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Thesauri
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) is pleased to announce that we have signed a $32.4 million, five-year sole source contract with the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to license English and Spanish language editions of SNOMED Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT).
Starting in January 2004, free-of-charge access to SNOMED CT core content and all version updates will be available through the NLM?s Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) Metathesaurus, a knowledge source containing biomedical concepts and terms from many controlled vocabularies and classifications.
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Multilingual Dictionary Of Cataloguing Terms And Concepts
News from IFLA. The first version of the Multilingual Dictionary of Cataloguing Terms and Concepts (MulDiCat) has been released. It is planned to make a later version available as SKOS. "The Multilingual dictionary of cataloguing terms and concepts contains...
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Rare Book Terms
The Bibliographic Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ALA/ACRL) is pleased to announce the availability of electronic versions of their controlled vocabularies for use in rare books and special collections cataloging.The new...
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Guidelines For The Construction, Format, And Management Of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies
NISO Z39.19-200x Guidelines for the Construction, Format, and Management of Monolingual Controlled VocabulariesAbstract: This standard presents guidelines and conventions for the contents, display, construction, testing, maintenance, and management of...
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Cc:da
The Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access is discussing the use of conventional terms as SMD's in formats other than electronic resources. This would be a major change, I think for the better. However, they need to hear from you. Let them...
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Controlled Vocabularies
Here are a few more controlled vocabularies.The Grants Keyword Thesaurus A classification system for research opportunities emanating from the federal government and provides a structured method by which agency personnel, faculty members, and research...
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