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22.10.2004 | Folie 1
WS Umweltdatenbanken 2005 Hannover
A software system to manage and maintain multilingual
thesauri
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Construction, Maintenance and Visualisation of Multilingual Thesauri
“SuperThes” SuperThes Web Visualizer
Wolf-Dieter BatschiRudolf LegatPaolo Plini
Hermann Stallbaumer
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The Team
Memorandum of Understanding(2000)
UBA BerlinUBA Berlin
TBHSTBHS
CNR RomeCNR Rome
SuperThesSuperThes
UBA ViennaUBA Vienna
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1. Contemporary thesaurus data are targeted towards a world-wide audience requiring Unicode capabilities
2. Thesaurus constructors demand flexible thesaurus structures, the freedom to create thesauri from scratch, using various data types and tables
3. Convenient data exchange with standard office applications using state-of-the-art technologies like drag and drop
4. Data storage based on proven client server technology
5. Powerful report generator
6. Bulk data extraction using either standard file formats or XML
Requirements
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Language Definition
SuperThes is Unicode compliant and stores all data in UCS-2 formats
All languages defined in ISO 639-1 are pre-defined
The availability of a particular language depends on the host systems capabilities like installed fonts, input method editors and right to left facilities
Contemporary thesaurus data are targeted towards a worldwide audience requiring true Unicode capabilities
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Origins:
THESmain was created 1995 due to the lack of commercial software with sufficient multilingual capabilities
Design goals were:
• Separation of tasks “thesaurus maintenance” and “thesaurus visualisation”
• Graphical user interface
• Compliance to DIN 1462 /ISO 2788 and DIN /ISO 5964
• Must cover all spoken European languages
• Data storage in standard database format
• Standardized data exchange via SGML
Wide spread use: UDK-Thesaurus, GEMET, ENVOC, AWG, Forstglossar, Scandinavian Health Thesaurus, Ethik-Thesaurus
SuperThes background: THESmain
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Thesaurus DefinitionThesaurus constructors demand flexible thesaurus structures (freedom to create thesaurus fields, data types, relations, additional tables, due to the properties of the supplied data and design goals of the thesaurus)
Thesauri consisting of several table may be constructed from scratch using the table definition editor
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A rich graphical user interface with drag and drop features and context menus allow quick and efficient data handling
Ease of Use
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Text Editors
Powerful word processor plug-in
supports tables and imagesreads and writes RTF and HTML formats reads and writes MS Words documents
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Multimedia Editors
Multimedia editors for sounds and images:
• Supports various file formats (jpg, bmp, ico, emf, wmf)
• Data exchange with other applications via files, clipboard and drag and drop
SuperThes supports a wide range of additional data types:
• boolean, date, time, decimal, list, memo, numeric and scientific
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Database TechnologiesSuperThes relies on robust client server technology
For small installations, client and server may reside on the same computer
For those who do not want to learn the native database management environment, a comprehensive maintenance and backup utility is included
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SuperThes Web Visualizer
Current developments:The present work programme comprises a web based tool called SuperThesWeb which allows to access SuperThes databases via Internet. Main goal for the design of the software development is to assure the convenience of the user interface of the MS Windows-based application. SuperThesWeb is designed platform independent, based on Apache / Tomcat.
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SuperThes Web Visualizer
Forderungen an Visualisierungsmodul zu SuperThes:
Anforderung unterschiedlich zu Standard Web Anwendung
• Nicht der Entwickler, sondern der SuperThes Anwender bestimmt den Aufbau des Thesaurus.
• Das Visualierungsmodul muss daher:
•Sich an unterschiedliche Datenbankstrukturen anpassen können
•Einfach bzw. automatisch konfigurierbar sein.
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SuperThes Web Visualizer
Entwurfsziele:
• Systemunabhängigkeit
• Normenkonformität
• Einsatz erprobter Technologien
• Einfach bzw. automatisch konfigurierbar sein.
• Kombination mehrerer Technologien
• Muss von Nicht-Programmieren angewendet werden können
Es muss eine Art selbstkonfigurierender Baukasten sein
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SuperThes Web Visualizer
Verwendete Technologien:
Wichtig! Muss auf Windows- und Unix Rechnern lauffähig sein.
• XHTML 1.0
• Java Server Pages
• Java Applets
• Java Script
• Firebird 1.5 (Datenbank)
• Lauffähig auf Standard Servlet Containern, etwa Tomcat 5.5
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SuperThes Web VisualizerKonfigurations Seite
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SuperThes Web VisualizerDarstellungsseite
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The Team
Wolf-Dieter BatschiUmweltbundesamt Berlin, Bismarckplatz 1, D-14193 Berlin, email: [email protected], Internet: www.umweltbundesamt.de
Rudolf LegatUmweltbundesamt Wien, Spittelauer Lände 5, A-1090 Wienemail: [email protected], Internet: udk.ubavie.gv.at
Paolo PliniCNR – Institute for Athmospheric Pollution – Environmental Terminology UnitVia Salaria Km 29,300 – CP 10, I-00016 Monterotondo Stazione, Rome - Italy,email: [email protected],Internet: uta.iia.cnr.it/, www.t-reks.cnr.it
Hermann StallbaumerFa. TBHS, Favoritenstraße 182, A-1100 Wien, email: [email protected]