{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/build-a-terminology-map-before-optimizing-the-query",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0508",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Build a terminology map before optimizing the query",
  "summary": "You cannot search a vocabulary you have not discovered yet.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Use a few authoritative papers, standards and representative recent sources to collect canonical terms, acronyms, historical names and common wording. Add controlled vocabulary terms when the database supports them. Then rebuild the query from this map instead of guessing synonyms from memory.",
  "limits": [
    "Adding every synonym can destroy precision; retain terms that retrieve relevant material in a test search."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-research-search-strategy"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-1356932559D1592D"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "Cochrane recommends combining free-text terms with controlled subject headings where the database provides them.",
      "source_id": "RS-1356932559D1592D",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "Controlled vocabulary differs by database and may lag emerging terminology.",
      "locator": "Controlled vocabulary and text words"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "The field uses several names, abbreviations or technical terms for the same idea."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Adding every synonym can destroy precision; retain terms that retrieve relevant material in a test search."
  ],
  "example": "A search on 'AI trust' expands to reliance, advice taking, appropriate reliance, confidence calibration and human-AI decision making.",
  "check": "At least one high-value search term came from the field's actual language rather than your initial wording.",
  "steps": [
    "Canonical technical term is known.",
    "Common acronym and spelling variants are included.",
    "Historical or neighboring terms are considered where relevant.",
    "Database subject headings are checked when available.",
    "Ambiguous terms that create noise are documented."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-1356932559D1592D",
      "title": "Chapter 4: Searching for and selecting studies",
      "url": "https://www.cochrane.org/authors/handbooks-and-manuals/handbook/current/chapter-04"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [
    {
      "from": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0508",
      "to": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-0509",
      "type": "useful_with",
      "url": "/knowledge/use-known-good-papers-as-a-search-test"
    }
  ],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-F645BF33EA699D13",
      "title": "Search for evidence as a reproducible process, not a lucky query",
      "url": "/collections/search-for-evidence-as-a-reproducible-process-not-a-lucky-query"
    }
  ]
}