© F. Dell'Orso, Bibliography Formatting Software: An Evaluation Template
Last update: May, 6, 2004


 4.8. Thesaurus

Thesaurus

Biblioscape Bookends
Biblioscape: no, but folders and notes can be organized in hierarchical way; records (not entires) can be linked via different links  Bookends: no

1 Link types: BT/NT; NTG/BTG; RT; USE/UF; TT/NT;

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.              

2 Links are automatically bidirectional

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

3 Links can be edited (i.e. change without detaching entries)

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

4 Can create kw while making links

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

5 Links are validated and controlled, e.g.:
-- a Narrower Term (sub-) cannot also be Broader Term (super-) of its Broader Term
-- a rejected term (Used for) cannot be used
-- no term can refer to itself

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

6 SN Scope notes

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

7 Multilingual links codes

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

8 Can import list of unlinked/linked entries

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

9 List is relationally linked to database records

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

10 List can be used from records during input

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

11 List can be used during search:
  1. browsing
  2. navigation
  3. direct search
  4. list itself can be searched

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

12 Output
  1. screen preview 2. printout

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

13 Output layout
  1. alphabetic with links and their codes
  2. systematic with alphabetically listed subentries
  3. permuted: KWIC, KWOC ...
  4. hierarchical (TT + alphabetic list; TT + hierarchical list; TT only)

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

14 Statistics

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.

15 Other, e.g.: provisions for candidate descriptors, identifiers, polihierarchy ...

Biblioscape: n.a. Bookends: n.a.



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