1. 22-04-03Page 1 Agrovoc Maintenance Interface Margherita Sini – GILW May 2003

2. 22-04-03Page 2 Thesaurus Maintenance Tool It is an interface for managing a “working copy” of the AGROVOC thesaurus For GILW to internal maintenance of AGROVOC Possible use on related countries for editing specific languages (standalone or on-line version) The DB (when validated) will be reflected over the on-line version, ftp version, CDROM version, etc.

3. 22-04-03Page 3 Elements Server Side –Web Server: apache –Database: mysql –Web Interface: PHP Client side –Browser working Database (mysql) EDIT Interface (php) SERVER CLIENT

4. 22-04-03Page 4 PHP Interface Freeware, Platform Independent Dynamic access to MySQL database with a direct connection (no odbc jdbc) Easy managed and easy integration with other tools / web systems

5. 22-04-03Page 5 MySQL Database Freeware, Platform Independent Free window-based tools to manage the database Data can be managed with MS Access Table definition and data import in batch mode

6. 22-04-03Page 6 The Agrovoc Interface

7. 22-04-03Page 7 Functionalities (1) Search Add new terms (EN, FR, DE, IT, ….) Edit/Add terms labels (EN, FR, DE, IT, ….) Delete terms (Mark as deleted) Edit relationships between terms Edit descriptions (scope note, comments, history, etc)

8. 22-04-03Page 8 Functionalities (2) Export to TagText, RDF, others (?) – ongoing Domain specific terms – ongoing Help page

9. 22-04-03Page 9 Files On-line database (oracle) “CD ROM” database (cds isis) working Database (mysql) CD ROM Interface (webisis) On-line Interface (asp) EDIT Interface (php) VALIDATION SUBJECT EXPERTS Data Work Flow

10. 22-04-03Page 10 Home Page

11. 22-04-03Page 11 Search

12. 22-04-03Page 12 Show info

13. 22-04-03Page 13 Edit languages labels

14. 22-04-03Page 14 Edit relationships (1)

15. 22-04-03Page 15 Edit Relationship (2)

16. 22-04-03Page 16 Edit Term Descriptions

17. 22-04-03Page 17 Add a new term

18. 22-04-03Page 18 Delete Terms (Mark as)

19. 22-04-03Page 19 Domain Specific Terms

20. 22-04-03Page 20 Export

21. 22-04-03Page 21 MySQL Interface

22. 22-04-03Page 22 Improvements (1) More testing… and make more robust Help on-line and project documentation Multilingual Interface Improve connection performances Controlled access (Login/Password): limit access to modify functions

23. 22-04-03Page 23 Improvements (2) Full implementation Arabic / Chinese Additional functions: –Domain specific terms excluding species, geograph. and chemical terms –Connection to additional domain-specific lists – “Do you mean…” in case of 0 results Create a standalone version (CD ROM)

24. 22-04-03Page 24 Working plan Conversion ms access database to mysql: 1 day (todo 0.5 day) Development of the interface: 20 days (todo 5 days) Testing: 1 week (never ending…) Move to a server: (todo 1 day)

25. 22-04-03Page 25 References http://www.mysql.com http://www.php.net/