ConceptChoir is restructured to provide a completely Web-based architecture incorporating J2EE, XML, and Web Services. Complete multi-lingual support is included via UNICODE standards. Multiple features enhance editing including user-definable data entry and editing. A host of new capabilities improve all aspects of viewing, browsing and searching including Boolean, wide card, and exact searches. For the first time, user-definable reports are supported. New control features provide user-defined security and permission. Flexible integration with external Web-based applications is facilitated via standard APIs such as Web Services and Javascripts. And, all of these and all other enhancements are completely documented in a new comprehensively accessible Help system.

Selected New Features of ConceptChoir:

• New and Improved Architecture, Technology, and Design

• Completely Web-based, utilizing J2EE, XML, and Web Services.

• Support MySQL, DB2, and other popular databases, in addition to Oracle and SQL-Server.

• Allow user to create concept-based vocabularies, enabling concepts to be used as the building blocks for the creation of business-driven terminology structures (taxonomies, thesauri, etc.).

• Enable user to work on two or more vocabularies at the same time establishing relationships among concepts within or across vocabularies. 

• Handle very large vocabularies that can be both hierarchies and alphabetical listings.

• Support micro-thesauri.

• New and Improved Multi-lingual Support

• Incorporate complete multi-lingual support via UNICODE enabling the storage and handling of vocabulary data in any language.  Allow users to compare two or more vocabularies in different languages simultaneously.  As a result, corporations can create a thesaurus in multiple languages and then regional branches can use the thesaurus in a language appropriate to them by simply selecting the desired language. 

• Complete and sophisticated localization support, allowing the user to customize the user interface in any language, including screen labels and text, system messages, and context-sensitive tips.

• New and Improved Editing

• User-definable data entry and editing with two editing templates supported, current tabbed format and one page format with collapsible sections and suppressible data elements. 

• Enable two or more vocabularies to be merged.  Two or more descriptors can also be merged. 

• Create custom rules for editing, validations and other actions.

• Move descriptors/branches using drag and drop.

• Values such as Term Source can be added to multiple descriptors after first selecting multiple descriptors. 

• Enable references and relationships not just at the concept level but also at term level.

• Allow associative relationships (RT) to have different type labels depending on the direction.

• New and Improved Viewing, Browsing and Searching

• User-generation of a special display to be placed in Tree Display Area such as UF display, Descriptors with RTs (Categories, Translations, URLs, etc.) to make it easy for the editor to manage and edit descriptors. 

• Improved view of descriptor details with options for emailing, saving, and printing.

• Hyperlink to broader terms up to the top of the hierarchy in the Node Detail Area (NDA).

• Support Long labels for user-defined notes and relations

• Allow the user to order individual user-defined notes and relations, along with pre-defined data elements.

• Allow the user to define a group that may contain user notes and user relations.

• Comprehensive search that allows the user to search just about anything.  An option is provided for the user to specify searchable fields, including user notes and user relations. 

• Support Boolean, wide card, and exact searches.

• New and Improved  Report, Import, and Export

• User-definable reporter is now included in addition to pre-defined standard and custom reports.

• User-definable importer and exporter in addition to pre-defined import templates and wizards.

• Improved Web Thesaurus Navigator now supports two templates for vocabulary publishing and browsing on the Web.

• New and Improved Security and Work Flow

• Include user-defined security and permissions. 

• Keep track of the complete transaction process from adding a descriptor to approval.

• Improved transaction log viewer. 

• Automatic Generation of Vocabulary Candidate Terms

• Create a temporary thesaurus or taxonomy by scanning or scrawling information sources such as database records, HTML/XML pages, MS Office documents, etc.  ConceptChoir can refine the vocabulary and establish term relationships automatically if relevant standard and specialized dictionaries and thesauri are available.

• If desired, users can manually refine vocabularies using ConceptChoir editing capabilities. ConceptChoir provides a variety of editing capabilities for refining vocabularies created automatically.

• New and Improved Integration

• New, tighter integration with other WebChoir products such as LinkChoir and MetaChoir via standard APIs such as Web Services and Javascripts is incorporated. 

• Also, Flexible integration with external Web-based applications via standard APIs such as Web Services and Javascripts is now available. 

• New and Improved Documentation and Online Help

• Online help now includes an index and full text search capability so that the user can quickly find information about a topic like Delete Hierarchy or Import ASCII.

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