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It should be good they spend millions on thesauri. Cheers Jon -----Original Message----- From: The Forum for Information Standards in Heritage (FISH) [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Lee, Edmund Sent: 27 June 2003 14:44 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [FISH] Health and Social Services thesaurus Hello Clair, Interesting coincidence as I've just been looking through the UK e-Government metadata standard. This refers to the Medical Subject Headings Thesaurus (MeSH) avialable online for browsing at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html This looks pretty comprehensive from a cursory inspection. NB. no thesaurus is going to be 'Dublin Core' (DC) compliant. DC is a simple metadata standard for describing books and book-like things (archives, databases, web-pages etc). A thesaurus such as MeSH might be used to create DC compliant records (e.g. to record the Subject of a work on health services), but a thesaurus simply is a controlled vocabulary that might be used in DC records, or in any number of other contexts. I've not come across the Help for Health project. Best of luck, Edmund > -----Original Message----- > From: Clair Drever [mailto:[log in to unmask]] > Sent: 27 June 2003 14:18 > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: [FISH] Health and Social Services thesaurus > > > Does anyone know of a Health and Social Services thesaurus? especially > an online one and one that is compliant with Dublin Core and > government metadata standards. I seem to remember there was a > project called Help for Health that was developing one. > > many thanks > > > Clair Drever > Development and Projects Officer > Libraries and Arts Service > Central Library > Phillimore Walk > LONDON, W8 7RX > Telephone: 020 7361 3060 > Mobile: 07967 347 846 > Fax: 020 7361 2976 > > ************************************************************ > The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea > > This e-mail may contain information which is confidential, legally > privileged and/or copyright protected. This e-mail is intended for the > addressee only. If you receive this in error, please contact the > sender and delete the material from your computer. > ************************************************************ >