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... 5 Pilot projects were conducted at the Washington, Utah, and Iowa State DOTs. The WSDOT pilot demonstrated ways to improve search and navigation for engineering manual content.
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... 6 Implementing Information Findability Improvements in State Transportation Agencies • Create a video demo of several use case scenarios showing how the ontology adds value for search and discovery. A screenshot of the WSDOT Manual Modernization Pilot website is shown in Figure 2.
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... The Pilot Projects 7 automated approach to identifying selected content types. Six content types were included in the pilot: agreements, project concept reports, design exceptions, quitclaim deeds, warranty deeds, and highway easement deeds.
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... 8 Implementing Information Findability Improvements in State Transportation Agencies copies of files from ProjectWise and DocExpress documents into the ERMS, but this required considerable manual effort because of the lack of consistent metadata. Consistent metadata were needed to enable efficient entry in the ERMS.

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