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

[Emanuil Tolev]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Congress_Subject_Headings ?


On 5 December 2013 14:25, Puneet Kishor <punk.kish at gmail.com> wrote:

> Not really a scientific taxonomy, but at the very least there might be
> lessons in
> http://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/40970
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> Puneet Kishor
> 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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