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From page 18... ... 18 This chapter describes and assesses the current state of TRT content. In a well-formed thesaurus, the expectation is to find terms that align with good practices and are, at a minimum, well suited to indexing and searching. Read the entire page →
From page 19... ... assessment of the Current trt 19 The assessment also found a high incidence of qualified terms. Parenthetical qualifiers are used to provide context and distinction for terms with a meaning that may be ambiguous to users. Read the entire page →
From page 20... ... 20 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements links may include, but are not limited to: (1) sibling terms that are loosely associated and sometimes interchangeable; (2) Read the entire page →
From page 21... ... assessment of the Current trt 21 Related Term (Hierarchical) relationships are not formally constructed between terms in the TRT, but are automatically generated and displayed for individual terms. Read the entire page →
From page 22... ... 22 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements what has occurred throughout a term's lifecycle. These functions are not supported in the current TRT. Read the entire page →
From page 23... ... assessment of the Current trt 23 its design as part of TRID. Where these constraints could be mitigated there is an opportunity to enhance the TRT. Read the entire page →
From page 24... ... 24 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements indexers most often reported searching for transportation terms as a way of validating the terms they had identified for a particular document or publication. Explicit use of the hierarchical browsing structure was noted by a few catalogers, particularly when a pre-identified term that they were searching for was not found in the TRT search results. Read the entire page →
From page 25... ... assessment of the Current trt 25 and large, all other examples described in the stakeholder interviews or data collection efforts fell under the customized use category. Since the TRT's main purpose is as an embedded tool for both TRID indexing and search, the team performed extensive analysis of the TRT terms for both searching and indexing. Read the entire page →
From page 26... ... 26 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements Findings Improving the TRT in aspects related to access and use is difficult because these criteria are so heavily dependent on, and therefore constrained by, the TRT application. While some enhancements to the TRT interface to improve explicit use are possible, they may not be cost-effective given the lack of usage. Read the entire page →
From page 27... ... assessment of the Current trt 27 TRT. The research team could not find evidence of annual reviews or audits of facets with SMEs. Read the entire page →
From page 28... ... 28 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements TRT Alignment with Scope and Coverage of Transportation Domain For this assessment, the research team identified 20 resources that represent the transportation domain. They ranged from TRB Annual Meeting program areas to handbooks and peer-reviewed journals. Read the entire page →
From page 29... ... assessment of the Current trt 29 Figure 3-4. Air transport terms scatter. Read the entire page →
From page 30... ... Figure 3-5. Rail transport terms scatter. Read the entire page →
From page 31... ... assessment of the Current trt 31 from the TRT were selected and searched against The World Bank Thesaurus (2010 edition) Read the entire page →
From page 32... ... 32 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements grammatically non-standard terms are not productive in searching other sources. For the TRT to have value to the full transportation community, it should be applicable to other environments and used in contexts beyond TRB. Read the entire page →
From page 33... ... assessment of the Current trt 33 of transportation-focused terms from search logs, commercial sources, and other transportation vocabularies. The overall results of the assessment of scope and coverage suggest a shift to a proactive literary warrant strategy to support the TRT. Read the entire page →
From page 34... ... 34 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements supported. Dimension A and Dimension B (Access and Use) Read the entire page →

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... 18 This chapter describes and assesses the current state of TRT content. In a well-formed thesaurus, the expectation is to find terms that align with good practices and are, at a minimum, well suited to indexing and searching.