Installing the CILTKN desktop integration tools, alpha 1

This is Chris' first attempt at desktop integration with CILTKN.

To install,

  1. Make sure you have Sherlock. If your MacOS isn't recent enough for Sherlock, you'll have to upgrade.
  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 sherlock plugin here. Drag the ciltkn.src file to your closed system folder.
  4. Get the two files CILT Collection and Look up in CILTKN
  5. 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.

Please let me know whether this is useful. Many thanks for testing. -Chris