Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC) Thesaurus Content Characterization

John Dickert (DTIC)
2005-01-21

II. Core Content Characterization

Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.

Core Content Characterization
Attribute Value
Title* Defense Technical Information Center Thesaurus
Acronym DTIC Thesaurus
**One of the following (Web page(s), Identifier, or Contact Information) is mandatory:
Web page(s)** Not available via web.
Identifier** (DTIC Acquisition number) AD-A378 274, (DTIC Document number) DTIC-TR-2000/08
Contact Information**

John Dickert, Lexicographer, DTIC, jdickert@dtic.mil, Suite 0944, 8725 John J. Kingman Road, Fort Belvoir, VA 22060-6218

Inclusion Rationale*

This resource is of particular interest to our DoD partners. The terminology in the DTIC thesaurus is also quite broad and would cover many of the other areas indicated under subject below, including environment and healthcare.

Subject* defense or military science, physics, electronics, enginerring, materials
Kind of Metadata* Thesauri (no definitions).
Size statistics (estimated)*

17K controlled terms, 500 use references

Initial Submitter* Gail Hodge
Date of Initial Survey* 2005-12-17

III. Supplementary Content Characterization

Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.

Supplementary Content Characterization
Attribute Value
Date* 2004-10-??
Creator Defense Technical Information Center
Publisher* Defense Technical Information Center
Description*

Presented in three formats: alphabetic, hierarchical, keyword in context.

Language(s)* English
Graph-theoretic Classification* tree
Format / Schemas(s)* Text file, numbers and indentation indicate level in tree.
Media / Download* Not generally available for download. Provided directly by lexicographer.
Constraint Specifications None
Protocol(s) None
Licensing Issues* None
Export restrictions None
Subsets Arrangements for subsets could be made with the lexicographer but not automatically available.
Versions, Updates

Thesaurus is updated quarterly. Thesaurus is available to DTIC Users.

Documentation None (?)
Character Set Encoding* ASCII
Measurement units Not applicable.
Dataset / Standards Dependencies None
Related Datasets None
Software tools None
Audience(s) For use by indexers and searchers of the Private and Public STINet system at DTIC. Also used to create special bibliographies and to organize materials at the Information Analysis Centers (IACs).
Citation No
Surveyor* Editor: John H. Dickert (703)767-9014 jdickert@dtic.mil
Date of Survey* 2005-01-21

IV. Content Characterization by XMDR Staff

The following data elements are to be supplied by XMDR project staff/collaborators.

Attributes marked with an asterisk (*) are considered mandatory.

Content Characterization by XMDR Staff
Attribute Value
MDR Participant Expertise Gail Hodge
MDR Evaluator* Gail Hodge
Inclusion Priority* 1

Maintained by Frank Olken (LBNL) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. olken@lbl.gov Last updated: 2004-03-14, Monday, 8:39 PM PST

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