UMLS SEARCHING WORKSTATION

统一医学语言系统(UMLS)最近由 国家医学图书馆提供了一个难得的机会来缓解主要的 书目检索系统用户的负担--不同的检索 数据库之间的词汇表和各种接口。 马里兰大学健康科学图书馆(HSL)建议创建 一种可作为书目使用的工作站软件系统 临床工作站的检索组件。在三场比赛中- 年项目HSL将朝着三个具体目标努力。 作为第一步，HSL将设计一种成本适中的基于微型计算机的 将UMLS存储在磁盘上并提供DOS的工作站- 基于窗口的界面。界面将接受关键字或主题 术语，并通过UMLS引导他们选择 在目标主题词库中的标题，如Mesh，国会图书馆主题 标题、DSM-III或中表示的任何其他词汇 UMLS。 第二个目标是将UMLS工作站连接到几个 HSL目前提供的书目数据库。工作站 将透明地显示主机数据库的现有界面，但是 如果用户请求或如果用户请求，将提供对UMLS的访问 在进行搜索时输入了非词汇表术语，如主题 搜索，这需要输入受控词汇术语。 最终目标是为五个接口中的每一个提供一个标准接口 数据库(HSL OPAC、MaryMED、HSL/Current Contents、JuncLit和CINAHL) 在三个检索系统(LS/2000、TOXNET和Silver)下运行 拼盘)。作为第一个目标开发的UMLS接口将是 替换接口的型号。翻译的工作站软件 每个系统到新接口的本机接口将被写入 对于每个检索系统。

The recent release of the Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) by the National Library of Medicine offers a singular opportunity to ease a major burden of the user of bibliographic retrieval systems - differing search vocabularies and a variety of interfaces among databases. The University of Maryland Health Sciences Library (HSL) proposes to create a workstation software system which could serve as the bibliographic retrieval component of a clinical workstation. Over the course of a three- year project the HSL will work toward three specific objectives. As a first step, the HSL will devise a moderate-cost microcomputer-based workstation that will store the UMLS on magnetic disk and provide a DOS- based windowing interface. The interface would accept keyword or subject terms from users and guide them, via the UMLS, toward selection of a heading in the target thesaurus such as MeSH, Library of Congress Subject Headings, DSM-III, or any of the other vocabularies represented in the UMLS. The second objective is to link the UMLS workstation to several of the bibliographic databases currently available in the HSL. The workstation would transparently display the existing interface of the host database but would provide access to the UMLS if requested by the user or if the user entered a non-vocabulary term while doing a search, such as a subject search, which required entry of controlled vocabulary terms. The final objective is to provide a standard interface for each of five databases (HSL OPAC, MaryMED, HSL/Current Contents, PsycLit, and CINAHL) running under three retrieval systems (LS/2000, TOXNET, and Silver Platter). The UMLS interface developed as the first objective will be the model for a replacement interface. Workstation software that translates the "native" interface of each system to the new interface will be written for each retrieval system.