Nature Publishing Group enlist Semantico in metadata enrichment project

June 24, 2010 - PRLog -- Richard Padley, Managing Director, Semantico, said: ‘We’re pleased to be working again with Nature Publishing Group on this innovative project involving metadata enrichment using MarkLogic’s information infrastructure software.’

Amanda Ward, Nature Publishing Group, said, ‘With the Medline Data Loader service from Semantico we have now been able to add MeSH (or Medical Subject Heading) descriptors and other key metadata terms from MEDLINE - the abstracts database from the National Library of Medicine - to our journals platform.  This enrichment of our content is being applied to newly published articles as well as to our archive material and will allow applications to build new discovery channels over the semantic networks we are beginning to put in place on nature.com.’

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Nature Publishing Group (NPG) is a publisher of high impact scientific and medical information in print and online. NPG publishes journals, online databases and services across the life, physical, chemical and applied sciences and clinical medicine.

Focusing on the needs of scientists, Nature (founded in 1869) is the leading weekly, international scientific journal. In addition, for this audience, NPG publishes a range of Nature research journals and Nature Reviews journals, plus a range of prestigious academic journals including society-owned publications. Online, nature.com provides over 5 million visitors per month with access to NPG publications and online databases and services, including Nature News and NatureJobs plus access to Nature Network and Nature Education’s Scitable.com.

Scientific American is at the heart of NPG’s newly-formed consumer media division, meeting the needs of the general public. Founded in 1845, Scientific American is the oldest continuously published magazine in the US and the leading authoritative publication for science in the general media. Together with scientificamerican.com and 16 local language editions around the world it reaches over 3 million consumers and scientists. Other titles include Scientific American Mind and Spektrum der Wissenschaft in Germany.

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