How to Run Interface

How to Run the Interface

General navigation

The Gotcha web site uses a tabbed image map at the top of every page to navigate the topmost pages. It also uses the blue colored left hand column containing image maps to navigate to children of the active page e.g. click Case Studies in Resources' left hand column to reach that page. The site is only two levels deep so there is no need for a site map presently.

Searches

To conduct a search, simply enter your query in the query box, and hit go. Please put quotation marks around a phrase. If you require all terms/phrases used in your query to appear in a document, select "all terms/phrases", which is the default. If you want to find a document that contains at least one of the terms/phrases used in your query, then select "any term/phrase".

You can enhance your query by choosing relevant terms/phrases suggested by Gotcha's proprietary KM thesaurus. Simply check the box "Enhance the query by adding related terms/phrases. If you insist a term/phrase appear in a document, select ".'"Mandatory". If you would prefer a term/phrase appear but it is not absolutely necessary, then select "Optional". If you select neither, the term/phrase will not be included in your query. You can conduct a quasi-boolean search by selecting "Optional" or "Mandatory" or neither for each individual term/phrase, though a short-cut of selecting eaither "All Optional" or "All Mandatory" is provided.

The Web sites you can use in your Gotcha search are:

The Gotcha Site: All the web pages in the Gotcha site.
Gotcha Library: Bibliographic records about KM for print and on-line resources manually catalogued by Gotcha group members using Gotcha's proprietary thesaurus.
The Web in general: The results from all of the search engines used (including Altavista, Excite, Infoseek, Lycos, WebCrawler, Yahoo, Thunderstone, LookSmart, The Mining Co.) will be merged.
KM World Web Site: An on-line resource focused on knowledge management.
CIO Magazine Web Site: A resource for information executives responsible for the strategic application of information technology.
Brint.com: An on-line resource focused on business, information technology, e-commerce, and knowledge management.

All this information is explained in the tips page.