Lexaurus Editor
Lexaurus Editor helps you create and edit term or concept based vocabularies, concept schemes, ontologies, data definitions, taxonomies and thesauri. It is a desktop program that is quick and easy to use.
Lexaurus Editor can automatically publish to and synchronise with one or more Lexaurus Banks. It allows hierarchical and poly-hierarchical structures to be edited. Multiple vocabularies can be loaded simultaneously to allow for term reuse and mappings between structures. It is format independent and currently supports SKOS, VDEX, XVD, ESD Toolkit and Zthes natively. Stylesheets can be applied on export so the output can be customised to your format requirements.
Lexaurus Editor is widely used in the UK, Europe, USA and Canada by taxonomy experts, information management specialists and non-specialists.
Lexaurus Editor: key features
- Easy to use The editing interface can be used for developing all forms of terminology structures, including poly-hierarchical taxonomies, faceted thesauri and ontologies.
- Multilingual Lexaurus can create and edit multilingual structures. Any text value can be translated independently.
- Customisable schemas The metadata used to describe structures and terms or concepts is entirely configurable and schema-driven. This allows the creation of custom properties and data types. For example to support multiple facets, custom note fields, custom part numbers or repeating properties.
- Customisable relationships As well as all common thesaural relationships users can define their own relationship types and item types.
- Format independent Lexaurus Editor supports both concept and term-based formats. Implementing a different format is simply a case of writing a custom plug-in. Hence Lexaurus provides conversion between many standard formats. Please ask about support of your format of choice.
- Drag and drop for quick, simple modification of hierarchies, re-use of different terminology sets and mapping between vocabularies.
- Customisable reporting Custom reporting including property names, langauge, content and styling is supported
Added in version 4.5
- Synchronising with remote Bank(s) for distributed terminology management and team editing
- Tracking of remote and local changes to facilitate change merging for team development
- Publish directly to remote Bank(s)
- Full history including specific edit operations and rollback to any point (equivalent to ‘n level undo’)
- Searching
- Build vocabularies using drag and drop from search results
- Edit direct from search results
- Wildcard searches producing alphabetical vocabulary content lists
- Search within a specific vocabulary from context menu
- Right to left text rendering when required for language display (e.g. Arabic and Hebrew text rendering)
- SKOS import and export
- Translation support
- Export of translation forms as Excel to allow translations to be completed by translators
- Import of an Excel translation form to add translations to a vocabulary directly
- Sorting based on a sort key
