Introducing tags to Journal of Cheminformatics by Bailey Fallon.
From the post:
Journal of Cheminformatics will now be “tagging” its publications, allowing articles related by common themes to be linked together.
Where an article has been tagged, readers will be able access all other articles that share the same tag via a link at the right hand side of the HTML, making it easier to find related content within the journal.
This functionality has been launched for three resources that appear frequently in Journal of Cheminformatics and we will continue to add tags when relevant.
- Open Babel: Open Babel is an open source chemical toolbox that interconverts over 110 chemical data formats. The first paper describing the features and implementation of open Babel appeared in Journal of Cheminformatics in 2011, and this tag links it with a number of other papers that use the toolkit
- PubChem: PubChem is an open archive for the biological activities of small molecules, which provides search and analysis tools to assist users in locating desired information. This tag amalgamates the papers published in the PubChem3D thematic series with other papers reporting applications and developments of PubChem
- InChI: The InChI is as a textual identifier for chemical substances, which provides a standard way of representing chemical information. It is machine readable, making it a valuable tool for cheminformaticians, and this tag links a number of papers in Journal of Cheminformatics that rely on its use
It’s not sophisticated authoring of associations but carefully done, tagging can collate information resources for users.
On export to a topic map application, implied roles could be made explicit, assuming the original tagging was consistent.