SYNAPTICA FEATURES
Some of the newest features you will find in Synaptica include:
- "Rapid-fire" interface to allow the sequential addition of new terms. This new design stores term details and keeps a running list of new terms that are added in order to provide quick access to details such as relationships and term status.
- Informational summary window on term lists provides a quick summary of term information and relationships without requiring the user to view the Item Summary screen.
- Improved global term editing based on term relationships allows users to not only filter reports and global editing results by term relationships, but also to change relationship types through a new global editing feature.
Drag-and-drop hierarchical relationship building allows for the creation of or change to vocabulary hierarchies via a unique, java-enhanced interface. Simply click and drag a term or hierarchical branch to move or copy to a new location or even an alternate vocabulary.
Synaptica's unparalleled set of features have evolved to meet the uncompromising demands of taxonomy and authority file experts and includes:
- Manage glossaries, dictionaries, lexicons, taxonomies, thesauri, ontologies and name authority files
- Supports ANSI/NISO Z39.19; ISO 2788 & ISO 5964
- Simple search or power search modes
- Standard hierarchical, associative and equivalency relationships
- Customizable semantic relationship types and behavior rules
- Meta vocabulary clusters and crosswalk mapping
- Multiple categories for a single term
- Expandable hierarchies and relationships
- Approval & candidate term statuses
- Customizable data entry templates and rules
- Dynamically enforced rules-based logic
- Collaborative and compartmentalized portals
- Role-based granular permissions
- Robust scalable enterprise-class architecture
- Web-GUI for intranet/extranet deployment
- DBMS deployment on Oracle and SQL Server
- COM and Database APIs for systems integration
- Logical delete and restore of terms
- User ID and date-time stamping
- Online reports using report wizards
- Bulk import and validation functions
- Various export formats including Microsoft Word and Excel, XML,CSV,RDF and OWL
- Unicode UTF-8 support for non-western character sets
Web-based User Interface
The entire Synaptica application has a web-based user interface enabling access by location independent knowledge workers. A "portal" system allows project teams to access subsets of the vocabularies with user functional privileges controlled by 12 permissions levels from read-only through super-administrator. A suite of online report wizards allows users to create alphabetical and hierarchical reports as well as various export formats including Microsoft Word and Excel, XML, CSV, RDF and OWL
On-the-fly Customization
Another of Synaptica’s strengths is the ability to customize the system in minutes. An extensive menu of administrators’ tools, all fully accessible via the web-UI, allows users to: create new vocabulary files; define the metadata elements; create new kinds of semantic relationship types; configure rules-bases to govern semantic and taxonomic house-rules; customize display formats and perform data import functions.
Enterprise Scalability
Synaptica provides an enterprise-class solution for authority file and controlled vocabulary management. The system uses a library of COM business objects, which can be accessed through the web-application or via an API. The system supports SQL Server and Oracle databases scalable for multiple users and millions of terms and relationships. A library of stored procedures supports native database API integration.
Onsite or Remote-Hosting
Synaptica is a client-server web application that can be installed locally on a client’s intranet or extranet server. Alternatively, Dow Jones can host client systems on our secure servers, which means the client needs no special equipment. In either case, systems use password-protected accounts, so users can access all of Synaptica's features from anywhere in the world using standard personal computers and web-browsers.