Re: more on xnotes

Bruce D'Arcus <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.refdb.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Dec 7, 2003, at 4:03 PM, Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> What you propose is essentially a hierarchical system like MeSH in
> Pubmed. However, the subject child elements allowed by MODS are
> utterly inadequate for e.g. the life sciences. We need a more flexible
> system than MODS allows currently if we adopt such a system at all. I
> reckon this requires some more thinking.

What do one of these MeSH-coded files look like?  Do they conform 
more-or-less to the structure of MARC/MODS subject headings, but just 
have different descriptors?

Bruce



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