STRIDE

STRIDE is one of the most powerful and versatile thesaurus management systems available. It builds and maintains standard vocabularies for use in information indexing and retrieval. It is simple to use and gives rapid response even when accessing very large thesauri.

• STRIDE supports all the thesaurus relationships and display fornats defined in the standards ISO 2788 and ANSI Z39.19 and enables you to define your own special relationships as well.
  
• By setting up suitable relationships you can implement full multi-lingual thesauri, as specified in ISO 5964.
  
• STRIDE gives you full control over how much information STRIDE displays, using a simple but flexible display language. In addition to the standard displays, STRIDE provides symbolic and graphical tree representations of term relationships. You have full choice of font and colour for your display and all displays can be printed. .
  
• You can easily create or remove one-to-many links using dialogs and buttons. STRIDE automatically creates the reciprocal links and maintains an integrity check on all your linking.
  
• STRIDE has hypertext facilities which enable you to move to related contexts while scanning a thesaurus.
  
• STRIDE is convenient for the single PC user but it also has all the features required for a major multi-user system. It allows both interactive and batch editing and provides facilities for automatic logging of transactions. Thesaurus modifications take immediate effect, ensuring instant currency of the updated thesaurus for all users.

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