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at the NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION LIBRARY
CIL 2007Washington, DC
Joyce W. KoenemanDigital Librarian, NTL
Research and Innovative Technology AdministrationUSDOT
THESAURUS IMPLEMENTATION
(800) 853-1351 [email protected] [email protected]
Need help? Call or email our reference librarians:
U.S. Department of TransportationResearch and Innovative Technology Administration
TRISOnline
TRB Bibliographic Index
TheTransportation
ResearchThesaurus (TRT)
The ultimate transportationkeyword and taxonomy tool
NTL DigitalCollection& Portal
Full text and web sites!
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transportationlibraries!It’s all
at NTL.
http://ntl.bts.govThe 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 20-32
• Reported out in 2001 in NCHRP Report 450.– Transportation Research Thesaurus and User’s
Guide.
• Content Maintained by the Transportation Research Board.
• Available from http://trt.trb.org and http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/trt.do
• Widely used.
NTL and TRT
• NTL uses TRT terms in a Dublin Core Metadata Repository for NTL Catalog of digital archive and portal.– http://ntl.bts.gov/about_ntl.html for metadata
guidelines– http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/trt.do for NTL TRT– http://ntlsearch.bts.gov/tris/index.do to browse
or search TRIS Online and/or NTL using TRT
Dublin Core Refinement
NTL Name DC Term
XML Element Name Notes
TRT Keywords subject <dc:subject xsi:type=”dcterms:TRT”> Encoding scheme - TRT
Subject Keywords
subject <dc:subject>