[WEB4LIB] where to get "subject headings"

[Bigwood, David]

Gary,

There are plenty of classification schemes and thesauri about.  The Web
Thesaurus Compendium is at: http://www.darmstadt.gmd.de/~lutes/thesoecd.html
and lists quite a few available on-line.

The Library of Congress keeps track of this kind of thing and has lists at:
http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/re9804ca.html (Subject codes),
http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/re9805cl.html (Classification schemes) and
http://www.loc.gov/marc/relators/re9806su.html (Subject/Index term sources).
Some additions to these lists appear at:
http://lcweb.loc.gov/marc/marcginf.html#naa  Many of these are not available
for free, but would have to be purchased.  

You could select one list and then only use a subset of the terms.  It would
be nice if your list of 50 or so, linked to scope notes, so people could see
just what is meant by "Administration" or some such term.

Sincerely,
David Bigwood
bigwood at lpi.usra.edu
Lunar & Planetary Institute

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> 	From: "Masters, Gary E" <GEM at CDRH.FDA.GOV> 
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> 	I am also looking at databases to drive web pages.  Once everything
> is in a 
> 	database, there ought to be several things to help manage it that
> can not be 
> 	done with other systems.  Perhaps we can share some here as we learn
> what 
> 	works and what does not.   
> 
> 	My solution for a web page (intranet) that has many links was to
> build it on 
> 	a Cold Fusion database.  We will have one database of all types of
> journals 
> 	and another of links.  Before I can turn it over to the programmer,
> I have 
> 	been trying to come up with a list of "descriptors" that can be used
> to 
> 	search and organize the links.  Since our Center is for medical
> devices and 
> 	radiological health we need  medicine, business and the hard
> sciences.  What 
> 	looked like an afternoon's work has started to eat up my schedule
> when I get 
> 	into things like "bioengineering, biochemistry, biotechnology or
> something 
> 	to combine or all three or more?"  We want to keep it to 50 or less
> terms 
> 	that we can display in a table.  Can someone suggest a place that
> has done 
> 	this or a list that I can beg or borrow? 
> 
> 
> 	Thanks, 
> 
> 	Gary 
> 
> 
> 	Gary E. Masters 
> 	Librarian (Systems) 
> 	CDRH - FDA 
> 	(301) 827-6893