What are Thesaurus Management Tools
They are tools that provide support for the development and management of controlled vocabularies and thesauri
Importance of Thesaurus Management Tools
The creation of a thesaurus (a controlled vocabulary) can provide a consistency and searchability that can make your site a much better experience for your users. This involves defining a set of preferred terms and then establishing the relevant, equivalent (non-preferred), broader, narrower and related terms. Once in place, this thesaurus can inform content managers, indexers, search systems and people working on the site's information architecture in the future..
Differences in Stand-alone software and database packages
The issues with purchising/using stand-alone software is that it is not intergrated with other cataloguing or serching browsers in your existing system this can lead to intergration problems. A positive aspect of a stand-alone systems is that the user/organisationcan can develop a single common thesaurus that is relevant to their specific information retrieval and imput needs.
