SMW+ : “Semantic MediaWiki Plus”

Paul G. Allen (Microsoft co-founder) has a vision:

“the Digital Aristotle enables anyone to ask any science question and get answers with explanations using a comprehensive, socially authored knowledge base.”

http://ProjectHalo.comhttp://ProjectHalo.com

Halo Extension: Helps to make the annotation-process easier and better manageable, and to simply knowledge retrieval.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Halo_Extension_User_Manual

WYSIWYG Extension: WYSIWYG editor including graphical annotations and template picker.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:WYSIWYG_Extension

TreeView Extension: Improved exploration of wiki articles.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:TreeView_Extension

EnhancedRetrieval Extension:

Provides full text retrieval and semantic retrieval in one single user interface.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Enhanced_Retrieval_Extension

RichMedia Extension: Handle more filetypes in your wiki and tag while you upload.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Rich_Media_Extension

haloACL Extension: User rights management system to protect articles, namespaces, categories and property values.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:HaloAccessControlList

SemanticGardening Extension:

Automatically checks your wiki knowledge base for faults.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Semantic_Gardening_Extension

SemanticNotifications Extension:

Extends MediaWiki’s watch-feature semantically.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Semantic_Notifications_Extension

DataImport Extension: Enrich your wiki with data from WebServices, legacy systems, and import emails and populate wiki articles from external apps.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Semantic_Notifications_Extension

Deployment Extension: Upgrade and extend your (S)MW installation automaticallyhttp://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Deployment_Framework

TripleStore Connector Brings reasoning capabilities to your wiki.http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Basic_Triplestore

You should consider using it, if: your community doesn’t like the annotation- and query-syntax

and feels lost in the ontology

Benefits for your wiki: Your community will collaborate more efficiently on the wiki’s

ontology, the wiki’s ontology becomes transparent to your community and your community gets instant rewards for including freehand

annotations thanks to a comprehensible graphical query interface.

Where to get it:http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/files/SMW%20Halo%20Extension/SMWHalo%201.4.5/smwhalo-1.4.5.zip/download

Read more:http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Halo_Extension_1.4.5?context=Help%3AHalo+Extension+1.4.5

Requires: SMW 1.4.3 MediaWiki 1.13

You should consider using it, if: your community requires WYSIWYG editing

capabilities Benefits for your wiki:

Wealth of individually layouted wiki articles Contributors don’t need to learn wikitext-syntax

Where to get it:http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/files/SMW%20Halo%20Extension/SMWHalo%201.4.5/smwhalo-ext-1.4.5.zip/download

Read more:http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:WYSIWYG_Extension

Requires: halo Extension 1.4.5

You should consider using it, if: Your articles are heavily interconnected with

relations and you want to display the articles in a tree.

Benefits for your wiki: Quick visual access to your structure of articles

Where to get it:http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/files/SMW%20Halo%20Extension/SMWHalo%201.4.5/smwhalo-treeview-1.2.zip/download

Read more:http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:TreeView_Extension

Requires: halo Extension 1.4.5

Features:

• Spans a tree according to a property

• Filter tree elements by category or an arbitrary filter statement

• Loads tree-elements dynamically

• Icons are fully configurable

You should consider using it, if: You want to combine full-text retrieval with

semantic search. Benefits for your wiki:

More adequate full-text search hits. Where to get it:http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/files/SMW%20Halo%20Extension/SMWHalo%201.4.5/smwhalo-search-1.3.zip/download

Read more:http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Enhanced_Retrieval_Extension

Requires: halo Extension 1.4.5

DISPLAYING SEARCH HITSDISPLAYING SEARCH HITS

Features:

• Detects paths between search terms

Structure and Feature

You should consider using it, if: your community requests tabbing external data like

webservices, emails, csv-files etc etc.

Benefits for your wiki: Embed the wiki into your daily work routine – make it your data

dashboard. Populate articles from external apps.

Where to get it:http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/files/SMW%20Halo%20Extension/SMWHalo%201.4.5/smwhalo-dataimport-1.2.zip/download

Read more:http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Data_Import_Extension

Demo showcase:http://diedemo.ontoprise.com/index.php/Main_Page

Requires: SMW 1.4.3, halo 1.4.5

Features:

• Use prefabricated term import modules like email, webservice, csv-file• Implement modules by youself and embed into term import framework

You should consider using it, if: you want to enhance reasoning power of your wiki; exploit

symmetric, transitive and inverse properties.

Benefits for your wiki: Reduce the number of manual annotations. Generate richer query results. Formulate queries in ask- or SPARQL-syntax.

Where to get it:http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/files/SMW%20Halo%20Extension/SMWHalo%201.4.5/ts-connector-

jena-1.3.zip/download(comes with Jena reasoning engine)

Read more:http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Basic_Triplestore

Requires: SMW 1.4.3, halo 1.4.5, Jena or OntoBroker

You should consider using it, if: parts of your community must not see confidential data in

the wiki.

Benefits for your wiki: You can open up parts of your wiki to external users. Semantic queries and annotations become security aware

(including fulltext retrieval, recent changes etc etc). Closes all security leaks of MediaWiki.

Where to get it:http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/files/SMW%20Halo%20Extension/SMWHalo%201.4.5/

HaloACL-1.0.zip/download

Read more:http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:All_manuals?context=Help

%3AEnhanced+Retrieval+Extension+1.3

Requires: MediaWiki 1.13

Features:

• Define arbitrary user groups

• Protect articles, namespaces, categories, properties

• Grant access to groups or individual users

You should consider using it, if: you want to improve the quality of your knowledge base.

Benefits for your wiki: Detect violations of schema level constraints. Detect articles without annotations. Detect bad modeling styles. Check validity of links to external resources.

Where to get it:http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-extension/files/SMW%20Halo%20Extension/SMWHalo%201.4.5/smwhalo-

gardening-1.2.zip/download

Read more:http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:Semantic_Gardening_Extension

Requires: SMW 1.4.3

Features:

• check the wiki consistency• materialize template content• find undefined entities• find pages without annotations• find anomalies and• check referential integrity• export the wiki as OWL ontology• import an OWL file into the wiki

Features:

• Gardening issues are listed in log files or in the ontology browser

Price FREE download on http://sourceforge.net/projects/halo-

extension/files/ License

GPL (except TripleStore) User manuals

http://smwforum.ontoprise.com/smwforum/index.php/Help:All_manuals

Try it out online: http://smwdemo.ontoprise.com/index.php/Main_Page

Too complicated??

Too complicated??

SMW+ is an ready-to-use semantic enterprise wiki

that lets you create and share knowledge with your

team.

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