[compute] [Sigia-l] Thesaurus software

[tOM Trottier]

Dear Kenneth Bryson, 

Ah...., creating a thesaurus. Ideally, a data dictionary should support that natively. 

So it's not just meaning you want, but use and definition for each term, attributes and objects, and the 
ability to slice and dice by substring, length, domain, subset, ... to find related items and see how identical 
they are....

tOM

On Thursday, March 16, 2006 at 14:52, 
Kenneth Bryson <kbryson at toronto.ca> wrote:

> Thanks Tom,  
> 
> Though I was referring to software that you could use to build
> taxonomies and thesauri (in the Information Science sense).   We need to
> collect terms from multiple corporate sources and feed them into a
> central subject heading thesaurus.  It would be great if we could just
> provide an excell or access template and collect the data that way, then
> import it into the thesaurus software to collate and QA the terms, then
> export out to XML or something for use with our web content management
> tool.
> 
> Wishful thinking?  Web 2.0 opportunity?
> 
> -kb
> 
> >>> "tOM Trottier" <tOM at Abacurial.com> 3/16/2006 2:33 PM >>>
> Dear Kenneth,
> 
> You can also use web resources like onelook.com or rhymezone.com.
> 
> tOM
> 
> On 16 Mar 2006 at 13:42,
> Kenneth Bryson <kbryson at toronto.ca> wrote:
> 
> > Hi there,
> > 
> > Any recommendations on good, usable, thesaurus software?   I've seen
> > Multites, but I don't think you can import terms WITH relationships
> > or even hierachical structures to that software.  Anybody know of
> > any software that can do this?


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