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What is LinkChoir? |
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LinkChoir
provides a perfect solution to the most significant
shortcoming of traditional thesaurus construction
systems - the lack of integration of thesaurus terms
with information sources that need to be indexed by the
thesaurus. It is fairly common for corporations to
spend hundreds of thousands of dollars building a
thesaurus, but be unable to use it effectively because
of the difficulty in integrating the thesaurus with
external information sources. LinkChoir is the crucial
tool that allows other applications to globally access
and use thesaurus descriptors to index the database
records in these applications, providing the only answer
to this persistent problem. |
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What is required to run LinkChoir? |
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LinkChoir comes in two versions. One is Web-based,
allowing integration with any Web-based applications,
and the other is based on a Windows API, enabling
integration with any Windows client. The Web-based
version requires only a Web server and a browser. The
Windows API version works with any Windows client that
supports a Windows API. Since both versions work with
XML, they don't even require a DBMS to store your
thesaurus data, if you choose XML as your data storage
format. |
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Does LinkChoir
support multiple thesauri? |
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Yes, you can incorporate as many thesauri as you desire
into LinkChoir for viewing and indexing. |
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Can I use
LinkChoir
without other WebChoir products?
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Yes, but you will need
ConceptChoir or
TranChoir
to produce, from the interested thesauri, XML documents
that are designed and optimized for ViewChoir,
LinkChoir, and SeekChoir.. |
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If I update my thesaurus using ConceptChoir, how
difficult is it to post my new, revised thesaurus via
LinkChoir?
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| You just need to use ConceptChoir or TranChoir to generate XML documents again and replace the previous version. |
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Do users have to install
LinkChoir
on their local machines in order to use it? |
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No, users just need to have an Internet
browser such as IE or Netscape on their
local machines, since LinkChoir is
completely Web-based. |
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What programming is required to use LinkChoir?
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Web-based LinkChoir requires only Web Service API or
JavaScript for integration and manipulation of the
returned values from thesauri. Click
here to see the required and sample JavaScripts for
integrating LinkChoir. The Windows API LinkChoir works
with most programming languages that support a Windows
API including VB, C++, and Delphi. |
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What types of databases can I link to? |
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LinkChoir supports most relational databases that
support JDBC or ODBC, including Oracle, DB2, SQL-Server,
and MySQL. |
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If I have published a new version of my thesaurus,
can LinkChoir automatically and globally update my
users' records according to all the changes made in my
new thesaurus?
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Yes, LinkChoir updates, automatically and globally,
descriptors that have been used in indexing. |
