Cognatrix

Version 1.6.0b3 of Cognatrix is available and can be downloaded here. This release is functionally identical to 1.6.0b2 but adds version information to the thesaurus documents it saves. This update works in conjunction with Cognatrix 1.5.2 in that thesaurus documents created by Cognatrix 1.6.0b3 (or later) will be correctly identified, rather than just silently fail to open.

Cognatrix 1.5.2 has been released. This version is functionally identical to Cognatrix 1.5.1 but is able to detect an attempt to open a Cognatrix 1.6 (“multilingual”) document. Responds with the message “The document could not be opened”, rather than just doing nothing.

LGOSystems has released CognatrixSearch 1.0 which is a search engine designed to be used with Cognatrix thesauri. It runs on Mac OS X 10.4 and later (Tiger) and helps your users to find terms published in your Cognatrix thesauri. CognatrixSearch is built on SearchKit technology (ie, the same as SpotLight). It is implemented as a web “CGI”, is controlled from a “System Preferences” panel, and works with multiple thesauri out of the box. CognatrixSearch is a free add-on to Cognatrix. You will find more information here.

A beta version of Cognatrix 1.6 is available. This version allows you to create multi-lingual thesauri where terms in different languages can be associated with each other via a new set of relationships: exact equivalence, inexact equivalence and partial equivalence. Cognatrix 1.6 ships with 20 languages predefined (those for the EU) but you can add, delete or edit language definitions as needed. There is no design limit on the number of language definitions that can be supported. Each item in your thesaurus has a language code and this carries through to generated HTML and XML. Naturally, Unicode is supported in all fields so you can use any language script supported by Mac OS X. An information page is available where you can find out more about Cognatrix 1.6. You can also download Cognatrix 1.6.0b2 directly (includes an updated user guide in the Help menu) or just the updated user guide if you want to read all the details first.