[Sigcr-l] looking for KO software, on behalf of Debra Hiom of Intute

[Margie Hlava]

Hi Koralijka,

I belive that the Data Harmony Thesaurus Master can do this for you 
quite easily.  There are several XML/RDF options for import as well 
as export from straight forward Z39.19 format to zthes (the Z39.50 
protocol) to SKOS to OWL.  There are many other import and export 
options from MARC to comma and tab 
delimited.  www.dataharmony.com  You can use it as a desktop edition, 
enterprise edition.  You can use it over the web or installed on your 
own computers.

You can see some examples of it at 
http://www.accessinn.com/asistThesaurus/  This is the ASIST Thesaurus 
Online.  Several Universities use this as part of a teaching tool 
set. Here you can see the entire thesaurus term record on the left 
side including the  BT, NT, RT notes, status etc  These are all user 
configurable - this is the default format.

www.mediasleuth.com will show you the National Information Center for 
Educational Media Thesaurus in use as a navigation structure - other 
options for search using a thesaurus are also shown on that page. On 
this example you can expand and contract the hierarchy on the left 
and see the number of items indexed with each term.  On the right you 
can enter a term - auto completion for the thesaurus preferred and 
non preferred terms (synonyms) will show as a drop down menu.  If you 
choose a non preferred term the preferred term will automatically be 
presented.  If you type "psy" or something (type slowly if the 
connection is slow) and choose a nonpreferred  term the results will 
be presented with snippets and links to the full record on the 
right.  The left may show the related terms to expand the search and 
the narrower terms to refine the search.  Another example is 
www.NICEM.com/search.php.  The search engine behind this is a new one 
called Search Harmony - to be released this spring.

This is a taxonomy and rules based which can provide automatic 
metadata extraction from subject metadata as well as people. places 
and things.  Additional software options including inline metadata 
tagging taking the user to exactly the metadata resource in the full 
text, etc are also available

Margie

Marjorie M.K. Hlava
President and Chairman
Access Innovations / Data Harmony
www.dataharmony.com
www.accessinn.com
505-998-0800
mhlava at accessinn.com

At 09:31 AM 1/19/2009, Koraljka Golub wrote:
>Intute (http://www.intute.ac.uk/)
>
>"We are planning to make some significant changes to the presentation of
>a subject-based hierarchical browse structure and are looking for a tool
>that will allow us to export our existing subject hierarchy, make
>changes to the structure, and then import this back into our database.
>The assumption is that this will be a visual tool using some standard
>text-based export format, e.g XML/RDF? The work will be done by subject
>specialists rather than technical staff so it is important that the tool
>is relatively straightforward to use. Is anyone aware of any tools that
>might help with this work? If so please contact Debra Hiom at
>d.hiom at bristol.ac.uk"
>
>Thanks for your help!
>
>--
>Koraljka Golub
>Research Officer, Ph.D.
>UKOLN
>Bath, BA2 7AY
>United Kingdom
>
>Phone: +44 (0) 1225 383 619
>E-mail: k.golub at ukoln.ac.uk
>Webpage: http://www.ukoln.ac.uk/ukoln/staff/k.golub/
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