| Medical Subject Authority Issues & Trends |
| Background
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| Update ** Update ** MeSH Authority Downloads Available Direct from NLM LOCATORPlus ** Update ** Update
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| NLM Authority Records Accessible in LOCATORplus (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/nlmauthrecsfile/nlmauthrec.html) |
| "NLM has implemented the Web Authorities feature in LOCATORplus, making its authority records accessible to library users worldwide."- 29 January 2003
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| Medical Subject Headings in OCLC Services
(http://www.tulane.edu/~matas/HSOCLCUG/MeSHOCLChome.html) |
| Homepage for the Health Sciences OCLC Users Group Task Force, 2001-2004 |
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| Medical Subject Heading RESOLUTION (http://www.tulane.edu/~matas/HSOCLCUG/meetings/Oct2001proposal.html) |
| Revised resolution, based upon content of the original resolution (1995), to lobby OCLC to have the MeSH authority file loaded into the OCLC system. |
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| International Authority Issues: AACR, FRBR & MARC Proposals and Discussion Papers for Review
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| Joint Steering Committee for Revision of AACR
(http://www.nlc-bnc.ca/jsc/0205out.html) |
| " * Authority records in AACR: rule revision proposal for new part III of AACR by Aug. 9, 2002; discussion at Sept. 2002 JSC meeting. ...
* FRBR terminology: second report by June 30, 2002; constituents’ responses by Aug. 9, 2002; discussion at Sept. 2002 JSC meeting."
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| Functional Requirements for Bibliographic Records - Final Report (http://www.ifla.org/VII/s13/frbr/frbr.htm) |
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Standing Committee of the
IFLA Section on Cataloguing.
(September 1997) |
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| PROPOSAL NO. : 2002-DP08: Dealing with FRBR Expressions in MARC 21 (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-dp08.html) |
| "...describes the work of the Joint Steering Committee's Format Variation Working Group to facilitate expression-level collocation in online systems, and discusses possible approaches to achieving this collocation using the MARC 21 Holdings, Bibliographic and Authority Formats."
DATE: May 30, 2002 --
See: "V. The Authority Format: Expression-Level Authority Records"
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| DISCUSSION PAPER NO: DP2003-03 : Adding Field 024 (Other Standard Identifier) to the MARC 21 Authority Format
(http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2003/2003-dp03.html) |
| REVISED: 12/16/2002 - This paper discusses adding Field 024 (Other Standard Identifier) to the MARC 21 Authority Format to allow for recording standard identifiers relevant to the entity described in the authority record.
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| PROPOSAL NO.: 2002-15 : Defining field 065 (Other Classification Number) in the MARC 21 Authority Format
(http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-15.html) |
| 06/17/02 - Results of the MARC Advisory Committee discussion - Approved. |
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| Proposal No. 2002-13: Changes for FAST Subject Headings (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-13.html) |
| 06/17/02 - Results of the MARC Advisory Committee discussion - Approved as amended. -- RELATED Discussion paper: 2002-DP03(Jan. 2002)
OCLC is developing a subject vocabulary, FAST, for application to web resources that is based on LCSH but is intended to be easier to apply. |
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| Proposal No. 2002-01: Definition of Subfield $u (URI) in field 670
(Source Data Found) in the MARC 21 Authority Format
(http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-01.html) |
| 01/21/02 - Results of the MARC Advisory Committee discussion - Approved.
03/20/02 - Results of LC/NLC review - Approved. |
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| Proposal No. 2002-07: Definition of Additional Second Indicator Values
for Specific Subject Systems in Field 655 in the MARC 21 Bibliographic
Format
(http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2002/2002-07.html) |
| Proposes adding second indicator values 0 through 6 to field 655.
01/21/02 - Results of the MARC Advisory Committee discussion - Approved.
Change approved for implementation by the MARC Advisory Committee and the Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information committee (MARBI). Implemented no earlier than 90 days after the official release of the next update for the MARC 21 Format for Bibliographic Data (scheduled for the Fourth Quarter 2002).
Field 655 (Index/Term --Genre/Form) Proposal No. 2002-07
Rename second indicator in field 655 to "Thesaurus"
Add additional values 0 to 6 in field 655 second indicator as follows:
0 - Library of Congress Subject Headings
1 - LC subject headings for children's literature
2 - Medical Subject Headings
3 - National Agriculture Library subject authority file
4 - Source not specified
5 - Canadian Subject Headings
6 - Répertoire de vedettes-matière
03/20/02 - Results of LC/NLC review - Approved.
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| Discussion Paper 2001-DP05: Multilingual Authority Records in the MARC 21 Authority Format (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/2001/2001-dp05.html) |
| 6/18/01 - Results of the MARC Advisory Committee discussion - The majority of the participants favored the context marker model as the most productive approach. Further exploration and experimentation should be considered using the context marker model to ensure its usefulness and long-term applicability for libraries. Some wanted to explore a single record approach with Model C to allow for more flexibility. Another consideration is how the model works for subject records. A new discussion paper will be written that further explores the context marker model and the use of single or multiple records for the midwinter meeting.
"...explore a single record approach with Model C to allow for more flexibility. Another consideration is how the model works for subject records. A new discussion paper will be written that further explores the context marker model and the use of single or multiple records for the midwinter meeting."
Excerpt below:
"Model C (recommended) -- 3 CONTEXT MARKING TECHNIQUE; EXAMPLES"
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"Example 2 - Multilingual subject headings...
008/10 (Cataloging rules): n (not applicable)
008/11 (Subject system/thesaurus rules): a (LCSH)
040 $b (Language of cataloging): eng (English)
150 ## $a Child psychology
450 ## $a Behavior, Child
450 ## $a Child behavior
450 ## $a Child study
550 ## $a Child development
550 ## $a Developmental psychology
550 ## $a Psychology
550 ## $a Child psychiatry
550 ## $a Child rearing
550 ## $a Educational psychology
750 #4 $a Kinderpsychologie $7 swd [Schlagwortnormdatei]
750 #4 $a Psicologia del nino $7 lcsh//spa
750 #4 $a $7 lcsh//kor
750 #2 $a Child Psychology $7 mesh
- The 150 heading is appropriate for use in an English-language LCSH catalog. Two headings are appropriate for catalogs using simple translated LCSH headings; the heading "Kindpsychologie" is appropriate in a (German-language) Schlagwortnormdatei catalog; the heading "Child Psychology" is the equivalent MeSH heading."
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| About: MARC Advisory Committee (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/advisory.html) |
| "The Library of Congress also maintains an electronic discussion forum for the formats (MARC@LOC.GOV) ... opening discussion to all interested librarians."
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| About: About ALA MARBI (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi.html) |
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| ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marbi/an2002_age.html) |
| DRAFT AGENDA for ALA ANNUAL CONFERENCE
June 15-17, 2002 ATLANTA, GA
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| ALCTS/LITA/RUSA Machine-Readable Bibliographic Information Committee (MARBI) (http://www.loc.gov/marc/marbi/mw2002_age.html) |
| FINAL AGENDA ALA Midwinter. Discussed in a meeting of the MARC Advisory Committee on January 19-21, 2002 in New Orleans, LA.
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| National Library of Medicine Resources
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| National Library of Medicine. Medical Subject Headings - Home Page (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html) |
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| Instructions for Deconstructing MeSH Subjects on NLM MARC21 Distributed Records (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/unstringmesh.html) |
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| MeSH Update Information (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/updateinfo.html) |
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| Application of MeSH for Medical Catalogers (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/tsd/cataloging/catmesh.html) |
| National Library of Medicine. A guide to the Cataloging Section's harmonization of practices for subject heading content and structure with NLM's indexing practices. |
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| National Library of Medicine. Cataloging Practices. (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/catpractices2002.html) |
| "This section of the Annotated Alphabetic List includes specific instructions for the correct coordination of
main headings and subheadings, and assignment of publication types for cataloging. Also included are
instructions for medical catalogers"... |
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| Conversion Specifications for MeSH to MARC Authority Format (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/marc99.pdf) |
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| NLM Technical Bulletin, Current Issue (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/techbull/current_issue.html) |
| See articles:
- Schulman JL. What's New for 2003 MeSH®. NLM Tech Bull. 2002 Nov-Dec;(329):e5.
Link to article
- Schulman JL. What's New for 2002 MeSH®. NLM Tech Bull. 2001 Nov-Dec;(322):e9.
Link to article
- Jacobs A, Scheel M. Cataloging News. NLM Tech Bull. 2001 Nov-Dec;(323):e12.
Link to article
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| NLM FAQ: Cataloging and Bibliographic Questions (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqcat.html) |
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| OCLC Resources
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| OCLC's Global Strategy (http://www.oclc.org/strategy/) |
| "Through global cooperation, we can convert these ideas into value-added services." -
Jay Jordan, President and Chief Executive Officer, OCLC |
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| Connexion documentation (http://www2.oclc.org/connexion/documentation) |
| Printable Connexion system guides (in PDF format) are available. Users may also click on "Help" on the header bar of any Connexion screen to view
context-specific information and instructions.
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| OCLC's Electronic Lists (http://www.oclc.org/oclc/forms/listserv.htm) |
| OCLC has a discussion list called OCLC-Cat. The scope includes
discussion about any OCLC-related cataloging product. |
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| Other Protocols and Implementations
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| A Critique of the new version of MeSH by Leopoldo M. Montoya (http://www.library.umc.edu/ttrends/tt-18-1.html#CRITIQUE) |
| Technical Trends, Spring, Vol. 18, no. 1 (2004)
Leopoldo M. Montoya Librarian for Collections and Technical Services Health Sciences Libraries, Drexel University.
This is a continuation of an earlier article, available online:
Technical Trends, 12, no. 3 (1999)
New Structure of MeSH / L.M. Montoya
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| New York University. The Frederick L. Ehrman Medical Library. Link to library catalog. (http://medcat.med.nyu.edu/) |
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| Northwestern University, Chicago. Galter Health Sciences Library. (http://nucat.galter.northwestern.edu/) |
| Northwestern University's online catalog.
- Olson, Tony (2001) Integrating LCSH and MeSH in Information Systems.
Subject Retrieval in a Networked Environment
(Paper presented at IFA Satellite Meeting, OCLC, Dublin, OH, August 2001.)
- Olson, Tony & Strawn, Gary. (1997). Mapping the LCSH and MeSH systems.
Information Technology and Libraries
16(1) March: 5-19.
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| Related Resources |
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| Library of Congress Authorities (Announcement June 29, 2002)
(http://authorities.loc.gov) |
| This Library of Congress service is available on a trial basis. Name, subject, and title authority records, (including series authority records) may be searched, displayed, emailed, and downloaded. As this is a trial service, LC would appreciate user feedback in evaluating the pilot. Please send comments
to: ils@loc.gov
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| Conference on Bibliographic Control in the New Millennium (Library of Congress) (http://lcweb.loc.gov/catdir/bibcontrol/actionplan.html) |
| Bibliographic Control of Web Resources:
A Library of Congress Action Plan
(Revised December 19, 2001)
"1.1 Develop a plan to increase the creation and availability of standard records for electronic resources to include authority control and subject analysis."
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"6.3 Support research and development to improve controlled vocabulary mediating tools, including a simplified LCSH."
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| Program for Cooperative Cataloging SACO Home Page (http://www.loc.gov/catdir/pcc/saco.html) |
| Subject Authority Cooperative Program (SACO) was established to provide a means for libraries to submit subject headings and classification numbers to the
Library of Congress. |
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| Related AUTOCAT list discussion: |
| Subject: Authority Control
Date: Jan. 10 2002-
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| AUTOCAT Archives (http://listserv.acsu.buffalo.edu/archives/autocat.html) |
| Ayers, Fred. (Jan 10 2002). Authority Control. AUTOCAT [Online]. Available E-mail: AUTOCAT@ACSU.BUFFALO.EDU [12 Jan 2002].
Excerpts quoted from cited message:...- "I am about to publish in CCQ an article which puts forward the challenging hypothesis that authority control in
spite of all the money we spend on it simply does not work." ...
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- "On the contrary I believe that
authority control properly applied is essential if librarianship is to
remain a viable profession. Without it we might as well have a search
engine to do the work of the library catalogue. I also believe that the
profession and cataloguers in particular, once it has been accepted that
there is a problem, could produce methods of applying authority control
which would work properly."
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| MARC 21 Documentation (http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marcdocz.html) |
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| NISO - National Information Standards Organization (http://www.niso.org/) |
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- NISO standards...developed through consensus, identifies model methods, materials, or practices for libraries, bibliographic and information services, and
publishers."
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| XML Information |
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| MARC Must Die, by Roy Tennant (2002-10-15) (http://libraryjournal.reviewsnews.com/) |
| Roy Tennant's Library Journal column, Digital Libraries (October 15, 2002)
Digital Libraries column link is on the left navigational bar. |
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| XOBIS: XML Organic Bibliographic Information Schema (http://xobis.stanford.edu) |
| The Medlane Project: schema (alpha version, 2002-10-17). "XOBIS attempts to restructure broadly interpreted bibliographic information and authority records in an exploration of the feasibility of replacing MARC." |
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| MARC SGML and XML (MARC Standards)
(http://www.loc.gov/marc/marcsgml.html) |
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| MARC 21 XML Schema (http://www.loc.gov/standards/marcxml/) |
| Official web site for XML schema maintained by the Library of Congress to support lossless conversion to and from
MARC 21 records in the ISO 2709 structure.
A single schema serves all the five MARC 21 formats.
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| World Wide Web Consortium. Namespaces in XML
(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/) |
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| XML Namespaces FAQ / Maintained by Ronald Bourret
(http://www.rpbourret.com/xml/NamespacesFAQ.htm) |
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| Dublin Core Metadata Initiative (DCMI)
(http://dublincore.org) |
| An organization dedicated to promoting the widespread adoption of interoperable metadata standards and developing specialized metadata vocabularies for describing resources that enable more intelligent information discovery systems.
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| XML Name Access Control Metadata Repository: An Experiment at HKUST Library (http://library.ust.hk/info/reports/xmlnac.html) |
| Experiment to demonstrate the potential of using XML format for name access control.
(2 October 2002 - HKUST Library, by Ki-Tat Lam and Louisa Kwok)
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| Topic Maps |
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| XML Topic Maps (XTM) 1.0 (http://www.topicmaps.org/xtm/1.0/) |
| Web site of TopicMaps.Org Authoring Group, an independent consortium of parties developing the applicability of the topic map paradigm [ISO13250]. Topic Maps are an ISO standard |
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| Pepper, Steve. (2000) The TAO of Topic Maps: Finding the Way in the Age of Infoglut. (http://www.ontopia.net/topicmaps/materials/tao.pdf) |
| A paper from XML Europe 2000 providing a non technical introduction to topic maps.
(PDF document) |
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| ISO/IEC 13250:2000 Topic Maps
(http://www.y12.doe.gov/sgml/sc34/document/0129.pdf) |
| Text of the ISO topic map standard.(PDF document) |
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| Professional Organizations
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| ALA. Association for Library Collections & Technical Services (http://www.ala.org/Content/NavigationMenu/ALCTS/ALCTS.htm) |
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| Medical Library Association. Technical Services Section HomePage (http://www.library.umc.edu/tss/) |
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| International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions(IFLA). Section on Classification and Indexing (http://www.ifla.org/VII/s29/sci.htm) |
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| HSOCLCUG (http://hsoclcug.org) |
| The Health Sciences OCLC Users Group was established to maintain at OCLC "a voice that will be heard and recognized as that of a large group of users with specific needs; to be in close contact with OCLC operations staff." The Group also provides a "means for the exchange of information among the members of the Group, from the Group to OCLC, and from OCLC to the Group. The Group also has an an objective to "establish and maintain close relations with the National Library of Medicine, to establish and maintain in the Regional Medical Libraries awareness of OCLC and its impact, and to seek their support and participation." The group also maintains "close contact with, and support for, the Technical Services Section of the Medical Library Association." -- Bylaws, Article II. Objectives, Sections 1-5. |
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| Return to HSOCLCUG home (http://hsoclcug.org) |
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