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What is SeekChoir? |
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SeekChoir is a robust, full-featured retrieval system that enables users to browse and navigate hierarchies, allowing the searcher many ways to investigate and employ related and synonymous topics and concepts while searching. SeekChoir supports vocabulary-enhanced keyword searches within database records. But, if LinkChoir has been employed to index database records using thesauri constructed in TermChoir or some other thesaurus builder programs, SeekChoir also supports a controlled vocabulary search of those records indexed with descriptors from the associated thesaurus. |
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What is required to run SeekChoir? |
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SeekChoir requires only a Web server and a browser. Since it is completely based on XML, it doesn't even require a DBMS to store your thesaurus data. It is truly open allowing the use of any operating system, any Web server, and any client. |
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Does SeekChoir support multiple thesauri?
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Yes, you can incorporate as many thesauri as you desire into SeekChoir for viewing and searching. |
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Can I use SeekChoir without other WebChoir products?
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Yes, but you will need ConceptChoir or TranChoir to produce, from the interested thesauri, XML documents that are designed and optimized for ViewChoir, LinkChoir, and SeekChoir.. |
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If I update my thesaurus using ConceptChoir, how difficult is it to post my new, revised thesaurus via SeekChoir? |
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| You just need to use ConceptChoir or TranChoir to generate XML documents again and replace the previous version. |
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Do users have to install SeekChoir on their local machines in order to use it? |
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| No, users just need to have an Internet browser such as IE or Netscape on their local machines, since SeekChoir is completely Web-based. |
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What types of databases can I link to? |
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SeekChoir supports most relational databases that support JDBC or ODBC, including Oracle, DB2, SQL-Server, and MySQL. |
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How does SeekChoir differ from retrieval systems that already incorporate thesauri into their search functions and capabilities?
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Among many others, SeekChoir offers two unique features that set SeekChoir apart from others. First, it allows you to search for information by browsing your thesaurus in an expandable/collapsible hierarchy so that you can easily perform broaden or narrowed searches. Second, it allows you to search either controlled vocabularies, free-text, or the combination of controlled vocabularies and free-text. Please see SeekChoir white paper for details.. |
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Can I just use SeekChoir, or do I need the other products for it to be effective? |
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You can just use SeekChoir for keyword or enhanced keyword searching. However, if you have used LinkChoir to index your databases using thesauri, you can use SeekChoir to search the combination of controlled vocabularies and free-text that can greatly improve your searching. Please see SeekChoir white paper for details. |
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How difficult is it to integrate SeekChoir with my databases? |
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SeekChoir permits you to connect and configure any ODBC and JDBC databases without any programming and without any investment in additional hardware and software for SeekChoir. And all you need to do is to connect and configure your databases using SeekChoir Database Configuration Wizard and to integrate thesauri, if any, into SeekChoir using TranChoir. That means if you have a need to find information from an ODBC or JDBC database, you can have a fully featured retrieval system for your database up and running in a matter of few days without writing a single line of code. Normally, it would take only a few hours to connect and configure a database using the SeekChoir Database Configuration Wizard, depending on the size of the database. Please see SeekChoir white paper for details. |
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