Domènec Turuguet i Mayol
Domènec Turuguet i Mayol (1924-2003) was an information scientist and chemist specializing in toxicology.
Life
Domènec Turuguet i Mayol was born in 1924. As a child, he contracted polio, which required him to use crutches for the remainder of his life. Despite this, he possessed a warm and cheerful personality, and was well-regarded by all his colleagues. He was a regular participant at professional conferences, where he consistently contributed valuable insights.
Domènec Turuguet i Mayol graduated with a degree in Chemical Sciences, but his professional career focused on Information Science at the Barcelona Research and Development Center of the Spanish National Research Council (CSIC). Subsequently, shortly after the launch of the National Occupational Safety and Health Plan (1971), he joined the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (INSHT). At the National Documentation Center (CND) —a leading resource in Spain, Latin America, and Europe for occupational health information— he developed a substantial body of work that served most professionals working in the field of occupational risk.
Turuguet was a founding member of the Societat Catalana de Documentació i Informació (SOCADI), established in Barcelona in 1984.
He married Maria [family name to be confirmed] and had no children. He died in 2003.
Contributions
Domènec Turuguet edited Boletín Bibliográfico (1973-1986), later renamed Erga. Revista bibliográfica sobre condiciones de trabajo (1987-2020), a publication that became a benchmark in the field of occupational health knowledge management. In an era and country where research was limited, particularly in occupational health, Domènec Turuguet dedicated his efforts to systematizing, updating, and contextualizing knowledge, recognizing that a modern society must address its challenges related to scientific information and documentation. He was an expert in thesaurus development and terminology.
Publications
Only bibliographic and LIS publications are listed.
El Centro de Información y Documentación del Servicio Social de Higiene y Seguridad del Trabajo. Conferencia Iberoamericana sobre Información y Documentación Científica y Tecnología: actas. Madrid, 1978, pp. 67-69.
El centro de información y documentación del Servicio social de Higiene y Seguridad del trabajo. Revista española de documentación científica, Vol. 2, Nº 1, 1979, pp. 35-38.
La CBD (Coordinadora de Documentación Biomédica): un intento de cooperación entre servicios de documentación biomédica de Catalunya. With Roser Cruells Serra. Primeras Jornadas Españolas de Documentación Automatizada, 20-21 noviembre 1984, pp. 761-772.
Bibliografía sobre contaminación y contaminantes. Madrid: Instituto Nacional de Seguridad e Higiene en el Trabajo, 1985. ISBN 84-505-0998-X
Un tesauro sobre riegos profesionales y su prevención (experiencia concreta sobre su elaboración). Primeras Jornadas de Información y Documentación Biomédica, Santander, junio de 1986. ISBN 84-398-9283-7, pp. 151-156.
CDU frente a Tesauro en la indización temática para la automatización de una biblioteca científico-técnica. Segundas Jornadas de Documentación Automatizada, 20-22 noviembre 1986. ISBN 84-505-4512-9, pp. 275-286. [1]
Sobre el análisis documental. Information World en Español (IWE), n. 9, noviembre de 1992, p. 7. [2]
Consideraciones sobre los tesauros. Information World en Español (IWE), n. 21, febrero de 1994, pp. 12-13. [3]
Further reading
Domènec Turuguet i Mayol (1924-2003). Jordi Castejón. Archivos de prevención de riesgos laborales, Vol. 7, Nº. 1 (Enero-Marzo), 2004, pp. 28-29. [4]