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

Thu Dec 5 18:41:57 UTC 2013

Do you know if there's a machine-readable version of this list?

http://www.plosone.org/taxonomy

On 5 December 2013 09:58, Florence Piron <Florence.Piron at com.ulaval.ca> wrote:
> The PLoS taxonomy is very interesting, but very very limited in regard to
> social and human sciences...
> At least, Wikipedia is more precise (but forgets archaeology and
> philosophy!):
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> Environmental Studies
> Anthropology
> Communication
> Criminology
> Cultural studies
> Economics
> Education
> History
> Human geography
> International relations
> Linguistics
> Law
> Political science
> Psychology
> Social psychology
> Sociology
> Social work
> Internet
> media
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> Florence Piron
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> Le 2013-12-05 à 10:29, Peter Murray-Rust a écrit :
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> On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:58 PM, Holmgren, Stephanie (NIH/NIEHS) [E]
> <holmgre1 at niehs.nih.gov> wrote:
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>> 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)
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> 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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