -Full text and critical metadata -On-call Virtual Reference TRIS Online The bibliographic index to transportation literature 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

  4. The Harmonized NTLData Structure : Infrastructure : Functions

  5. 1991 1993 Transportation 2006 2007 1996 2003 2001 2008 2005 2004 Federal Environment 1998 Proposed TRB project Congress establishes NTL TRT integrated into TRIS at TRB Data Harmony on DOT servers TRT is NCHRP Report 450 NCHRP project 20-32 NTL selects Data Harmony NTL buys Data Harmony In the beginning… NTL releases Integrated Search System Fully leveraging Data Harmony… NTL becomes maintenance body NCHRP20-79 to add definitions Another NCHRP Project… Server Wars at DOT

  6. TRT and Data Harmony

  7. Transportation Research Thesaurus • Structure • 26 facets • 9400+ terms • Notations, scopes, lead-in terms • Development and Maintenance • CDB Enterprises (creation) • Sole contractor (the early years) • NTL + Technical Review Committee (adolescence)

  8. From the Present into the Future • Published at NTL and TRB • NTL Official Maintenance Body • Using Data Harmony • Multiple taxonomy support • Multilingual support • Back-end for publishing TRT to the web

  9. TRT Maintenance: Nuts and Bolts

  10. Thank You! Amanda J. Wilson Director, National Transportation Library Amanda.Wilson@dot.gov 202.366.2480 Keith Morrison National Transportation Library Keith.Morrison@dot.gov 202.366.0755

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