SIGIA-L Mail Archives: Re: SIGIA-L: thesauri development/manage
Re: SIGIA-L: thesauri development/management tools
From: Andrew McNaughton (andrew_at_tki.org.nz)
Date: Wed Feb 07 2001 - 02:42:25 EST
You can maintain your SN data in multites. It's up to you to build a site
around it.
Multites exports in ANSI text format. It's a workable basis for
integration, and has the advantage that you can move to using different
software if required.
There's a caveat though: Multites allows you to define your own relations,
allowing for multiple parallel hierarchies and so forth. It also allows
you to have multiple BT relationships from a single term. If you use this
you may find other less flexible software can't represent your thesaurus
model. Believe me, you will want to use this functionality.
For example:
A typical Information Retrieval thesaurus will have various relationships
between the terms themselves, which are useful for reccomending
alternative searches to a user, and might concievably be used
automatically by a search engine (I favour user mediation). These
relationships don't necessarily equate to the way you fit a
multidimensional tangle of (potential) term relationships into a clean
hierarchy for the purpose of site navigation. It's useful to define your
own relation types to represent your navigation structure independently of
the other relations which you model. You might define hierarchical
relation counterparts NBT and NNT to map your primary navigation
hierarchy. With other software, you would typically have to maintain
multiple thesauri. Hence the name multites(.exe) - remember 8.3
filenames?
Andrew McNaughton
On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, sean wrote:
> Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 23:27:55 -0500
> From: sean <spcoon_at_mindspring.com>
> To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
> Subject: SIGIA-L: thesauri development/management tools
>
> so far (through my pseudo due-diligence of reading specs and getting
> reco's) multites does seem to be the best app out there for classic
> thesauri development. but the million dollar question is... does it
> interface well with project-specific database solutions such as... using
> SN or qualifiers to manage display of objects from same CV or from other
> CV's in a faceted thesauri?
>
> sean patrick coon
> information architect
>
> ps. thanks for the response
>
> ==========================
> We've used multites and been happy with it. Well worth the price.
> Recommended to us by the expert on such things at the National Library
> of
> New Zealand.
>
> Andrew McNaughton
>
>
>
> On Tue, 6 Feb 2001, sean wrote:
>
> > Date: Tue, 06 Feb 2001 21:31:58 -0500
> > From: sean <spcoon_at_mindspring.com>
> > To: sigia-l_at_asis.org
> > Subject: SIGIA-L: thesauri development/management tools
> >
> > i'm in the midst of developing a faceted thesauri for a client (search
>
> > results/content navigation) and need a dev/management tool to move
> > forward.
> >
> > any suggestions?
> >
> > thanks
> >
> > -sean
>
>
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Andrew McNaughton
Te Kete Ipurangi: The Online Learning Centre
andrew_at_tki.org.nz
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