Library Cataloging
Constructing a concise medical taxonomy by Bruce McGreg appears in the latest Journal of the Medical Library Association.
- The Living Taxonomy Project (ltp)
An interesting project brought to my attention by Steven Cohen.The Living Taxonomy Project is a collaborative effort aimed at creating a global set of open source, standards-based taxonomies for education. The purpose of these taxonomies will be to provide...
- Classification
Why Dewey's Decimal System is prejudiced appears in the latest JOHO, Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. This is a personal newsletter from David Weinberger. (Thanks to the commenter for clearing up the person responsible.) He is the author of...
- Xml
Publishing standards in the medical community.The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a center of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), created the Journal Publishing Document Type Definition (DTD) with the intent of providing a common...
- Taxonomy
Another controlled vocabulary, the EDUCAUSE Taxonomy."The EDUCAUSE Taxonomy, a hierarchical subject listing of over 450 terms, helps you more easily explore topics and find specific documents in the association?s extensive collection of online information...
- Mesh
I mentioned how much I liked the idea of free download of the GSAFD MARC records. It turns out the Medical Subject Headings have been available for quite some time for free download. They are available in MARC, XML and ASCII. OCLC still does not provide...
Library Cataloging
Taxonomies
Constructing a concise medical taxonomy by Bruce McGreg appears in the latest Journal of the Medical Library Association.
How do you construct a taxonomy of medicine concise enough to mount on a single Web page and comprehensive enough to describe the contents of a set of leading journals whose coverage ranges from public health to molecular biology? This seemingly impossible task was recently presented to the publishing division of the American Medical Association (AMA) to improve subject access to its journals' Websites.
- The Living Taxonomy Project (ltp)
An interesting project brought to my attention by Steven Cohen.The Living Taxonomy Project is a collaborative effort aimed at creating a global set of open source, standards-based taxonomies for education. The purpose of these taxonomies will be to provide...
- Classification
Why Dewey's Decimal System is prejudiced appears in the latest JOHO, Journal of the Hyperlinked Organization. This is a personal newsletter from David Weinberger. (Thanks to the commenter for clearing up the person responsible.) He is the author of...
- Xml
Publishing standards in the medical community.The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), a center of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), created the Journal Publishing Document Type Definition (DTD) with the intent of providing a common...
- Taxonomy
Another controlled vocabulary, the EDUCAUSE Taxonomy."The EDUCAUSE Taxonomy, a hierarchical subject listing of over 450 terms, helps you more easily explore topics and find specific documents in the association?s extensive collection of online information...
- Mesh
I mentioned how much I liked the idea of free download of the GSAFD MARC records. It turns out the Medical Subject Headings have been available for quite some time for free download. They are available in MARC, XML and ASCII. OCLC still does not provide...