(everyone)
I am really pleased how every day there are new terms. Please post here
what additional attributes you would like in each term. I also think we
need to split them further. Here are some examples:
(terminology as in *.dat files). At present we have, say
glossary.urls
glossary.synonyms,
etc.
I think we have to subdivide this further, as in:
chemical.molform
chemical.molwt
chemical.smiles
chemical.2d
chemical.3d
organism.latin
organism.english
crystallography.cif #points to the CIF dictionary
medline.url
biochem.ecnumber
Special fields:
glossary.curator
glossary.indexterm
etc.
Within each glossary the curator will select those terms which can or
must be filled in. This will be done through forms and will much
increase the consistency. It also leads to much easier indexing and
searching.
I also think I will hack the *.dat to be human-writable! At present it's
OK but breaks if humans edit it. Humans should always come before
machines. So I'll have a fomrat like:
*glossary.curator
LesleyWest
StefanSack
*chemical.smiles
CCNOCSC
*organism.latin
Rana temporaria
etc.
Suggestions?
P.
Peter Murray-Rust (pmr1716@ggr.co.uk) Glaxo Research & Development, Greenford,UK
mbglx@seqnet.dl.ac.uk, http://www.dl.ac.uk/CBMT/pmr.html (Thanks to AlanBleasby)