[open-science] Can you help Royal Society with Taxonomies of Science?

Thu Dec 5 15:29:50 UTC 2013

On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Holmgren, Stephanie (NIH/NIEHS) [E] <
holmgre1 at niehs.nih.gov> wrote:

>  Some ideas to explore:
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> PLoS recently launched a taxonomy to code their articles – They may be
> open to an agreement  - http://www.plosone.org/taxonomy
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> CENDI – a US interagency working group of scientific and technical
> information managers has compiled a list of online thesauri and indexing
> resources used by various federal scientific and technical agencies
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> http://www.cendi.gov/projects/proj_terminology.html
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> The ontology route may be too extensive for their needs, but may be worth
> investigating for ideas
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Excellent suggestions and I would hope that PLoS would be receptive to this
becoming widely used (else it's just another confusion)

The following are useful, but the RS covers all subjects.

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> Open Biological and Biomedical Ontologies - http://www.obofoundry.org/
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> This is a directory of ontologies and provides metadata about the ontology
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> National Center for Biomedical Ontology – BioPortal
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> http://www.bioontology.org/BioPortal
> Also a repository
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> Stephanie Holmgren
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> Informationist, Office of Scientific Information Management
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> National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences
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> PO Box 12233, MSC K2-15
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> 111 TW Alexander Drive
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> Durham, NC 27713
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> Tel: 919-541-2599
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> Email: Holmgren at niehs.nih.gov
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> *From:* Emanuil Tolev [mailto:emanuil at cottagelabs.com]
> *Sent:* Thursday, December 05, 2013 9:43 AM
> *To:* Puneet Kishor
> *Cc:* Bacon, Francis; open-science
> *Subject:* Re: [open-science] Can you help Royal Society with Taxonomies
> of Science?
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Subject_Headings ?
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> On 5 December 2013 14:25, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:
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> Not really a scientific taxonomy, but at the very least there might be
> lessons in
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> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/40970
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> --
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> Puneet Kishor
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> Science and Data Policy, Creative Commons
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> On Dec 5, 2013, at 6:21 AM, Peter Murray-Rust <pm286 at cam.ac.uk> wrote:
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>  I got this mail from Francis Bacon (Royal Society of Britain), whowould
> like a scientific taxonomy for organising the RS webpages. We swapped
> emails and we both agree there is no perfect answer, but we'd like
> suggestions for high-level taxonomies. It's probably more important for
> them to exist and be proven useful in some field than trying to create yet
> another one. I'd look to libraries, encyclopedias, museums, etc. for
> authoritative inspiration:
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> Hi Peter
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> Hope you’re well.
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> Do you happen to know of any open or collaborative
> taxonomies/classifications of scientific subjects?
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> One that might, for instance, specify that bioinformatics is a
> sub-category of both biology and computer science.
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> We’re doing some planning for our website and I’d like to ensure we know
> about all the options before picking a particular taxonomy/folksonomy.
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> Many thanks in advance,
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> Francis
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> Francis Bacon
> Digital Manager
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> T +44 20 7451 2517
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> The Royal Society
> 6-9 Carlton House Terrace
> London SW1Y 5AG
> royalsociety.org
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> Peter Murray-Rust
> Reader in Molecular Informatics
> Unilever Centre, Dep. Of Chemistry
> University of Cambridge
> CB2 1EW, UK
> +44-1223-763069
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