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53 The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) is a tool developed and maintained by the Transportation Research Board (TRB)
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54 The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements In 2008, NCHRP Project 20-79 was launched. This project focused on the addition of AASHTO definitions to the TRT and was completed in 2009.
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TRT Strategic plan 55 TRB's vision statement tells us that "TRB is where the nation's leaders and the transportation community turn for research, innovation, collaboration, and advice on emerging and critical transportation issues" (www.trb.org/AboutTRB/StrategicPlan1.aspx)
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56 The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements committees, annual meeting, and specialty conferences (Core Service 1)
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TRT Strategic plan 57 ment in TRB can facilitate the diversification of the organization and the breadth and depth of its dialog. The project team understands that there is interest in working with the TRT in both the private sector (i.e., transportation industry, transportation manufacturing, insurance, etc.)
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58 The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements though, the interpretation and implementation of that warrant has varied and is not consistent with the second mission statement. In addition, while the field of information management and discovery has made significant advances, the TRT has remained largely an operational tool for indexers and catalogers.
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TRT Strategic plan 59 application architecture. Based on established practices in the peer-reviewed literature and the research team's experience, 134 criteria were identified across the dimension.
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60 The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements • Gaps in coverage when we compared the TRT terms to other transportation thesauri and controlled vocabularies. While the overall "no match" rate was high, there is opportunity in the potential links between terms from other thesauri and terms in the TRT.
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TRT Strategic plan 61 • Varied rates of use of terms across facets. Terms with greater specificity appear to more often align with search terms than the more general terms.
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62 The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements that the overall results of this section suggest a shift to a proactive literary warrant strategy to support the TRT. • Confusion among the library and information science community supporting the TRT as to whether it is a thesaurus or a classification scheme.
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TRT Strategic plan 63 be offered by TRB, leveraging the Thesaurus as a core component of automated indexing, categorization, and abstracting applications. Finally, Strategy 4 describes a situation where the Thesaurus is a catalyst for community-based product and service development.
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64 The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements inclusion/exclusion; (2) the use of ISO-standard thesaurus relationships; (3)
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TRT Strategic plan 65 preference by the TRT team is for the interactive query option. The current functionality of the TRT within TRID will be decommissioned and archived.
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66 The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements 9. Define and integrate new category structure and begin filling in vocabularies for new facets, including expansion of modal-specific and cross-modal vocabularies.
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TRT Strategic plan 67 enabling smart search capabilities. It sets the stage for multilingual search.
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68 The Transportation Research Thesaurus: Capabilities and enhancements to other information providers, and to industry clients. Without Strategy 2, though, the TRT's content may not be sufficient to provide quality services.
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TRT Strategic plan 69 10. Assess KPIs for manual and automated indexing, updating previous KPIs as needed.
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