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... 5 The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) is a tool to improve the indexing and retrieval of transportation information.
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... 6 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements the strategic plan. The strategic plan will direct the TRT's future development to ensure that the thesaurus continues to serve well the needs of TRID users and the broader transportation community.
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... Background 7 directly relevant to thesaurus management and information management. This dimension is the heart of the framework -- without this component, there is no thesaurus.
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... 8 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements term and controls the hierarchical display. This is traditional thesaurus architecture.
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... Background 9 • Step 1: Formulate assessment criteria in consultation with the project panel and the transportation community, • Step 2: Assess the current state of the TRT against assessment criteria, and • Step 3: Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement and enhancement in the context of the TRT vision. Each step in this critical task had its own detailed methodology.
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... 10 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements including those developed by the broader transportation community. The use case scenarios are presented in more detail as future strategies in Chapter 4.
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... Background 11 An interview guide (see Appendix D) was developed and distributed prior to each interview.
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... 12 the transportation research thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements in-person interview guide for SMEs were transformed into an online data collection form (see Appendix D)
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... Background 13 retrieval, and governance of transportation data and information, as well as strategies and actions a DOT could follow to implement such practices. As part of this broader project, there was a small targeted review of TRT as a cataloging tool.

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