Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata

[Jacob Ratliff]

All good questions, and most of which we are still in the process of
determining. The types of documents are generally project related
documentation (reports, plans, technical information, etc.), but those have
not yet been standardized. We are also in the process of doing business
analysis and user testing to determine the types and amount of metadata we
need. I just know for sure that we will need "subject" or "topic"
descriptors for all of the content. This has currently been narrowed down
to "Technical Area" (i.e. the actual health issue), target populations
(e.g. Newborns), and Expertise Areas (e.g. Monitoring and evaluation), but
all of that is subject to change based on research and user testing.

As for the process to assign terms and the structure of the terms, all of
that is up in the air right now as we have no systems (business or
technological) to implement any of this. In an ideal world flush with
resources, I would be able to get a metadata/vocabulary management tool, as
well as a robust document/content management system that can work together,
as well as integrate with our other data and business intelligence systems
that are being created. There are currently a number of evaluative/business
analysis workstreams moving forward to try and answer some of these
questions. In reality, there is a very good chance a lot of this will need
to be managed through excel and good governance.

The systems and vocabularies will also have to useful worldwide, as 80% of
our employees are located outside of the US (we aren't even talking about
multiple languages right now; that's a problem that is not even worth
considering at this point).

The suggestions everyone has given so far are very helpful and are putting
me on the right track. My hope is to be able to use one of them, or at
least part(s) of them to get to where we need to go.

Hopefully in a few months I will have a good update (and more questions) on
where we are!

Thanks,

Jacob

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Kyle Banerjee 
wrote:

> Could you say a bit more about the documents you need to manage, the level
> of specificity you need, how they'll be used, and what process you envision
> to assign terms? If your documents are mostly clinical in nature, SNOMED
> strikes me a good choice, but if you want terminology that could take you
> to related articles in PubMed or your needs aren't mostly clinical, MeSH
> might work better.
>
> It's possible to crosswalk across vocabularies, but the different
> vocabularies are optimized to support different needs so you'll want to
> pick one that's appropriate for your use.
>
> kyle
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Jacob Ratliff 
> 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
> >
>

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Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata

[Sedgwick-Barker, Pamela J. (CDC/OPHSS/CSELS)]

Jacob,

This is pretty basic, since we're only using one subject term per article, but 
it may give you some ideas. Take a look in particular at the Topics pages, or 
individual issues to see the controlled vocabulary we're using.

http://www.cdc.gov/library/sciclips/index.html 

Pamela Sedgwick-Barker
Phone:  404 639-3806
Email:  psedgwickbar...@cdc.gov
Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Jacob 
Ratliff
Sent: Monday, March 14, 2016 2:22 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata

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

[CODE4LIB] Drupal 8 Library Extensions

[David Uspal]

Code4Lib,

   We're in the process of evaluating Drupal 8 as our main site CMS (we're on 
Concrete5 v6 so migrating to v7 is a large effort, which makes this a good time 
to evaluate alternatives).  As such, I'm trying to compile a list of the most 
used Drupal extensions designed for libraries that are compatible with Drupal 
8.  Does anyone know where such a list might be found and/or could help in 
compiling such a list?  Thanks!

David K. Uspal
Technology Development Specialist
Falvey Memorial Library
Phone: 610-519-8954
Email: david.us...@villanova.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata

[Kyle Banerjee]

Howdy Jacob,

One thing you'll want to consider in choosing a vocabulary is to find one
that's optimized for purposes/topics similar to yours.

For example, SNOMED is designed to provide standardized terminology for
storing/retrieving information from clinical care EHRs, ICD-10 is for
reporting out for statistical purposes, and MeSH was designed for indexing
articles, books, documents, etc in the life sciences. There are other
vocabularies designed for other uses.

These three schemes all have hierarchical and/or synthetic codes in the
background (with ICD-10, the codes are actually in the foreground with the
vocab in the background) that lend themselves towards relating concepts in
an internationalized database of resources in many languages -- SNOMED
specifically has an international version. There are good tools for these
schemes (you'll even find ones that assign terms based on textual
analysis), and it's easy to get the data so you can create your own tools
if needed.

If the idea is that that the values of Target Populations are kept separate
from Technical Area and Expertise Area? If so, you might consider using
more than one vocabulary or even to use your own hierarchy. For example,
you may find that no vocabulary expresses Target Population the way you
need and there probably few enough terms that it would be feasible to
maintain your own hierarchy for that area.

kyle

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 6:51 AM, Jacob Ratliff 
wrote:

> All good questions, and most of which we are still in the process of
> determining. The types of documents are generally project related
> documentation (reports, plans, technical information, etc.), but those have
> not yet been standardized. We are also in the process of doing business
> analysis and user testing to determine the types and amount of metadata we
> need. I just know for sure that we will need "subject" or "topic"
> descriptors for all of the content. This has currently been narrowed down
> to "Technical Area" (i.e. the actual health issue), target populations
> (e.g. Newborns), and Expertise Areas (e.g. Monitoring and evaluation), but
> all of that is subject to change based on research and user testing.
>
> As for the process to assign terms and the structure of the terms, all of
> that is up in the air right now as we have no systems (business or
> technological) to implement any of this. In an ideal world flush with
> resources, I would be able to get a metadata/vocabulary management tool, as
> well as a robust document/content management system that can work together,
> as well as integrate with our other data and business intelligence systems
> that are being created. There are currently a number of evaluative/business
> analysis workstreams moving forward to try and answer some of these
> questions. In reality, there is a very good chance a lot of this will need
> to be managed through excel and good governance.
>
> The systems and vocabularies will also have to useful worldwide, as 80% of
> our employees are located outside of the US (we aren't even talking about
> multiple languages right now; that's a problem that is not even worth
> considering at this point).
>
> The suggestions everyone has given so far are very helpful and are putting
> me on the right track. My hope is to be able to use one of them, or at
> least part(s) of them to get to where we need to go.
>
> Hopefully in a few months I will have a good update (and more questions) on
> where we are!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jacob
>
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 4:55 PM, Kyle Banerjee 
> wrote:
>
> > Could you say a bit more about the documents you need to manage, the
> level
> > of specificity you need, how they'll be used, and what process you
> envision
> > to assign terms? If your documents are mostly clinical in nature, SNOMED
> > strikes me a good choice, but if you want terminology that could take you
> > to related articles in PubMed or your needs aren't mostly clinical, MeSH
> > might work better.
> >
> > It's possible to crosswalk across vocabularies, but the different
> > vocabularies are optimized to support different needs so you'll want to
> > pick one that's appropriate for your use.
> >
> > kyle
> >
> > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:22 AM, Jacob Ratliff 
> > 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 t

Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal 8 Library Extensions

[Cary Gordon]

Hi David,

What do you mean by "Drupal extensions designed for libraries”? Drupal 8 is one 
month into release, and there are no library-specific modules that I know of. 
Many of the the Drupal 7 modules that are popular in the library world (and 
everywhere else) such as the awesome webform module, aren’t in general release, 
yet.

We build a lot of Drupal websites for libraries, and we do not expect to be 
creating any general library sites in Drupal 8 until later this year. Drupal 7 
will be supported until Drupal 9 is released, and with Drupal's new point 
release strategy, I estimate that Drupal 9 is at least four years out.

Drupal 7 has broad adoption in the library community, and it has a wide range 
of modules and tools for libraries. I recommend that you join the Drupal4Lib 
mailing list . There is also 
a Libraries Drupal group .

Thanks,

Cary

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 8:39 AM, David Uspal  wrote:
> 
> Code4Lib,
> 
>   We're in the process of evaluating Drupal 8 as our main site CMS (we're on 
> Concrete5 v6 so migrating to v7 is a large effort, which makes this a good 
> time to evaluate alternatives).  As such, I'm trying to compile a list of the 
> most used Drupal extensions designed for libraries that are compatible with 
> Drupal 8.  Does anyone know where such a list might be found and/or could 
> help in compiling such a list?  Thanks!
> 
> David K. Uspal
> Technology Development Specialist
> Falvey Memorial Library
> Phone: 610-519-8954
> Email: david.us...@villanova.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal 8 Library Extensions

[Heller, Margaret]

I agree with Cary--I did an evaluation a few weeks ago for the possibility of 
migrating our Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8, and determined that too many of the 
modules we rely on were not yet available for Drupal 8. Some of the 
functionality could no doubt be replicated with other methods, but the amount 
of work it would take for dubious benefit made me decide to give it another few 
months at least before reevaluating. That said, if you're going into it fresh 
you might be able to get by without Drupal 7 modules, but you're going to have 
limited choices currently for anything related to site administration/backend 
stuff like webforms, backups, and redirects--all can be done manually, but at a 
lot of extra overhead.

Margaret Heller
Digital Services Librarian
Loyola University Chicago
773-508-2686


-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary 
Gordon
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 12:28 PM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal 8 Library Extensions

Hi David,

What do you mean by "Drupal extensions designed for libraries”? Drupal 8 is one 
month into release, and there are no library-specific modules that I know of. 
Many of the the Drupal 7 modules that are popular in the library world (and 
everywhere else) such as the awesome webform module, aren’t in general release, 
yet.

We build a lot of Drupal websites for libraries, and we do not expect to be 
creating any general library sites in Drupal 8 until later this year. Drupal 7 
will be supported until Drupal 9 is released, and with Drupal's new point 
release strategy, I estimate that Drupal 9 is at least four years out.

Drupal 7 has broad adoption in the library community, and it has a wide range 
of modules and tools for libraries. I recommend that you join the Drupal4Lib 
mailing list . There is also 
a Libraries Drupal group .

Thanks,

Cary

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 8:39 AM, David Uspal  wrote:
> 
> Code4Lib,
> 
>   We're in the process of evaluating Drupal 8 as our main site CMS (we're on 
> Concrete5 v6 so migrating to v7 is a large effort, which makes this a good 
> time to evaluate alternatives).  As such, I'm trying to compile a list of the 
> most used Drupal extensions designed for libraries that are compatible with 
> Drupal 8.  Does anyone know where such a list might be found and/or could 
> help in compiling such a list?  Thanks!
> 
> David K. Uspal
> Technology Development Specialist
> Falvey Memorial Library
> Phone: 610-519-8954
> Email: david.us...@villanova.edu

[CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

[Burrell, Matthew]

Hello all,
I am looking for examples of lists of database subjects similar to one we are 
using, https://www.lib.fsu.edu/eresources/subjects , as a comparative model. We 
would like to limit the number of subjects and searching for examples. Thanks 
in advance! I appreciate it.
Matt

Matt Burrell
Web Developer
The Florida State University Libraries
Tallahassee, Florida
(850) 814-9634
Or Schedule an Appointment

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

[Jenn C]

Here's ours, though I'm not sure it's fewer subjects, the hierarchy might
help a bit?

https://newcatalog.library.cornell.edu/databases/

jenn

On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Burrell, Matthew  wrote:

> Hello all,
> I am looking for examples of lists of database subjects similar to one we
> are using, https://www.lib.fsu.edu/eresources/subjects , as a comparative
> model. We would like to limit the number of subjects and searching for
> examples. Thanks in advance! I appreciate it.
> Matt
>
> Matt Burrell
> Web Developer
> The Florida State University Libraries
> Tallahassee, Florida
> (850) 814-9634
> Or Schedule an Appointment
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

[Lisa Gayhart]

Hi Matthew and list,

Here is the University of Toronto Libraries¹ version of subjects listing:

https://resource.library.utoronto.ca/a-z/subjects.html


Thanks,

Lisa Gayhart
User Experience Librarian

On 2016-03-15, 2:26 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Burrell, Matthew"
 wrote:

>Hello all,
>I am looking for examples of lists of database subjects similar to one we
>are using, https://www.lib.fsu.edu/eresources/subjects , as a comparative
>model. We would like to limit the number of subjects and searching for
>examples. Thanks in advance! I appreciate it.
>Matt
>
>Matt Burrell
>Web Developer
>The Florida State University Libraries
>Tallahassee, Florida
>(850) 814-9634
>Or Schedule an Appointment

Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal 8 Library Extensions

[Carol Bean]

What is your timeline?  I dealt with a similar situation soon after Drupal 7 
was released.  But I needed to get something deployed rather quickly and I 
couldn't see anyone who had actually deployed 7 to a production site.  So we 
used Drupal 6, and migrated about a year later.  If you have the luxury of 
time, you might want to start with 8 and help some of the desired modules get 
to compatibility with 8?  If you want/need the migrated site up before the end 
of the year, however, I'd recommend just going with 7.  There will be less 
problems and you will have a several years to move it to 8.

Carol

> On Mar 15, 2016, at 12:52 PM, Heller, Margaret  wrote:
> 
> I agree with Cary--I did an evaluation a few weeks ago for the possibility of 
> migrating our Drupal 7 site to Drupal 8, and determined that too many of the 
> modules we rely on were not yet available for Drupal 8. Some of the 
> functionality could no doubt be replicated with other methods, but the amount 
> of work it would take for dubious benefit made me decide to give it another 
> few months at least before reevaluating. That said, if you're going into it 
> fresh you might be able to get by without Drupal 7 modules, but you're going 
> to have limited choices currently for anything related to site 
> administration/backend stuff like webforms, backups, and redirects--all can 
> be done manually, but at a lot of extra overhead.
> 
> Margaret Heller
> Digital Services Librarian
> Loyola University Chicago
> 773-508-2686
> 
> 
> -Original Message-
> From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Cary 
> Gordon
> Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 12:28 PM
> To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
> Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] Drupal 8 Library Extensions
> 
> Hi David,
> 
> What do you mean by "Drupal extensions designed for libraries”? Drupal 8 is 
> one month into release, and there are no library-specific modules that I know 
> of. Many of the the Drupal 7 modules that are popular in the library world 
> (and everywhere else) such as the awesome webform module, aren’t in general 
> release, yet.
> 
> We build a lot of Drupal websites for libraries, and we do not expect to be 
> creating any general library sites in Drupal 8 until later this year. Drupal 
> 7 will be supported until Drupal 9 is released, and with Drupal's new point 
> release strategy, I estimate that Drupal 9 is at least four years out.
> 
> Drupal 7 has broad adoption in the library community, and it has a wide range 
> of modules and tools for libraries. I recommend that you join the Drupal4Lib 
> mailing list . There is 
> also a Libraries Drupal group .
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Cary
> 
>> On Mar 15, 2016, at 8:39 AM, David Uspal  wrote:
>> 
>> Code4Lib,
>> 
>>  We're in the process of evaluating Drupal 8 as our main site CMS (we're on 
>> Concrete5 v6 so migrating to v7 is a large effort, which makes this a good 
>> time to evaluate alternatives).  As such, I'm trying to compile a list of 
>> the most used Drupal extensions designed for libraries that are compatible 
>> with Drupal 8.  Does anyone know where such a list might be found and/or 
>> could help in compiling such a list?  Thanks!
>> 
>> David K. Uspal
>> Technology Development Specialist
>> Falvey Memorial Library
>> Phone: 610-519-8954
>> Email: david.us...@villanova.edu

Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata

[Rees, John (NIH/NLM) [E]]

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  wrote:

> MeSH?
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> > On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Jacob Ratliff 
> 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
>

Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

[Mandi Schwarz]

UNBC's e-resource subject list can be found here: 
http://wizard.unbc.ca/screens/erm_index.html  We're a small research 
university, so our focus is understandably narrower than FLU's or UToronto's.

HTH,
Mandi

Mandi Schwarz
Library Assistant - Serials
University of Northern British Columbia
250-960-6455; mandi.schw...@unbc.ca



-Original Message-
From: Code for Libraries [mailto:CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU] On Behalf Of Lisa 
Gayhart
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2016 11:35 AM
To: CODE4LIB@LISTSERV.ND.EDU
Subject: Re: [CODE4LIB] List of Database Subjects

Hi Matthew and list,

Here is the University of Toronto Libraries¹ version of subjects listing:

https://resource.library.utoronto.ca/a-z/subjects.html


Thanks,

Lisa Gayhart
User Experience Librarian

On 2016-03-15, 2:26 PM, "Code for Libraries on behalf of Burrell, Matthew"
 wrote:

>Hello all,
>I am looking for examples of lists of database subjects similar to one 
>we are using, https://www.lib.fsu.edu/eresources/subjects , as a 
>comparative model. We would like to limit the number of subjects and 
>searching for examples. Thanks in advance! I appreciate it.
>Matt
>
>Matt Burrell
>Web Developer
>The Florida State University Libraries
>Tallahassee, Florida
>(850) 814-9634
>Or Schedule an Appointment

Re: [CODE4LIB] Public Health Metadata

[todd.d.robb...@gmail.com]

This thread warms my heart. It's great to see the code4lib community
working in concert.

That is all.





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  wrote:
>
> > MeSH?
> >
> > Sent from my iPhone
> >
> > > On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Jacob Ratliff 
> > 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 

[CODE4LIB] ISO: State of the art in video annotation

[Stuart Snydman]

I am doing some discovery for a DH project that, at its center, needs to 
annotate digital video (locally produced videos that will be hosted and 
streamed on the web in our local environment).  We are still gathering 
requirements, but it needs to:


  *   have a user friendly interface for creating annotations, better on the 
web but not an absolute requirement
  *   create annotations at specific timestamps, or across spans of time, and 
have those annotations associated with regions of the video image.
  *   annotations could include, text, audio, video, image, URL, etc.

We’d prefer open source solutions that can be integrated into a web app, but 
aren’t fully closed to alternatives.  We’d strongly prefer a solution that 
supports open standards for annotation or is at least capable of supporting 
open standards.

I know there are many, many video annotation projects.  What is the current 
state of the art in web-based video annotation making and viewing?

Many thanks,

Stu

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Re: [CODE4LIB] ISO: State of the art in video annotation

[Erwin Verbruggen]

Dear Stuart,

A few years ago we started an overview of video annotation projects and
tools for the EUscreen network. We haven't been able to turn it into a
state of the art document as of yet, but I'm hoping it would be useful for
such an endeavour:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6CIL8oQjkAtUe2LGInrUgxpNzj5k9s17Mihz6UotIM/edit?usp=sharing

Kind regards,
Erwin

Erwin Verbruggen
Project lead R&D

Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE  Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB
Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl


On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Stuart Snydman 
wrote:

> I am doing some discovery for a DH project that, at its center, needs to
> annotate digital video (locally produced videos that will be hosted and
> streamed on the web in our local environment).  We are still gathering
> requirements, but it needs to:
>
>
>   *   have a user friendly interface for creating annotations, better on
> the web but not an absolute requirement
>   *   create annotations at specific timestamps, or across spans of time,
> and have those annotations associated with regions of the video image.
>   *   annotations could include, text, audio, video, image, URL, etc.
>
> We’d prefer open source solutions that can be integrated into a web app,
> but aren’t fully closed to alternatives.  We’d strongly prefer a solution
> that supports open standards for annotation or is at least capable of
> supporting open standards.
>
> I know there are many, many video annotation projects.  What is the
> current state of the art in web-based video annotation making and viewing?
>
> Many thanks,
>
> Stu
>
>

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Re: [CODE4LIB] ISO: State of the art in video annotation

[Andrew Gordon]

Thanks for sending out that document, Erwin.

This is a really interesting topic and I feel like video annotation on the
web should be more of a thing.

On top of what Erwin already provided (OVA looks particularly like A
project that might be good to look at for your needs) there are also:

http://mith.us/OACVideoAnnotator/ - which is a proof of concept using the
open annotation specification (http://www.openannotation.org/). The
specification is format agnostic, intending annotatation of objects with
text, media, web resources etc. - the genius.com folks seem to be involved.

http://cowlog.org/ - pretty basic, but appears to get the job done and is
web based.

There are scads of proprietary and open source desktop video
coding/annotating software that I will spare you the burden of going
through. Full disclosure, I work on a project whose sibling project is a
desktop video coding tool for psychology researchers.

>From my vantage point, video annotation software generally seems to be
developed around a specific set of user needs (a type of researcher and
research subject, for example). More specific target audience gets a more
robust set of tools targeted at those needs.

The biggest issues come down to diversity of encoding for video and the
ability for operating systems to support the playback of them. This said,
the web has even more limitations around what video formats it will
support, but if you control the source of the video, this might not be such
a big deal.

It would really be great to see video annotation for specifically DH
projects warm up.

Have a look at all the resources and determine whether you think it might
be useful just to roll your own annotator using HTML5, some sophisticated
JS libraries for handling media, and hopefully wrapping in a standard like
the Open Annotation Data model (linked above).

Would love to hear what others think/may have experienced.

Drew





On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 5:04 PM, Erwin Verbruggen <
everbrug...@beeldengeluid.nl> wrote:

> Dear Stuart,
>
> A few years ago we started an overview of video annotation projects and
> tools for the EUscreen network. We haven't been able to turn it into a
> state of the art document as of yet, but I'm hoping it would be useful for
> such an endeavour:
>
> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1t6CIL8oQjkAtUe2LGInrUgxpNzj5k9s17Mihz6UotIM/edit?usp=sharing
>
> Kind regards,
> Erwin
>
> Erwin Verbruggen
> Project lead R&D
>
> Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision
> Media Parkboulevard 1, 1217 WE  Hilversum | Postbus 1060, 1200 BB
> Hilversum | beeldengeluid.nl
>
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2016 at 9:38 PM, Stuart Snydman 
> wrote:
>
> > I am doing some discovery for a DH project that, at its center, needs to
> > annotate digital video (locally produced videos that will be hosted and
> > streamed on the web in our local environment).  We are still gathering
> > requirements, but it needs to:
> >
> >
> >   *   have a user friendly interface for creating annotations, better on
> > the web but not an absolute requirement
> >   *   create annotations at specific timestamps, or across spans of time,
> > and have those annotations associated with regions of the video image.
> >   *   annotations could include, text, audio, video, image, URL, etc.
> >
> > We’d prefer open source solutions that can be integrated into a web app,
> > but aren’t fully closed to alternatives.  We’d strongly prefer a solution
> > that supports open standards for annotation or is at least capable of
> > supporting open standards.
> >
> > I know there are many, many video annotation projects.  What is the
> > current state of the art in web-based video annotation making and
> viewing?
> >
> > Many thanks,
> >
> > Stu
> >
> >
>