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The UN might have something useful. Here is a guide to some of their vocabs: http://research.un.org/en/un-resources/terminology The first one, AGROVOC, seems like it might help: http://aims.fao.org/vest-registry/vocabularies/agrovoc-multilingual-agricultural-thesaurus On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:49 AM, [log in to unmask] < [log in to unmask]> wrote: > Jacob, > > You could try browsing Linked Open Vocabularies: > http://lov.okfn.org/dataset/lov/vocabs?&tag=Health > > Cheers! > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:43 PM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]> > wrote: > > > MeSH is a little helpful, but it is slightly different than the realm of > > public health, which spends a lot of time on the systems surrounding > > health, as well as the health areas themselves. (e.g. Pharmacy supply > chain > > management). That's the direction I'm heading though! > > > > Jacob > > > > On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 2:35 PM, Carol Bean <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > > > > > MeSH? > > > > > > Sent from my iPhone > > > > > > > On Mar 14, 2016, at 1:22 PM, Jacob Ratliff <[log in to unmask]> > > > wrote: > > > > > > > > Hi all, > > > > > > > > I currently work in an International public health non-profit, and we > > > are setting up enterprise wide document management for dealing with > > > Knowledge Management and Information Management issues. Lots of moving > > > pieces, but I wanted to get some input on metadata specific to the > > > medical/health world. I am looking for some metadata guidance > > specifically > > > related to the medical/health world. Is anyone using any standard > > > controlled vocabularies? Should I be looking into Linked Data? I'm > > starting > > > off the research phase for all of the metadata, so links to resources > and > > > case studies is greatly helpful! > > > > > > > > Bonus points to anything that is international in scope, as over 75% > of > > > the employees at my company are non-US based (most of them in Africa). > > > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Jacob Ratliff > > > > Information Architect / UX Specialsit > > > > Management Sciences for Health > > > > [log in to unmask] > > > > > > > > > -- > Tod Robbins > Digital Asset Manager, MLIS > todrobbins.com | @todrobbins <http://www.twitter.com/#!/todrobbins> > -- Laura Buchholz Digital Projects Librarian Reed College Library 503-517-7629 [log in to unmask]