Interoperability - subject classification/terminology

[Johannes Stegmann]

>> >
>> > Please remember that most researchers currently search their abstracts
>> > databases and their toll-access journal content databases without the
help of any
>> > subject classification taxonomies.

This maybe so. But in PubMed, e.g., searcher's input is matched
("invisibly") against a vocabulary, and having matched to a thesaurus term
(i.e. MeSH term) or a included MeSH synonym, PubMed's search engine
searches the database for the MeSH terms (including exploding the terms) in
addition to a simple free text search. This can be followed viewing "Details".

Regards,

Johannes

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Dr. Johannes Stegmann
Charité - University Medicine Berlin
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