NOVEL Cataloging Resources

Describing NOVEL resources is a uniquely challenging process. The tools I have used to assist me in the process are listed here, in order of priority.

1. Descriptive information with the resource
   Rely heavily on the terms and descriptions provided by the content expert, if available.
   This is the guiding information. Use these terms to proceed.
   


2. NANOS Curriculum Outline
   http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/NOVEL_outline.html
   Use this to determine menu structure when none is provided by the content expert.
   Seek terms matching the resource, pull menu structure and terms for a starting point.
   


3. NLM MeSH
   http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez?db=mesh
   U.S. National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary used for indexing articles for MEDLINE/PubMed. MeSH terminology provides a consistent way to retrieve information that may use different terminology for the same concepts.
   Consider: Disease, Symptom, Procedure, Treatment
   


4. UMLS
   http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/
   The Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS) approach involves the development of a set of widely distributed Knowledge Sources (Metathesuarus®, Semantic Network, and SPECIALIST Lexicon) that can be used by a variety of applications to compensate for differences in the way concepts are expressed in a variety of computerized biomedical sources.
   
   Click on "Knowledge Source Server" (it's a dynamic URL so you can't get there directly)
   Username:
   Password:
   Enter search value: enter terms in this field
   Click the Metathesaurus Concept Search button to search terms
   


5. Metadata Guidelines for the Mountain West Digital Library
   http://155.97.12.155/mwdl/public/mwdl/metadata_MWDL2006.pdf



6. Western States Dublin Core Metadata Best Practices
   http://www.cdpheritage.org/cdp/documents/cdpdcmbp.pdf



7. CONTENTdm Acquisition Station - Basic information entry, uploading items
   CDM Web Admin site - Final metadata entry, save and index
   http://content.lib.utah.edu/cgi-bin/admin/start.exe



8. CDM Querie Builder
   http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm4/cqr/cqr1.php
   Build query to locate items in CDM collection, send to NOVEL Web team
   


9. NOVEL Web Site
   http://library.med.utah.edu/NOVEL/
   Add queries as links in the menu structure for the collection and for the Curriculum Outline.