Tagging blog posts with MeSH
Rachel (of Women’s Health News) and I have a mutual admiration society going. She thinks I don’t suck, (third paragraph from bottom) and I think she’s done something brilliant.
My blog is rarely about medicine, so I’m content with using WordPress categories to organize my posts, but Rachel’s blog is almost always about health issues, so she tags her posts with MeSH, (in addition to her Technorati tags)!
I love the idea of tagging with this controlled vocabulary, and in a recent post, Rachel explains why and how she does it.
Anyone blogging about health or medicine might want to consider doing the same.
There’s a Greasmonkey user script and a couple of Firefox plugins to make inserting Technorati tags into a blogger/blogspot blog easy, but could someone please build Rachel a Firefox extension to make the insertion of MeSH tags easier for her?
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August 15th, 2006 at 9:38 am
Thanks for the link and enthusiasm, David.
August 19th, 2006 at 10:55 pm
[...] Today, I called Mary for advice on something, and we ended up talking about the Health Librarianship Wiki that Dean Giustini has planned at UBC and about Rachel’s MeSH tags over at Women’s Health News- and Mary had the brilliant idea that entries in the Health Librarianship Wiki should have drop-down menus for quickly and conveniently adding MeSH tags. [...]
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