[metadataLibrarians] Thesaurus software

[JJ Jacobson]

It looks quite promising -- thank you!

William Denton wrote:

>On 19 January 2006, JJ Jacobson wrote:
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>>I'm about to start shopping for thesaurus-building/taxonomy-wrangling
>>software. Does anybody have and recommendations to make, or horror
>>stories to relate, abut particular vendors/packages?
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>I used Term Tree [1] to build a thesaurus with 2,700 terms.  I tried out
>five or six others, and it was the best.  The Term Tree people were very 
>helpful and would reply overnight (they're on the other side of the world 
>to me) with a good answer, and once with a new binary when I reported a 
>bug.
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>It's not perfect.  The program itself has a rather ugly interface and it 
>can be slow to page up and down the list of terms.  I couldn't make it 
>print an alphabetical display in a small two-column format--it only wanted 
>to do it in a big way with lots of whitespace--but I whipped up a Perl 
>script to do it for me.  Also, it's a one-person program: if you want two 
>people to use it, you need to buy two licenses, and if you use it at the 
>same time there could be conflicts.
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>Nevertheless, it's a reliable program and anyone can learn to use it 
>quickly.  We had no trouble with it.  I recommend it.  You can download a 
>demo for free, too.
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>Bill
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>[1] http://www.termtree.com.au/
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JJ Jacobson
Catalog & Metadata Librarian
Georgia Institute of Technology
Library and Information Center
Atlanta, GA 30332-0900
404-894-4537
jacqueline.jacobson at library.gatech.edu