Transcript Online Concept Database

Scriptum ConceptStore
Gábor Uhrin
Scriptum Informatics Inc.
[email protected]
www.scriptum.hu
Project Goals

To provide a platform for interactive
maintenance of concept and term definitions
belonging to specific scientific, industrial, etc.
areas - involving the community of specialists
working in those areas - over the Internet.
 Be open to integration with other systems.
 The Scriptum ConceptStore is integrated in the
KIKERES project aiming to provide a concept
database for public administration terms.
Concept Store Terminology 1.
CONCEPT
A concept is independent from languages.
The determination of a concept is carried out
jointly by its word form, definition and
relations.
DEFINITION
The core element.
A language independent category.
Concept Store Terminology 2.
WORD FORM

representative
 used format
HIERARCHICAL RELTAIONS

e.g. main concept - sub concept
NONHIERARCHICAL RELATIONS

e.g. full - portion
CONCEPT CATEGORY

main category - subcategory
Potential Capabilities
Working forum for concept editors
 Harmonizing of different concept
stores
 Connection to collaterally developed
query systems
 Connection to classical thesauri

Integration with KIKERES
Client
KIKERES
A
Query service
KIKERES
databases
Metadata input
B C
Concept
database
Online Concept Database
Query service
Description

Hosted by a server on Internet that provides:
– querying and browsing definitions of terms
along with relations that exist between them
for both human users and other systems that
access the database programmatically,
– an editing interface that authorized specialists
(editors) use to build the database,
– forums editors use to communicate with each
other (mailing lists, database annotations)
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Editing Facility Key Features
 Secure
environment
 Teamwork support
 Multi-language support
 Version control
Secure Environment

All editors must be authorized before accessing
the database
 They work remotely using the HTML interface
exposed by the concept database WWW server.
The secure https protocol is used to encrypt
the transmissions.
 All changes to the database are strictly logged
(who and when did the modifications).
 No user can overwrite other’s work, and cannot
view other’s data that are classified as private.
Teamwork Support

An editorial role-system can be assigned
providing ideal conditions for team work.
Editors are provided with a mailing list to
exchange thoughts.
 All editors can append annotations and
examples to a concept’s definition regardless
of who originally created the definition.
 The system prevents the editors from changing
other editor’s work.
Multi-Language Support

Concepts can be defined in any number of
languages simultaneously (provided that
the definitions are otherwise equal).
 User interface is multilingual.
 Languages are symmetric - they are all
treated equally; no language is
emphasized.
Version Control

At either regular periods of time or casually,
the master editor can choose to provide
new definitions of terms (taking into
account the annotations other editors have
appended to the existing definitions), thus
creating a new version of the definitions.
 Older versions remain in the database and
are continually accessible, making it
possible to track how a definition evolved
over time.
Concept Definition Architecture
Current version
English
Hungarian
Definition
Definition
Annotations
Examples
Older version
Definition
Annotations
Examples
Annotations
Examples
Definition
Annotations
Examples
Technology
Storage:
POET object oriented data base management
Human user interface:
HTML-based Web Application
Programmatic interface:
XML-encoded http communication between the
server and its client.
Standards Applied
Storage and Search:
ODBMS (POET 6.1), XML
Communication
HTTP
Terminology
ISO 1087:1990
ISO 704:1984
ISO 860:1996
QUESTIONS, REMARKS