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BQS — issue: renaming subject heading

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  • Key: BQS-12
  • Legacy Issue Number: 4526
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Japan Biological Informatics Consortium ( Martin Senger)
  • Summary:

    During our implementation it became obvious that name 'subheading' is
    confusing - because it may mean both sub-heading (a lower level heading),
    and a 'subject heading' (as used in cataloques as SEARS).
    For example, the MEDLINE uses the term MeSH for "medical subject
    headings", which has a descriptor (which is equivalent to BQS's
    subheading) and which has also a set of more detailed words called
    'subheadings'. Confusing, isn't it? AFAIK, MEDLINE itself is going to
    change their naming of 'subheadings' to 'qualifiers' soon.

    Resolution:
    To change name 'subheading' to 'subject_heading'. Which means to have
    in DsLSRBibObject module this IDL:

    typedef string SubjectHeading;
    typedef sequence<SubjectHeading> SubjectHeadingList;

    ...

    valuetype BibRefSubject

    { public KeywordList keywords; public SubjectHeadingList subject_headings; public string subject_heading_collection; public ClassificationCodeList codes; }

    ;
  • Reported: BQS 1.0b1 — Wed, 22 Aug 2001 04:00 GMT
  • Disposition: Resolved — BQS 1.0
  • Disposition Summary:

    see below
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT