Extension:Halo Extension

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.

A demonstration video of the extension's main features is available at http://www.ontoprise.de/smwdemo/.

Features of the Halo extension
The features of the Halo extension can be divided into three main sections:


 * enhancing wiki navigation - features to ease and speed up navigation and access to articles, as well as semantic data, in the wiki
 * improving knowledge authoring - features to allow easy and expressive adding of semantic data to the wiki
 * simplifying knowledge retrieval - features to query knowledge and access information stored in the wiki

Feature descriptions and documentation can be found at:
 * SMW user forum for commercial and production use
 * User manual
 * semanticweb.org
 * Free of charge download from sourceforge

Ontoprise also distributes an easy-to-install bundle named "SMW+" containing SMW, Semantic Forms, halo Extension, WYSIWYG editor and much more:
 * SMW+ product home page
 * User manual
 * online shop for easy download