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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