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Agrovoc Maintenance Interface

Margherita Sini – GILW

May 2003

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Thesaurus Maintenance Tool• It is an interface for managing a “working copy”

of the AGROVOC thesaurus

• For GILW to internal maintenance of AGROVOC

• Possible use on related countries for editing specific languages (standalone or on-line version)

• The DB (when validated) will be reflected over the on-line version, ftp version, CDROM version, etc.

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Elements

• Server Side– Web Server: apache– Database: mysql– Web Interface: PHP

• Client side– Browser

workingDatabase(mysql)

EDITInterface

(php)

SERVER

CLIENT

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PHP Interface

• Freeware, Platform Independent

• Dynamic access to MySQL database with a direct connection (no odbc jdbc)

• Easy managed and easy integration with other tools / web systems

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MySQL Database

• Freeware, Platform Independent• Free window-based tools to manage

the database• Data can be managed with MS Access• Table definition and data import in

batch mode

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The Agrovoc Interface

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Functionalities (1)

• Search• Add new terms (EN, FR, DE, IT, ….)• Edit/Add terms labels (EN, FR, DE, IT, ….)• Delete terms (Mark as deleted)• Edit relationships between terms• Edit descriptions (scope note, comments,

history, etc)

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Functionalities (2)

• Export to TagText, RDF, others (?) – ongoing

• Domain specific terms – ongoing

• Help page

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FilesOn-line

database(oracle)

“CD ROM”database(cds isis)

workingDatabase(mysql)

CD ROMInterface(webisis)

On-lineInterface

(asp)

EDITInterface

(php)

VALIDATION SUBJECT EXPERTS

DataWork Flow

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Home Page

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Search

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Show info

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Edit languages labels

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Edit relationships (1)

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Edit Relationship

(2)

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Edit Term Descriptions

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Add a new term

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Delete Terms (Mark as)

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Domain Specific Terms

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Export

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MySQL Interface

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Improvements (1)

• More testing… and make more robust

• Help on-line and project documentation

• Multilingual Interface

• Improve connection performances

• Controlled access (Login/Password): limit access to modify functions

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Improvements (2)

• Full implementation Arabic / Chinese

• Additional functions:– Domain specific terms excluding species, geograph.

and chemical terms– Connection to additional domain-specific lists– “Do you mean…” in case of 0 results

• Create a standalone version (CD ROM)

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Working plan

• Conversion ms access database to mysql: 1 day (todo 0.5 day)

• Development of the interface: 20 days (todo 5 days)

• Testing: 1 week (never ending…)

• Move to a server: (todo 1 day)

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References

• http://www.mysql.com

• http://www.php.net/