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The Deep Query Manager™ is an extremely capable and functional document
harvesting, tracking, management, analysis, reporting, collaboration,
results and publication platform. This page, and its two accompanying
siblings, presents a few of the DQM's screens among the multitude
available in the product. This page covers the Publisher Portal , Options & Settings , and the online Help System. Across all three related pages the sections include:
Publisher Portal
The DQM Publisher module
is one of the most flexible and powerful components within the system.
It is a complete, turnkey system for creating personal and enterprise
reference libraries or online subject portals. It is fast to set up,
easy to maintain, and highly scalable. The system uniquely places
documents in a single-pass manner without any need for pre-tagging or
document pre-processing. This means the Publisher is extremely fast,
with updates displaying in near real-time. It is also a perfect
collaboration environment for multiple groups to present and post the
best vetted results in multiple topic and subject areas, such as for
example across departments.
At first set up, the system can be bootstrapped by simply importing an Excel spreadsheet file:
Actually, both the import and export form of the Publisher structure
and all of its associated specifications are in XML format. The import
and export structures can be readily roundtripped between the DQM and
Excel. Generally, during growth and maintenance of the Publisher
portal(s), the internal DQM Publisher management center is quite
sufficient for all needs. However, there are occasions -- specifically
initial set-up but also bulk structural changes such as splitting big
branches or reorganizing the structure -- when Excel is a better choice
for structure management. An example of this Excel XML specification
form is shown below. Note the hierarchy is simply represented by
indented columns, with queries and other dictionary and placement
specifications shown in columns to the right. The other aspect to note
is that specifications within a branch can be inherited down to the
leaf nodes, leading to much reduced overall specification requirements
for a given subject structure:
Within the DQM itself the structure can be shown (and edited or managed) in a collapsed tree mode:
Or in an expanded tree mode with all nodes shown:
Clicking an individual node link invokes the node editor. In it,
all specification assignments can be altered. For example, node or
branches draw upon various document pools or projects for their
candidate document placements. This organization means that highly
disparate subject matter can be combined and displayed in a Publisher
structure. Alternatively, some branches may be updated on, say, an
hourly basis such as organized news feeds, while other parts of the
structure can be updated on a lengthier or more static basis.
As with other general DQM capabilities and reports, node results are
scored based on a node query while filters or controlled vocabulary
dictionaries provide further subsetting of placement candidates. Since
these filters can be inherited at any level in the structure, it is
easy, for example, to exclude any pornography from the entire structure
with a single dictionary or to segregate results in two different main
branches, such as between agriculture and astronomy. Thus, in essence,
the structure of the DQM Publisher can be viewed as a highly organized
and optimized display that combines multiple individual DQM reports.
When any changes to a node specification are saved, the new
placement results are shown in real time. Other feedback mechanisms
aid the analyst in further refinements, with workflow settings
indicating progress and status of structure nodes and branches:
Reuasable filter lists, or dictionaries, can also be constructed and
applied, as noted in other aspects of the DQM's operations. Because of
the importance of such lists and their reuse, a specific list manager
is also provided:
As the structure achieves acceptable refinement, it can then be
published as a live site with a single click. A resulting example for
one BrightPlanet client, the State of South Dakota, is shown by the SoDakLIVE site below and can be inspected directly:
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Options & Settings
A portion of the Deep Query Manager™ is devoted to various user
settings and options for the application. These range from start-up
and display choices, to operational behavior of the app and standard
default settings throughout the application. One section, for example,
governs the standard email settings and transmittal forms and formats
for various alerts and exports:
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Help System
The Deep Query Manager™ has a superb, context-sensitive online help
system. Each topic is prefaced with the index to the help system:
There is also a parallel and also superb online tutorial system that
offers guidance in how to get the most out of your Deep Query Manager™
application.
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