at the NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION LIBRARY CIL 2007 Washington, DC Joyce W. Koeneman Digital Librarian, NTL Research and Innovative Technology Administration USDOT THESAURUS IMPLEMENTATION
(800) Need help? Call or our reference librarians: U.S. Department of Transportation Research and Innovative Technology Administration TRIS Online TRB Bibliographic Index The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) The ultimate transportation keyword and taxonomy tool NTL Digital Collection & Portal Full text and web sites!TLCat Access to U.S. and Canadian transportation libraries! It’s all at NTL. http : //ntl.bts.gov The National Transportation Library -Efficient, integrated transportation searches -Full text and the critical metadata you need -On-call reference librarian support
The Transportation Research Thesaurus Created by National Cooperative Highway Research Project Reported out in 2001 in NCHRP Report 450. –Transportation Research Thesaurus and User’s Guide. Content Maintained by the Transportation Research Board. Available from and Widely used.
NTL and TRT NTL uses TRT terms in a Dublin Core Metadata Repository for NTL Catalog of digital archive and portal. – for metadata guidelines – for NTL TRT – to browse or search TRIS Online and/or NTL using TRT
Dublin Core Refinement NTL NameDC Term XML Element NameNotes TRT Keywordssubject Encoding scheme - TRT Subject Keywords subject
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.