13th Conference on Professional Information Resources

Autor: Lenka Maixnerová, National Medical Library, Czech Republic

Co-authors:

Alena Šímová, Helena Bouzková, Filip Kříž, Ondřej Horsák, Marie Votípková, National Medical Library, Czech Republic

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Abstract:

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH) is a controlled vocabulary of medical and health terms, which is used for indexing, cataloguing and searching biomedical and health-related information. Created by the United States National Library of Medicine (NLM), Bethesda. The terms (descriptors) of the vocabulary are arranged in a hierarchy to the tree structure. The MeSH also contains database “Supplementary Concept Records”, which includes the names of chemicals and their synonyms. At present the dictionary contains cca 25.000 main descriptors and cca 170.000 names of chemicals. The MeSH is available in 17 language translations. The Czech version has been created National Medical Library (NML), Prague since 1977, computerized since 1990. Since 2005 the thezaurus has been translated online in MeSH Translation Maintenance System (MTMS), which is produced NLM Bethesda for translation needs. The use of the MTMS is for the purpose of translation free. The MTMS translations are automatically included to the Unified Medical Language and Retrieval System (UMLS). The translators receive data in XML format on demand. The NML in cooperation with the AiP Beroun issue the MeSH including chemicals on the DVD Bibliomedica. The NLM plans to make MeSH available in the portal Medvik.

About author:

Lenka Maixnerová works as head of the Department of Bibliography and Cataloguing of the National Medical Library, Prague.

Author: Sanja Antonic, University of Belgrade - University Library "Svetozar Markovic", Serbia

Co-authors:

Cvetana Krstev, University of Belgrade - Faculty of Philology, Serbia

Author: Michaela Dombrovská, Charles University - Faculty of Philosophy and Arts, Czech Republic

Author: Květa Hartmanová, Museum of Decorative Arts in Prague Library, Czech Republic

Co-authors:

Václav Kapsa, Czech National Library / Jiří Pavlík, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Author: Věra Kroftová, Agricultural Research Institute Kroměříž, Ltd., Agrotest fyto, Ltd., Czech Republic

Author: Heike vom Orde, Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, Germany

Author: Vendula Papíková, Centre of Biomedical Informatics, Institute of Computer Science of the Czech Academy of Sciences

Co-authors:

Richard Papik, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic

Author: Dragana Stolic, University of Belgrade - University Library

Author: Norbert Végh, Slovak Library for the Blind, Slovak Republic