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User's guide :

• Introduction to TermBridge and Genetrix
• More about terminology (Geneter profiles)
• More about lexicography (XmLex and bilingual dictionaries)
• More about transforming dictionaries into terminology
• Data elements (online semantic repository)

Objectives

The Genetrix server is an experimental demonstrator for the cooperative management, online distribution and reuse of XML linguistic data and their associated documents.

Data have to conform to the XML schema TermBridge which modules are designed to manage

• terminological data - Geneter (ISO 16642 Annex C), ISO 860
• lexicographical data - LEXml (ISO 1951 revised)
• bibliographical data (ISO 690 - ISO 12615)
• metadata (Dublin Core - ISO 15836)
• monolingual/multilingual thesaurus (ISO 2788, ISO 5964)
• semantic repository (ISO 11179)
• XML documents and their XSL/CSS stylesheets)
• other documents (.doc, .pdf, .txt...)

Services

The Genetrix server is oriented towards cooperation on Internet. Each project of cooperation is hosted in a "working area" with a specific administration, a specific XML model and specific XSL presentation. Members who are registered in a working area collaborate according to "sharing rules" defining for each of them their role (reader/writer/validator) an their rights (independancy or cooperation). Many functions have been implemented in order to check non ambiguity and data consistency.

On the Genetrix server you will find:

• a description of the XML modules integrated within TermBridge. Generic modules that have been specifically designed for TermBridge (terminology, lexicograpphy, bibliography, metadata, semantic repository) can be customized according to ISO rules for creating XML subset or supersets in order to define "profiles" corresponding to specific needs.
• profiles currently on work for standardized terminology, cross-cultural terminology, localisation tools data, bilingual dictionaries, gateway from lexicography to terminology etc.
• stylesheets for editing XML data corresponding to these profiles. At the moment only Authentic (an Altova product) stylesheets are available. This editor is free but not open. Other true open solutions are coming.
• a "guest area" where you can register freely and work with your own data.
• an access for querying data in public working areas
• a list of the public working areas and of their registered members (individuals or organisations)

How to begin?

• have a look on the public online databases : 3000 concepts belonging to the domain of energy (4 languages), 10 000 Microsoft glossaries entries (15 langues), 25 0000 parallel sentences (11 languages) coming from the European Parlement debates, the ISO 1087-1 terminological standard, a glossary of terminology etc. For each type of entry, an explanation of data elements is provided by the semantic repository.
• try the whole XML data production chain by registering as a guest (terminology, metadata, thesaurus, semantic repository)

Going further...

• on demand, you can manage your own private or public working area on the Genetrix server.
• You can download and install your own Genetrix server freely on a Linux or Windows platform. Genetrix is based on open software : the publishing framework Cocoon, the relational database PostgreSQL (but it can be adapted to other databases like Oracle), the full-text engine Lucene, Java and Unicode. Development techniques for Genetrix are conformant to internationalisation best practices (I18n) so that you can adapt the server to your own language.