How to read ConceptChoir Concept

How to read ConceptChoir Concept

When a concept is highlighted from either hierarchical display or alphabetical display, its record detail will be listed in the Node Detail Area of the ConceptChoir Vocabulary Explorer. Figure 1 is the record detail of the concept "Marsupial" from our sample vocabulary Animal.

Figure 1. Record Detail of the concept "Marsupial"

We can further break the ConceptChoir Record View Interface into 3 section: Tool Bar section, Element Heading section, and Element Details section.

Tool Bar

Tool Bar section (Figure 2) is the top-most section of the ConceptChoir Detail View, composed of three buttons. These three buttons will enable you to perform various actions with references to the displaying record.

Figure 2. Tool Bar

Email button enables to you to send the record to others via email. SMTP server information must be set for this operation to function. Once SMTP server information is set properly, click on the email button will open the ConceptChoir mailer program as shown in Figure 2.1. After specify your email account password, recipient's address, and email subject, click Send button to send out email and close the mailer. Click Cancel at anytime to close the mailer program.

Figure 2.1 ConceptChoir Mailer

Print button enables you to send the record to printer for hard copy printing.

HTML button enables you to save the record detail page to a static HTML page to your local computer.

Element Heading

Element Heading section (Figure 3) is located under the Tool Bar section. It includes all element headings defined for the selected record. In our example, the Element Heading section includes Terms, Concept Attributes, Scope Notes, and Broader Concepts four element headings.

Figure 3 Element Heading

You can easily navigate to an element by clicking on its corresponding heading. Click on the element heading will make the element detail visible in the Element Detail section, scrolling the section if necessary. The sign in front of a element indicates that that element is in display. To hide an element from being displayed, simply click the sign of the hiding element. The sign will turn to sign and the element is hidden completely from the Element Detail section. Click the in front of a hidden element will turn its Element Detail display mode to visible. For records with many elements defined, you can use the Left and Right arrows to scroll the element heading section till the desired heading is in view.

Element Detail

Element Detail section (Figure 4) is located at the bottom of the Node Detail Area of the Vocabulary Explorer. It lists all elements and attributes in defined for the concept record in great details.

Figure 4 Element Detail

Other than Concept ID and Concept Stage that listed on top of the Element Detail section, all elements and attributes values are grouped together by their belonging elements. To hide an element detail, click the sign at the end of the element row. Figure 4.1 shows the Scope Notes element detail is hidden. To unhide an element detail, click the sign at the end of the hided element row to show the element.

Figure 4.1 Element Detail - Scope Notes Element is hidden

When multiple languages are defined for the vocabulary, a sign or sign will be attached to elements that has language attribute defined. A sign means information from all languages are listed, while a sign means only information from vocabulary language defined is listed. You can easily swap between the two states by clicking the sign or sign.

When relations are defined on a element, a sign or sign will be attached to the element at the end of the element row. See Figure 4.2 for record detail example with relations defined on elements.

Figure 4.2 Element Detail - with Relations defined

As you can see from the above Figure, a relation "Term Contributors" is defined for Terms element and another relation "Broader Concept Attributes" are defined for Broader Concepts element. A sign means information from relations are listed, while a sign means all relations belong to the element will be hide. You can easily swap between the two states by clicking the sign or sign. You will also notice a sign or sign at the end of every relation row. They function the same way as to the element rows. sign will hide the relation details, while will display the relation details

You can easily navigate to other concept in this vocabulary that have links to the current concept by various relations, such as Related relation, or Broader Concepts relation by click on the concepts shown in Element Detail section. In the example provided above, concept "European styles and periods" is linked by a BT relationship. Click on the "European styles and periods" will bring you to the "European styles and periods" concept detail. The Tree Display Area will also be updated to show the hierarchical position of the concept "European styles and periods".