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BQS — issue: adding the source of subject headings

  • Key: BQS-13
  • Legacy Issue Number: 4527
  • Status: closed  
  • Source: Japan Biological Informatics Consortium ( Martin Senger)
  • Summary:

    The current spec says that the subject headings come from standard
    lists (e.g. SEARS, LCSH). But the spec does not have an attribute
    specifying this source. After consulting with the librarians and similar
    people, we found that this information is so important that it should
    qualify for having its own and explicit attribute.
    This is what was shown in the last resolution as
    public string subject_heading_collection;
    The contents of this attribute could be, for example, "SEARS", "MeSH",
    "LCSH".

    This, of course, opens the question why we are not suggesting the same
    for classification codes. We don't because we feel that classification
    codes are unique, they are more or less like identifers - and therefore
    they can be even expressed as identifiers using the same notation as with
    databases (source/id).
    But the subject headings are not necessarily unique: for example
    something like "MeSH/blahblah" can appear in several places in the MeSH
    trees) - and therefore using for that the pattern used for identifiers
    would not be appropriate. Therefore, the example just above would be coded
    as "blahblah" as one of the 'subject_heading' strings, and the word "MeSH"
    woud be in 'subject_heading_collection'.

    Resolution:
    To add subject_heading_collection (as shown already).
    To clarify documentation about differences between subject headings and
    classification codes, with a suggestion that for classification code may
    be used pattern for identifiers.

  • 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