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After you sign into the ConceptChoir system, the system will open the ConceptChoir Vocabulary Explorer (VE), the main window of ConceptChoir. VE is composed of five areas: the Tree Display Area (TDA), Tool Bar Area (TBA), Concept Search Area (CSA), Web Search Area (WSA), and Node Detail Area (NDA) as shown in Figure 1. The TDA displays the concepts in the selected hierarchy in a tree structure, much like Microsoft Windows products. The TBA contains command buttons you can use to manipulate the hierarchy in the TDA, the WSD allows you to search selected concepts in the TDA against the Internet using popular search engines, and the NDA shows the detailed information of the highlighted concept in the TDA. Figure 1. Vocabulary Explorer 1. Tree Display Area ConceptChoir's Tree Display Area (TDA) adapts a new design. As you would notice from the diagrams followed, you can separate the Tree Display Area into two parts. The top part is the Heading Area, and the bottom part is the Display Area. ConceptChoir merges all your vocabularies into a single Root node for easy navigations through vocabularies, facets, and hierarchies. click the
Click the
Click the
Tree Display Area (TDA)
has two display mode, Tree Display View and Alphabetical Display View.
The Hierarchical Display View, as shown in Figure 2, presents your data
in a expandable/collapsible hierarchy tree format. When you sign in the
ConceptChoir system, your last visited concept will be chosen
to be the current selected concept. If this is your first visit to
the ConceptChoir system, the vocabulary root will be your current
concept.
You can switch from a Tree Display View to Alphabetical Display View. To switch the display, simply click the  button
from the tool bar as shown in Figure 3, and the system
will show the hierarchy in the Alphabetical Display View (Figure 4).
Alphabetical Display View presents your vocabulary in a list format. When you are
in the Alphabetical Display View, you can click
the Alpha Index Letter
to
change the alphabet range in which the concepts are displayed. To switch back, click the
There are six possible symbols placed in front of the concepts with different meanings:
2. Node Detail Area When you click any node or concept in either a tree display or an alphabetical display of TDA, the detailed information for the concept will be displayed in the Node Detail Area (NDA) in a view-only mode. The NDA has two display mode, view-only mode (Figure 5) and edit mode (Figure 6). If you wish to add a new concept as the current selected concept's child, or too edit the detailed information of the current selected concept, click the corresponding buttons in the tool bar and NDA will be enabled for editing. Please see discussions on ConceptChoir Concept System to read more about Node Detail Area.
3. Tool Bar Area The Tool Bar Area (TBA) contains two sections: command button section (Figure 7)and operation link section (Figure 8).
4. Concept Search Area The Concept Search Area provides the users a easy way to find and jump to a concept.
Input the concept to search in the text box and click Search button. if the concept exists in current vocabulary, system will find the matching concept, and highlight the concept and display the concept's hierarchical position in the TDA. Concept Search supports all Boolean operators: "AND", "OR", "NOT" and wildcard "*". When searching with Boolean operators, Concept Search will recognize your searching query and return concepts that satisfy your demand. Search scope depends on current HT status, the top area of Tree view. When the user has drilled down into a hierarchy, The search scope is the current hierarchy, When they are multiple results, the results will be displayed in alphabetical view automatically. 5. Web Search Area The Web Search Area (WSA) contains a Website dropdown list, a Language dropdown list, and three check boxes for Broader Term, UF, and RT, and a Search button (Figure 10). Yahoo is the default search engine, but you can change the default setting using the lookup table utility. The default for the Language dropdown list is the current interface language, and as default, Broader Term, synonyms, and related terms are not included in the search.
To search Internet, simply highlight a concept (or few concepts) from the tree display or alphabetical display, and click the Search button, if the default is what you want. The system will then send the appropriate URL to the specified search engine, resulting in a list of search results from your search in a browser window. If you want to use a different search engine from the default, click the Website dropdown list to select it. You can improve the search precision by combining broader terms with the selected concept by clicking BT check box. Also, click the UF and RT check boxes if you want the search to include the synonyms and related terms of the concept selected to improve the search recall. Use the Language dropdown menu to set search results desired language. If your favorite search engine is not in the list, you can add it using the Configure Web Search Engines utility provided in ConceptChoir Manager. See the discussion of how to configure web search engines for more details.
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sign
in front of the Root node to list your vocabularies in the Display Area
at any time during your navigation. (See Figure below)
symbol would promote the chosen vocabulary node to the Heading Area, and
list the facets/hierarchies it contains in the Display Area. If Facets
are defined to exist in the vocabulary, a list of facets will be
displayed. Otherwise, a list of hierarchies will be displayed. Facet
node will be noted by a
symbol
while Hierarchy node will be noted by a
symbol.
(See Figure below)
sign
after the operation. Clicking on the
- means the concept is still in process stage
- mean the concept have been approved
- means the concept is checked out by you
- means the concept is checked out by others
- means the concept has been approved and is checked out by you
-
means the concept has been approved and is checked out buy others
allows you to insert a new
concept under
the highlighted node. To add a new concept, highlight a concept
of which the new concept will be a narrower concept, and click the
Insert button. See the discussion of
allows you to edit the highlighted node. To edit an existing
new concept, highlight the target concept and click the Edit
button. See the discussion of 
allows you to delete the highlighted node. To delete
an existing concept, highlight the target concept and click
the Delete button. See the discussion of
- allows you to check out the highlighted node so that no other uses
can further modify it. To Check out a
concept, highlight the target concept and click the Check
Out button. See the discussion of
- allows you to check in the previously checked out highlighted node so that other uses
can further modify it. To check in a concept, highlight the
target concept and click the Check In button. See the
discussion of
allows you
to search the current vocabulary. See the discussion of the
allows you
to perform a global search in all vocabularies. search. See the discussion of the
allows you
to perform a global replace in current vocabulary. search. See the discussion of the
allows you to fully expand the
highlighted node. To fully expand
the highlighted node, simply click the Expand button and the
system will display all its children in a hierarchical structure. 
allows you to fully collapse the
highlighted node. To
fully collapse the highlighted node, simply click the Collapse
button and the system will collapse all its children.
- allows you to adjust the children order of the highlighted node.
To adjust a node's children order, highlight the targeted node and
click the Adjust Narrower Concept Order button to open the
Concept Children Order window to adjust the children order. Note
that a node's Narrower Concepts Order Attribute must
be "By User Specified Order" in order for the Adjust Narrower
Concept Order button to function.
-
allows you to cut the highlighted node to ConceptChoir clipboard. To
cut a concept to ConceptChoir clipboard, highlighted the target
concept and click the Cut button. A scissor sign will
appear in front of the concept after the operation.
- allows you to paste the concept in ConceptChoir clipboard as
children of the highlighted node. To paste concepts in
ConceptChoir clipboard to a concept, highlight the target
concept and click the Paste button.
- allows you to add Concept Source to the highlighted nodes. To add
concept source to a node, highlight the node and then click the
Add Concept Source button to open the Add Concept Source
Window. To add a common source for multiple concepts, first
highlight those concepts, then click the Add Concept Source
button.
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allows you to undo your previous actions. To undo previous actions,
click Undo button to open the Undo Manager to select which
action performed need to be undo. Please read more at
-
allows you to undelete previously deleted concepts. To undelete
concepts,
click Recycle button to open the Concept Recycle Manager to select which
concept deleted need to be restore. Please read more at
- allows you to merge highlighted nodes. To merge highlighted nodes,
select multiple node by holding Ctrl key and mouse click, click Merge Concepts button to merge the selected nodes.
- allows you to utilize ConceptChoir Work Flow Manager to
collaborate with other vocabulary developers. Please read discussion
on 
- allows you to open ConceptChoir Personal Options window as shown
in Figure 7.1 and Figure 7.2
Option - allows you to set level of promotion on top terms.
ConceptChoir's Top Level makes navigation through hierarchical
display easier and faster. When user expand a node from hierarchical
displayed tree, ConceptChoir will first check the hierarchical level
of the concept. If the level of the concept is less or equal to the
Top Level number, the node will be promoted to the Heading Area and
only its narrower concepts are listed in the Display Area. Level 0
is the default value, meaning no promotion will occur when expanding
top terms. Figure 7.3 shows the expanding results when no promotion
allowed. Figure 7.4 shows the same expanding results but with Top
Level set to "1". Note that the concept "Marsupial"
with hierarchical level 1 was promoted to
the header section with Top Level set to 1.
- allows
you to log off from ConceptChoir.
