MultiTes Pro
Technologically revamped in 2005, this edition adds many features that will enable
thesaurus builders increase their productivity, and make thesaurus construction easier
than ever. Users of older versions can see a list of
new features.
This edition is targeted at the individual thesaurus builder, or a local group of thesaurus
builders in a company or institution. Provides a more flexible and faster user interface.
A fully functional trial version is available for download.
Features include:
- Support for ANSI/NISO standard relationships (USE: Use Preferred Term, UF: Used for, BT: Broader Term, NT: Narrower Term, RT: Related Term, SN: Scope Note), as well as user-defined relationships, classifications, languages and note/comment fields
- Support for polyhierarchical thesauri (i.e. multiple BT's)
- Support for multilingual thesauri. This includes handling of foreign characters (diacritical marks) according to your locale.
- Validation of conflicting relationships
- Automatic generation of reciprocal relationships
- Number of terms, relationships, categories and hierarchies limited only by computer's configuration
- Complete hierarchy display, limited only by your computer's configuration.
- Theme support for a more personalized look and feel
- 32-bit application architecture makes better use of features in the latest environments such as XP.
- Quick Data Entry saves you time by typing terms and relationships in free text mode.
- Copy/Paste options to add terms and relationships to/from the clipboard.
- Work on multiple thesauri simultaneously on the same computer. Along with the Copy/Paste/clipboard options, you can now copy terms and relationships from one thesaurus and paste them into another.
- Context sensitive menus for quick access to common functions like Display Term Record, Edit, Flag, Delete, Add Relationships, and more.
- Access to search engines directly from term record display.
- Output to HTML creates a web site of your thesaurus. Options allow customization of the look and feel using a single template (editable by industry-standard HTML authoring tools), and by taking advantange of CSS coded entries in the output.
- Term flagging lets you assign different flags to different terms, and also a quick search by flag.
- Category/Classification (Microthesauri) management makes it easy to browse terms by category/microthesaurus.
- Quick access to "Recently opened terms" option.
- Advanced search option allows searches by string in term, note content, categories, flags, status and type.
- SQL based thesaurus engine
- Single file database (one per thesaurus) simplifies portability, backups and management.
- Non-postable terms appear in Italics (customizable to 'normal' for readability).
- Improved reporting features include a common interface for all reports in a wizard-like environment.
- Enhanced Alphabetical report, allows you to select which items to display.
- Multi-user support (simultaneous access thru a LAN)
- Reports include Alphabetical, TopTerm, Hierarchical, Classified & Rotated Index, plus a Report generator to create your own reports.
- Output to XML, creates a fully-featured XML file from your thesaurus, suitable for use to interact/interop with other systems.
- Import terms, relationships, or fully-featured thesauri from text files or from clipboard
System Requirements
- Windows 2000, XP or better
- Recommended RAM memory for your system
- 3MB of disk space for application and online help files
- An estimated 15 MB of disk space for every 50,000 terms
