"Vasil Babamov is the Editor of the Chemical Abstracts Thesaurus.  He oversees the development of the Thesaurus, which currently has about 15,000 preferred terms, and its integration into the building of the CA database.

A particularly concern is the implications that the expanded networked applications of thesauri will have on the development of the thesaurus structure and content to ensure that the thesaurus remains a useful tool for purposes beyond its traditional implementation.  Another concern is with providing networked thesaurus access to the analysts involved in building the database and maximizing the benefits of using the thesaurus in the database building process.  The CA Thesaurus is presently fully accessible only internally: on STN via the existing STN thesaurus software; via an Intranet web-based hypertext thesaurus tool; and via a couple of internally developed tools that partially integrate the thesaurus into the database building process. We are anticipating incorporating the thesaurus into the public access to the CA database on STN, the web-based STN-easy and Scifinder that provide access to multiple databases, and into other planned CAS products. Additional work needs to be done on the thesaurus to enable automatic backfile search in light of the major changes our vocabulary has undergone. The only public assess to the thesaurus is a restricted version of the internal web thesaurus hypertext tool that provides only a listing of the thesaurus terms. This listing can be accessed at: http://www.cas.org/vocabulary/. Dr. Babamov received a Ph.D. in Chemical Physics from the University of Illinois in 1977 and was engaged in research and teaching in that field at several universities before joining Chemical Abstracts as a Scientific Information Analyst in 1986." (Quelle)
EMail: vbabamov@cas.org