Hello all, Thanks for the Belgic brick explaination Julia. You also wrote... >>Is it possible for the SMR community to >>submit candidate terms for the MDA Object Thesaurus? Yes candidate terms are most welcome. I will check the procedures for submitting terms and get back to you. >>When we migrated the SMR database to Exegesis HBSMR we retained our existing >>finds terminology within one of the user-defined fields as I find it >>extremely useful for searches and far more flexible than the MDA thesaurus. If you have a copy of your list Julia (digital preferably, and ideally with scope notes) we could map this to the mda thesaurus for you, and identify the potential candidate terms. If this is possible, send it to me (off list). All the best Ed [log in to unmask]