Re: Tool to create SKOS

Dear Javier,

Is there a MAC version available ?

- Luis

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Luis Bermudez Ph.D.
MMI Technical Lead - http://marinemetadata.org
bermudez@mbari.org Tel:  (831) 775-1929
MBARI 7700 Sandholdt Road, Moss Landing CA 95039-9644, USA



On Jan 9, 2007, at 8:45 AM, Javier Lacasta wrote:

>
> Dear all,
>
> I have the pleasure to present you the new Open Source project  
> named ThManager. This is an Open Source Tool for creating and  
> visualizing SKOS RDF vocabularies.
>
> The tool is being distributed over the Source Forge platform and it  
> is available at http://thmanager.sourceforge.net/
>
> The tool has been developed by the Advanced Information Systems  
> Laboratory (http://iaaa.cps.unizar.es <http://iaaa.cps.unizar.es/>)  
> of the University of Zaragoza (Spain).
>
> The tool has been implemented in Java and has the following features:
>
> · Multi-platform (Windows, Unix). As it has been developed in Java  
> and the storage of metadata records is managed directly through the  
> file system, the application can be deployed in any platform with  
> the minimum requirement of having installed a Java virtual machine.
>
> · Multilingual. The application has been developed following the  
> Java internationalization methodology. Nowadays, there are Spanish  
> and English versions. With little effort, other languages could be  
> supported.
>
> · Selection and filtering of the thesauri stored in the local  
> repository.
>
> · Description of thesauri by means of metadata in compliance with a  
> Dublin Core based application profile for thesaurus. These metadata  
> can be either visualized in HTML or edited through a form.
>
> · Visualization of thesaurus concepts. The visualization interface  
> includes the following widgets:
>
> o Alphabetic viewer: It provides the list of thesaurus concepts  
> alphabetically ordered in the selected language.
>
> o Hierarchical viewer: It provides a tree showing the hierarchical  
> structure of thesaurus concepts.
>
> o Concept viewer: For a selected concept it shows all the  
> properties allowing additionally the navigation to the related  
> concepts by means of hyperlinks.
>
> o Search tool: It facilitates search of concepts. The searching  
> process is based on preferred labels allowing the following  
> criteria: “equals”,”starts with” and “contains”.
>
> · Edition of thesaurus content. The tool provides an edition  
> interface to modify the content of a thesaurus: creation of  
> concepts, deletion of concepts, and update of concept properties.
>
> · Exchange of thesauri according to SKOS format. The export  
> operation includes the export of thesaurus metadata.
>
> · Extraction of related concepts in WordNet. It generates an  
> automatic mapping of thesaurus concepts against the concepts of  
> Wordnet lexical database.
>
> · On-line help by means of PDF visualization.
>
> I hope the tool will be interesting for you. Please, let us know  
> any comment, problem or opinion you will have about the tool.
>
> Enjoy ThManager.
>
> Best regards
>
> -- 
> ----------------------------------------------------
> Javier Lacasta Miguel
> Departamento de Informática e Ingeniería de Sistemas
> Centro Politécnico Superior, Universidad de Zaragoza
> Edificio Ada Byron, María de Luna, 1
> E-50018 Zaragoza, España
> Tf: 976 76 21 34
> Fax: 976 76 19 14
> mailto: jlacasta@unizar.es
> http://iaaa.cps.unizar.es/
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>
>

Received on Tuesday, 9 January 2007 18:23:19 UTC