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BTW, I hope you share the solution you decide to implement.

Public health research goes on at a lot of institutions (including mine),
and I'm always looking for ways to address weaknesses in our current
practices/systems.

kyle

On Mon, Mar 14, 2016 at 11:43 AM, 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]
> >
>