WebChoir(TM) Announces Release of Its Vocabulary Server(TM) and Metadata Environment(TM) -- Advanced Solutions for Organizing and Searching Databases and the Web.

LOS ANGELES -- Corporations and government agencies waste billions managing critical information in overlapping and incompatible databases and websites. Employees regularly conduct repetitive and non-productive searches through redundant datasets and search inefficiently through vast stores of Internet technologies. These inefficiencies diminish the organization's ability to carry out critical missions.

Since existing databases represent huge enterprise investments in systems architectures and applications, generally it is not feasible for organizations or agencies to replace them wholesale with a well-organized, unified approach.

A structured and integrated solution to information access is the only way to achieve the most efficient and least expensive levels of knowledge management. WebChoir announces the invention and release of two integrated suites of software tools that permit precise information organization and retrieval from existing databases and websites, without forcing the organization to start over.

Available now, the WebChoir Vocabulary Server(TM) is a set of tools for building controlled vocabularies compliant with international standards, multilingual capable, adhering to state-of-the art technical standards (UNICODE, J2EE, XML, Web Services, and others).

Using WebChoir's new products, for example, a multinational automobile company can build a hierarchy consisting of its product lines (e.g., auto brand -- model -- variants). To these, listings of parts, regional distribution points, dealers, suppliers, advertising media, etc., are organized. Relationships among terms as well as translations for foreign operations are readily implemented.

Pharmaceutical companies can use these tools for organizing vast medication references, while efficiently tracking alternate names, attributes, and contraindications.

News organizations can use these tools for managing vast archives of information in order to assure quick, precise and accurate editing and fact-checking. And on and on, these tools provide critical advantages in high-value information management throughout virtually every government, economic and academic sector.

Government agencies can use WebChoir tools to organize and control human, munitions and logistical inventories or identify and track subjects with and their aliases in various geographical locations.

WebChoir has also revolutionized the process of metatagging web objects, so that now virtually every web object can be precisely tracked and retrieved easily and efficiently. Its MetaChoir Metadata Environment(TM) consists of MetaIndexer(TM) and MetaSearcher(TM).

MetaIndexer(TM) assigns metadata to Web objects according to standards or user-defined templates and its CategoryBuilder(TM) constructs categories to which Web objects are assigned logically and consistently. MetaIndexer(TM) assigns controlled vocabulary terms from the WebChoir Vocabulary Server(TM) to each of the Web objects. MetaSearcher(TM) is an advanced retrieval platform empowering precise and fast access to metadata created by MetaIndxer,(TM) by using either keywords or terms managed by the WebChoir Vocabulary Server(TM).

Available individually or as suites, the WebChoir Vocabulary Server(TM) includes ConceptChoir(TM), ViewChoir(TM), LinkChoir(TM), and SeekChoir(TM). The MetaChoir Metadata Environment(TM) includes MetaIndexer(TM) and MetaSearcher(TM). Demos, trial versions, white papers, FAQs, and pricing about these and the full WebChoir product line are available at www.webchoir.com.