Lexaurus Bank
Lexaurus Bank version 4.5 was released in October 2010. It is a powerful terminology management system for publishing term or concept based vocabularies, concept schemes, data definitions, taxonomies and thesauri.
It facilitates the import, export and cross-mapping of terminology structures in a variety of formats currently supporting SKOS, VDEX, XVD, ESD Toolkit and Zthes.
Lexaurus Bank can also synchronise with one or more Lexaurus Editors to provide collaborative editing of terminology information, including multiple users working on the same structure.
It is completely multilingual both in terms of the data it contains and the user interface for the application.
Unlike most terminology systems currently available, Lexaurus Bank maintains a full and complete history of all terms, concepts and terminology structures. This is not simply an audit trail which some systems attempt, but provides API level access to every terminology structure at every stage in its development, together with when and who made each change.
This information is available as both a complete terminology structure for each change, or as a delta which just exposes the differences between any 2 revisions (not just the last changes).
Lexaurus Bank has been tested to a level of 10 million terms or concepts.
Lexaurus Bank key features:
- Scalable web-based repository for multiple published vocabularies to be consolidated and disseminated, organisation or sector-wide.
- Customisable multilingual web interface provides advanced search, filter and browse options.
- Collaborative creation, editing and mapping of terminologies across distributed environments.
- Import and export using a range of standard formats.
- Extensible descriptive schemas, facilitating customised term, concept and thesaural descriptions with full support for multilingual definitions.
- Standards-based RESTful interface integrates with other information-centric solutions, enabling dynamic terminology updates.
- Rapid synchronisation of classification changes across all consumers of vocabulary data (e.g. end user navigation, system database indexes, search queries etc.) including differences (deltas) between versions.
- RSS feeds to notify you of updates Terminology uniqueness ensured by persistent http uris for all content.
- Full revision management covering all aspects of terminology lifecycle.
- Extensive administrative control over users and organisations.
- Granular permissions and roles allowing role-based access down to individual vocabulary level and separate permissions for delete, update and create.
Some new features in version 4.5
- Sort key ordering for NT/TT at any level
- Vocabulary and authority level permissions for granular permission and role management for delete, update and add
- User permissions management interface
- Faceting filtering on any property such as publisher, this can be configured
- Very fast search (SOLR-based with auto completion)
- Display for non-Latin right to left display languages
- Calls to allow the Bank to be synchronised with Lexaurus Editors for merge, publish and delta synchronisation
- Improved caching for faster download and browse
- Ability to upload multiple or single vocabularies in zipped format to reduce bandwidth requirements
