Installing the CILTKN desktop integration tools, alpha 2

These tools help you more quickly look up items in the CILT Knowledge Network. They provide three sets of features:

  1. A little program to let you look up a CILT person in your Apple Menu
  2. Integration with Sherlock. This means when you use Sherlock to search the Internet, you can choose whether to search for a person in KN. (Unfortunately, this release doesn't take advantage of the new features in MacOS9's Sherlock II. What this means is that you have to go to the Sherlock Hat "My Channel" instead of the pretty face "People" channel.)
  3. The ability to select a person or institution's name in the text of almost any program, control-click it, and look it up in the knowledge network.
To install,

  1. Make sure you have Sherlock. If your MacOS isn't recent enough for Sherlock (8.5 or higher), you'll have to upgrade. MacOS 9's Sherlock II has generated some bugs in this software; if you're using OS 9, let me know.
  2. Install Apple Data Detectors. The info page is at http://www.apple.com/applescript/data_detectors/. The actual file to download is here. Run this installer and reboot if necessary.
  3. Get the CILTKN people lookup program here. Drag this program to the "Apple Menu Items" folder in your Mac's "System Folder".
  4. Get the CILTKN sherlock plugin here. Drag the ciltkn.src file to your closed system folder.
  5. Get the two files CILT Collection and Look up in CILTKN
  6. To install these two files,
You should now be able to use the detectors and plug in. From within Sherlock, you can choose "search internet" and (whenever CILTKN is checked off in the list of search engines) search for people or places on the CILTKN.

From within any application, select a body of text containing a person's name or institution (it recognizes these using capitalized letters, so it won't find "unext.com" but it should work on "Hoadley" or "SRI International") and control click. A menu will pop up allowing you to look up the person in the CILT database.

As you're using these, please think about:

Email me with bugs, questions, suggestions, or reactions anytime. Many thanks for helping us with CILTKN.

Thanks,
Chris