DESIRE Toolkit Components
2.4 DESIRE Vocabulary Database
2.5 DESIRE Vocabulary Browser
2.6 DESIRE Vocabulary Browser for Z39.50
Description
As searching for information on the Internet becomes more reliant upon
structured meta-information, there will be a need for new types of tools
for interfacing between controlled vocabularies (such as terms lists,
classification systems and thesauri) and HTML forms in applications such as
metadata creators and search engines. The DVT (DESIRE Vocabulary Toolkit)
is such a tool. The vocabulary database tools allow the construction and
manipulation of databases of specialist vocabularies which can then be used
to facilitate browsing in user interfaces to search services. The
vocabulary browser tools allow interaction between a search interface and a
vocabulary database constructed with the DESIRE vocabulary database tools,
and consist of two parts:
an end-user tool for browsing a vocabulary and interfacing it with
HTML forms
a Z39.50 "harvesting robot" which searches multiple databases and
creates a hierarchical browsing structure while traversing a vocabulary
database
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