This thread warms my heart. It's great to see the code4lib community working in concert.
That is all. </threadjack> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 3:58 PM, Rees, John (NIH/NLM) [E] < re...@mail.nlm.nih.gov> wrote: > I'm no expert, but +1 for looking at the full UMLS toolkit. There's also a > semantic UMLS service. I'm sure that Olivier Bodenreider and the UMLS staff > would be helpful if you made direct inquiries about your use case. > > > John P. Rees > Archivist and Digital Resources Manager > History of Medicine Division > National Library of Medicine > 301-496-8953 > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Karen Hanson [mailto:karen.han...@ithaka.org] > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 3:38 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata > > MeSH is one of >100 health/biomedical vocabularies listed in UMLS, so I > suspect there may be other vocabularies in there that are a better fit for > public health: > > https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/knowledge_sources/metathesaurus/source_faq.html > https://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/sourcereleasedocs/ > > You may need to sign up for a free license in order to browse all > vocabularies: > https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/umls.html > > Good luck! > > Karen Hanson > Research Developer > Portico > > -----Original Message----- > From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of > Jacob Ratliff > Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 2:43 PM > To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU > Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata > > MeSH is a little helpful, but it is slightly different than the realm of > public health, which spends a lot of time on the systems surrounding > health, as well as the health areas themselves. (e.g. Pharmacy supply chain > management). That's the direction I'm heading though! > > Jacob > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Carol Bean <beanwo...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > MeSH? > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Jacob Ratliff <jaratlif...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > I currently work in an International public health non-profit, and > > > we > > are setting up enterprise wide document management for dealing with > > Knowledge Management and Information Management issues. Lots of moving > > pieces, but I wanted to get some input on metadata specific to the > > medical/health world. I am looking for some metadata guidance > > specifically related to the medical/health world. Is anyone using any > > standard controlled vocabularies? Should I be looking into Linked > > Data? I'm starting off the research phase for all of the metadata, so > > links to resources and case studies is greatly helpful! > > > > > > Bonus points to anything that is international in scope, as over 75% > > > of > > the employees at my company are non-US based (most of them in Africa). > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Jacob Ratliff > > > Information Architect / UX Specialsit Management Sciences for Health > > > jaratlif...@gmail.com > > > -- Tod Robbins Digital Asset Manager, MLIS todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins>