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Tematres 1.4

We have the glad to invite to test the beta version of Tematres 1.4

TemaTres is a web tool to manage, publish and exploit controlled vocabularies and other formals representation of knowledge (thesauri, taxonomies, glossaries, etc).

This release includes the following fixes and improvements:

Quality indicators about controlled vocabularies The Quality assurance was improved with reports about the following quality indicators:
Free Terms
Terms without hierarchical relationships
Average number of words per term
Terms per N Broader terms
Terms per N narrower terms and depth
Terms words with not supported prefixes or suffixes

For more details: MARTÍNEZ, A.M.a et al. Concepto, forma y longitud de los términos preferentes del tesauro: una propuesta de indicadores de calidad. Anales de Documentación, 2010, vol. 13, p. 185-195. http://revistas.um.es/analesdoc/article/view/107151

MARTÍNEZ, A.M.a et al. Indicadores para evaluar el vocabulario y la estructura sistemática de un tesauro. I Jornada de Intercambio y Reflexión acerca de la Investigación en Bibliotecología, La Plata, 6-7 de diciembre de 2010. Facultad de Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación de la Universidad Nacional de La Plata. http://www.jornadabibliotecologia.fahce.unlp.edu.ar/jornada-2010/martine

User-defined notes
Has been added management capabilities to manage and create user-defined notes. (Thanks to Observatorio Estatal de la Discapacidad Spain: http://www.observatoriodeladiscapacidad.es/)
Advanced configuration options
Has been added detailed configuration options available to the administrator of the controlled vocabulary.
Import controlled vocabularies
Now TemaTres can import controlled vocabulary from plain tagged text.

For example:

IMS VDEX Scheme (Vocabulary Definition and Exchange) Now with TemaTres you can Display, export and publish terms and controlled vocabularies through VDEX IMS XML schema (Vocabulary Definition and Exchange). http://www.imsglobal.org/vdex/
Controlled vocabularies RESTful Services TemaTres have support for web services accessible through a clear and simple syntax. The service support a wide variety of queries and data can be viewed in XML, JSON or SKOS-Core.

Examples
Status:
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/en/api/

Terms beginning with the letter B:
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/en/api/letter/b
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/en/api/letter/b/skos
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/en/api/letter/b/json

Search Terms:
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/en/api/search/fish/
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/en/api/search/fish/json
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/en/api/search/fish/skos

Vocabulary Data
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/pt/api/fetchVocabularyData

Top of vocabulary terms
http://www.vocabularyserver.com/gemet/pt/api/fetchTopTerm

Minor bugs was solved and was added some minor features

Seen on the Code4Lib email.

- Oclc Terminology Services
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- Guidelines For The Construction, Format, And Management Of Monolingual Controlled Vocabularies
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- Ims Vocabulary Definition Exchange
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- Controlled Vocabularies
Controlled Vocabularies: A Glosso-Thesaurus by Karl Fast, Fred Leise and Mike Steckel is available on Boxes and Arrows.The glossary reflects our usage of terms in the articles of this series. But this glossary is more than just a list of terms. We wanted...

- Cc:da
The Committee on Cataloging: Description and Access is discussing the use of conventional terms as SMD's in formats other than electronic resources. This would be a major change, I think for the better. However, they need to hear from you. Let them...

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