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. 2015;15(3-4):157-176.
doi: 10.1080/19386389.2015.1099967. Epub 2016 Jan 25.

Transforming the Medical Subject Headings into Linked Data: Creating the Authorized Version of MeSH in RDF

Barbara Bushman  1 , David Anderson  2 , Gang Fu  3
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Transforming the Medical Subject Headings into Linked Data: Creating the Authorized Version of MeSH in RDF

Barbara Bushman et al. J Libr Metadata. 2015.

Abstract

In February 2014 the National Library of Medicine formed the Linked Data Infrastructure Working Group to investigate the potential for publishing linked data, determine best practices for publishing linked data, and prioritize linked data projects, beginning with transforming the Medical Subject Headings as a linked data pilot. This article will review the pilot project to convert the Medical Subject Headings from XML to RDF. It will discuss the collaborative process, the technical and organizational issues tackled, and the future of linked data at the library.

Keywords: National Library of Medicine's Medical Subject Headings; linked data; resource description framework.

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RDF graph diagram showing a typical Topical Descriptor D015242 and its literals
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RDF graph diagram showing a typical Qualifier Q000008 and its literals
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RDF graph diagram showing a typical allowed Descriptor-Qualifier Pair D015242Q000008
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RDF graph diagram showing a typical disallowed DQ pair D000005Q000293
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RDF graph diagram showing a typical SCR C025735
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RDF graph diagram showing a typical Concept M0000001
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RDF graph diagram showing a couple of typical Term instances
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Diagram illustrating one Descriptor organized as the intersection of two overlapping MeSH trees, where ‘Eye’ belongs to both the ‘Body Regions’ tree (A01) and the ‘Sense Organs’ tree (A09)
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Diagram demonstrating how meshv:Descriptor are related to meshv:TreeNumber, and what semantic relations are between them
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