Extension:Halo Extension
From MediaWiki.org
 Release status: stable |
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| Implementation | User interface, Page action, Search, Skin, Ajax, Database |
| Description | The Halo extension is an extension to Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) and has been developed in order to facilitate the use of Semantic Wikis for a large community of users. |
| Author(s) | ontoprise GmbH |
| Last Version | 1.4.5 (2009-10-02) |
| MediaWiki | 1.13 |
| License | GPL |
| Download | download from sourceforge |
| Example | http://smwdemo.ontoprise.com/ |
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The Halo extension is an extension to Semantic MediaWiki (SMW) and has been developed as a part of Project Halo in order to facilitate the use of Semantic Wikis for a large community of users. Main focus of the development was to create tools that increase the ease of use of SMW features and advertise the immediate benefits of semantic content.
[edit] Features
Halo enhances SMW by providing intuitive graphical interfaces that facilitate the authoring, retrieval, navigation and organization of semantic data in SMW.
It basically comprises:
- Semantic Toolbar, allowing to quickly inspect, create and alter the semantic annotations of a wiki article
- Advanced Annotation Mode, for annotating contents semantically in a WYSIWYG-like manner without having to cope with the wiki source text
- Auto-completion, suggesting entities or data existing in the wiki while typing (e.g. when annotating in the wiki-text or filling in input fields)
- Graphical query interface, empowering users to easily compose queries and preview query results with different output formats
- Ontology browser, enabling intuitive browsing and changing of the wiki's ontology and lookup of instance and property information
Further information and documentation can be found at:
Ontoprise also distributes a pre-configured and ready-to-use bundle of the Halo extension (including MediaWiki, Semantic MediaWiki and other useful extensions) which is also known as SMW+:
