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Transportation Librarians Roundtable
Transportation Research Thesaurus: Taxonomy Development and Use Cases
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TOPIC: Transportation Research Thesaurus: Taxonomy Development and Use Cases
- 14 February 2008
- 2:00 PM EST
- Presented by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO
- Access Innovations, Inc. / Data Harmony
- 505.998.0800 / www.accessinn.com / www.dataharmony.com
- j_ven_eman@accessinn.com
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Access Innovations, Inc.
- 30 years in business!
- Founded in 1978 by Marjorie M.K. Hlava
- Woman-owned, small business
- GSA MAS contractor –GS-35F-0820N
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Access Innovations, Inc.
- Professional services and software for information and content optimization
- Moving you from search to found
- We make search perform for you
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Access Innovations, Inc.
Sample Client List
- American Chemical Society
- ASIS&T
- The British Library
- Chemical Abstracts Service
- Consumers Union
- Dialog Information Services
- Discovery Communications
- EBSCO
- EconLit
- Elsevier Science Publishers
- Encyclopaedia Brittanica
- Ei – Engineering Information
- Government Account Office (GAO)
- H. W. Wilson
- IEEE
- Kimberly-Clark
- Microsoft
- National Agricultural Library
- National Geographic Society
- National Library Board of Singapore
- National Transportation Library
- National Security Administration (NSA)
- Naval Postgraduate School
- New Jersey Hospital Association
- NIH – National Institutes of Environmental Health
- OCLC
- Reader’s Digest
- Santa Fe Institute
- Society of Automotive Engineers
- State of Illinois
- State of Minnesota
- Transportation Research Board – IS
- Weather Channel
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Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT)
- Appropriate uses
- Moving TRT to an ontology
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Appropriate uses
- Preparation –indexing & meta-data
- Organization –database design
- Presentation –Web, intranet
- Guided navigation
- Search by browsing
- Retrieval –search
- Query resolution & disambiguation
- Query expansion
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Moving TRT to an ontology
- Ontology
- Standards
- Semantic Web
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Taxonomy, Thesaurus, & Ontology
- Taxonomies and thesauri are not ontologies
- They are entities
- Ontology –science of describing kinds of
entities
- “an explicit and formal specification of a conceptualization”
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Ontology
- From philosophy –the science of describing
- Kinds of entities in the world
- How they are related
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Defining and refining
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Defining and refining
- Define BT and NT
- Broader term/Narrower term
- OWL -http://www.w3.org/TR/2004/Rec-owl-guide-20040210/
- SKOS -http://www.w3.org/TR/swbp-skos-core-guide
- Refine Body/head relationship
- Whole/part
- ANSI/NISO Z39.19-2005 –http://www.niso.org
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ANSI/NISO Z39.19-200x
Table 1: Selected semantic relationships among terms
| Relationship Type |
Example |
| Equivalency | |
| Synonym | UN / United Nations |
| Lexical variants | pediatrics / paediatrics |
| Near synonymy | sea water / salt water
smoothness / roughness |
| Hierarchy | |
| Generic or IsA | birds / parrots |
| Instance or IsA | sea / Mediterranean Sea |
| Whole/Part | brain / brain stem |
| Associative | |
| Cause / Effect | accident / injury |
| Process / Agent | velocity measurement / speedometer |
| Process / Counter-agent | fire / flame retardant |
| Action / Product | writing / publication |
| Action / Property | communication / communications skills |
| Action / Target | teaching / student |
| Concept or Object / Property | steel alloy /corrosion resistance |
| Concept or Object / Origins | water / well |
| Concept or Object / Measurement Unit or Mechanism | chronometer / minute |
| Raw material / Product | grapes / wine |
| Discipline or Field / Object or Practitioner | neonatology / infant |
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Thank you!
- TOPIC: Transportation Research Thesaurus: Taxonomy Development and Use Cases
- 14 February 2008
- 2:00 PM EST
- Presented by Jay Ven Eman, Ph.D., CEO
- Access Innovations, Inc. / Data Harmony
- 505.998.0800 / www.accessinn.com / www.dataharmony.com
- j_ven_eman@accessinn.com
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