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© F. Dell'Orso, Bibliography Formatting Software: An Evaluation Template
Last update: September, 20, 2002
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Legend Web resources 1 Identity card 2 Installation 3 General 4 Structure 5 Input/Edit
6 Import 7 Search 8 Thesaurus
9 Output 10 Formatting language 11 Sort 12 Export
13 Manuscript formatting 14 Term/Entry list 15 Documentation

The grid's items overstriked in red have not been taken into account for the purposes of this shorter version. The numbering and the content are the same as the full version of the evaluation grid

8 Thesaurus
Bookends
Bookends: no

8.1 Link types: BT/NT; NTG/BTG; RT; USE/UF; TT/NT;

Bookends: n.a.              

8.2 Links are automatically bidirectional
Bookends: n.a.

8.3 Links can be edited (i.e. change without detaching entries)
Bookends: n.a.

8.4 Can create kw while making links
Bookends: n.a.

8.5 Links are validated and controlled, e.g.:
-- a Narrower Term (sub-) cannot also be Broader Term (super-) of its Broader Term
-- a rejected term (Used for) cannot be used
-- no term can refer to itself
Bookends: n.a.

8.6 SN Scope notes

Bookends: n.a.

8.7 Multilingual links codes

Bookends: n.a.

8.8 Can import list of unlinked/linked entries

Bookends: n.a.

8.9 List is relationally linked to database records

Bookends: n.a.

8.10 List can be used from records during input

Bookends: n.a.

8.11 List can be used during search:
  1. browsing
  2. navigation
  3. direct search
  4. list itself can be searched

Bookends: n.a.

8.12 Output
1. screen preview 2. printout

Bookends: n.a.

8.13 Output layout
  1. alphabetic with links and their codes
  2. systematic with alphabetically listed subentries
  3. permuted: KWIC, KWOC ...
  4. hierarchical (TT + alphabetic list; TT + hierarchical list; TT only)

Bookends: n.a.

8.14 Statistics

Bookends: n.a.

8.15 Other, e.g.: provisions for candidate descriptors, identifiers, polihierarchy ...

Bookends: n.a.
Legend  
Multiple choice when choice is multiple (e.g. 1. 2. 3. etc.) number means "yes", its absence means "no: lack of the feature", unless a note states otherwise Commands menus are indicated between double quotes, specific commands within menus or selection panels are introduced by an arrow, e.g. "Edit" -> Show clipboard, means: "open the Edit menu and select Show clipboard"
A/D = ascending / descending sort order b/e = beginning / end of field or record
CDF=Comma Delimited File format db = database; dbn = database name
fn.XXX = filename + name extension FL = formatting language, i.e.: set of commands to define output styles
n: many, undefinite quantity kw = keyword
l/r = left/right n.a. = not applicable
RefID = record, or reference, identifier RN = record number
RT = reference, or document, or record type sw = software
wp = word processor x-refs = cross reference (e.g.: see, see also...)

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