Issue 4526: issue: renaming subject heading (bqs-ftf)
Source: Japan Biological Informatics Consortium (Mr. Martin Senger, martin.senger(at)gmail.com)
Nature: Uncategorized Issue
Severity: 
Summary: During our implementation it became obvious that name 'subheading' is
confusing - because it may mean both sub-heading (a lower level heading),
and a 'subject heading' (as used in cataloques as SEARS).
   For example, the MEDLINE uses the term MeSH for "medical subject
headings", which has a descriptor (which is equivalent to BQS's
subheading) and which has also a set of more detailed words called
'subheadings'. Confusing, isn't it? AFAIK, MEDLINE itself is going to
change their naming of 'subheadings' to 'qualifiers' soon.

Resolution:
   To change name 'subheading' to 'subject_heading'. Which means to have
in DsLSRBibObject module this IDL:

    typedef string SubjectHeading;
    typedef sequence<SubjectHeading> SubjectHeadingList;

    ...

    valuetype BibRefSubject {
	public KeywordList keywords;
        public SubjectHeadingList subject_headings;
        public string subject_heading_collection;
	public ClassificationCodeList codes;
    };

Resolution: see below
Revised Text: To change name subheading to subject_heading. Which means to change the IDL in the DsLSRBibObject module to the following IDL: 
    typedef string SubjectHeading;
    typedef sequence SubjectHeadingList;

    // in valuetype BibRefSubject
    public SubjectHeadingList subject_headings;

Actions taken:
August 22, 2001: received issue
May 13, 2002: closed issue
Discussion: 

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Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:02:42 +0100 (BST)
From: Martin Senger <senger@ebi.ac.uk>
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cc: Juergen Boldt <juergen@omg.org>
Subject: issue: renaming subject heading
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[ Juergen, could you please post it to the 'issues'. Thanks. ]

Note that this issue is related to the next issue I am going to post.
Therefore the suggested resolution already include a suggestion
discussed
in the next issue.

Problem:
   During our implementation it became obvious that name 'subheading'
   is
confusing - because it may mean both sub-heading (a lower level
   heading),
and a 'subject heading' (as used in cataloques as SEARS).
   For example, the MEDLINE uses the term MeSH for "medical subject
headings", which has a descriptor (which is equivalent to BQS's
subheading) and which has also a set of more detailed words called
'subheadings'. Confusing, isn't it? AFAIK, MEDLINE itself is going to
change their naming of 'subheadings' to 'qualifiers' soon.

Resolution:
   To change name 'subheading' to 'subject_heading'. Which means to
   have
in DsLSRBibObject module this IDL:

    typedef string SubjectHeading;
    typedef sequence<SubjectHeading> SubjectHeadingList;

    ...

    valuetype BibRefSubject {
    public KeywordList keywords;
        public SubjectHeadingList subject_headings;
        public string subject_heading_collection;
	public ClassificationCodeList codes;
    };

   Martin

-- 
Martin Senger

EMBL Outstation - Hinxton                Senger@EBI.ac.uk     
European Bioinformatics Institute        Phone: (+44) 1223 494636      
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus             (Switchboard:     494444)
Hinxton                                  Fax  : (+44) 1223 494468
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom
http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger


Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2001 15:43:41 +0000 (GMT)
From: Martin Senger <senger@ebi.ac.uk>
To: bqs-ftf@omg.org
cc: openbqs-dev@ebi.ac.uk
Subject: Call to vote: Issue 4526 - renaming subject heading
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This message *is* a vote.
The voting deadline is Friday, 30 November, at 5:00pm GMT.

I encourage you to vote publically.  In any case, your votes will
appear
in my vote summary and in the FTF final report.  When you reply to
this
message, please delete all of the proposed resolution text.
I hope to hear from all FTF members soon. Thank you.
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Summary:
   During our implementation it became obvious that name 'subheading'
is confusing - because it may mean both sub-heading (a lower level
heading), and a 'subject heading' (as used in cataloques as SEARS).
   For example, the MEDLINE uses the term MeSH for "medical subject
headings", which has a descriptor (which is equivalent to BQS's
subheading) and which has also a set of more detailed words called
'subheadings'. AFAIK, MEDLINE itself is going to change their naming
   of
'subheadings' to 'qualifiers' soon.

Proposed resolution:
   To change name 'subheading' to 'subject_heading'. Which means to
   change
the IDL in the DsLSRBibObject module to the following IDL:

    typedef string SubjectHeading;
    typedef sequence<SubjectHeading> SubjectHeadingList;

    // in valuetype BibRefSubject
    public SubjectHeadingList subject_headings;


-- 
Martin Senger

EMBL Outstation - Hinxton                Senger@EBI.ac.uk     
European Bioinformatics Institute        Phone: (+44) 1223 494636      
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus             (Switchboard:     494444)
Hinxton                                  Fax  : (+44) 1223 494468
Cambridge CB10 1SD
United Kingdom
http://industry.ebi.ac.uk/~senger