Oliver,
Your suggestion sound very usefull.
Have you considered how thesaurus software might be used to provide support
for this. Wordnet is a thesaurus database which (I think) has been used as
the source for the OOo English thesaurus.
The OOo English thesaurus gives for "beech" gives "Beech Tree" and "Tree"
A wordnet query gives as one of its several query type results -
Sense 1
beech, beech tree -- (any of several large deciduous trees with rounded
spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts
enclosed in burs; north temperate regions)
MEMBER OF: Fagus, genus Fagus -- (beeches)
So it would seem that wordnet even provides a latin name list.
Worknet also contains a hierachy of terms -
beech, beech tree -- (any of several large deciduous trees with rounded
spreading crowns and smooth gray bark and small sweet edible triangular nuts
enclosed in burs; north temperate regions)
=> tree -- (a tall perennial woody plant having a main trunk and
branches forming a distinct elevated crown; includes both gymnosperms and
angiosperms)
=> woody plant, ligneous plant -- (a plant having hard lignified
tissues or woody parts especially stems)
=> vascular plant, tracheophyte -- (green plant having a
vascular system: ferns, gymnosperms, angiosperms)
=> plant, flora, plant life -- (a living organism lacking
the power of locomotion)
=> organism, being -- (a living thing that has (or can
develop) the ability to act or function independently)
=> living thing, animate thing -- (a living (or
once living) entity)
=> object, physical object -- (a tangible and
visible entity; an entity that can cast a shadow; "it was full of rackets,
balls and other objects")
=> entity -- (that which is perceived or
known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving))
Regards
David
On Friday 04 November 2005 12:20 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hello Biblio-Developers,
>
> I'm a researcher in natural sciences and I have been using
> bibliographis software for a several years now, startig with the
> first version of Reference Manager, recently switching to EndNote
> (with some regrets), but I have also been testing several
> share/freeware programs.
> My expectations are rather humble, so most programs would do most
> things I like them to, why I got stuck with EndNote is rather a
> problem of easy compatibility with colleagues databases.
> I have read the basic papers on the web page of the bibliographis
> project and I have not much to add (well, there are always details on
> a which list .... :-), however there is one thing I would find
> immensely useful and have to date not found in any program I tested.
> And this is hierarchical keywords
> Let me explain with some example from my subject :
> - you might have several references in your list that treat
> different tree species : oak, beech, pine, spruce.
> now two of these are deciduous (oak , beech) and two are coniferes
> (pine, spruce), and all of them are forest trees.
> What I would like a bibliographic program able to do is to look up
> the keyword "beech" in a thesaurus (that the user created personally
> for his keywords) and find that its a deciduous and a tree. With the
> effect that I will add to the references the keywords for beech, oak
> etc. and when I search for "deciduous" I will find all articles
> concerning beech and oak and when I search for "tree" I will find all
> references with keywords "oak", "beech", "pine", "spruce".
> Basically this consists in linking keywords unidirectionally with one
> another.
> However also linking bidirectionally is (or even more) important :
> same example : in one reference concerning oaks I type "oak" as
> reference, in another i might type "Quercus", which is the latin name
> for oaks; When I want to search for references concerning oaks, I
> always need to remember that there were two possible ways to code the
> keyword for this reference and search both. With this simple example
> this might seem not a difficult problem, in a conventional program I
> just need to do a search of "oak" OR "quercus". However the problem
> is that in a scientific reference list that is used for bibliographic
> work (that is not only "citing" but mainly searching), there will be
> many keywords as example one of my main reference data bases has
> about 2000 references abd nearly 3000 keywords). Many of these
> keywords will be synonymous and its easy not to remember one of the
> synonyms in a search and thus not finding certain articles.
> Therefore I would appreciate much if the keyword database of the
> bibliographic project could have the ability to be relational so that
> one could easily link uni o bi directionally several keywords.
>
> I would be happy to discuss this more with anybody who has any ideas
> on this subject.
>
> Cheerio
>
> Oliver Brendel
>
>
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