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

Overview

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.

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.

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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, Synaptica 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.