Extension:Halo Extension

The SMW Project Halo Extension is an extension to the Extension:Semantic MediaWiki 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 developments 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/.

A demowiki with the Halo extension installed is available at http://halowiki.ontoprise.de.

Features of the Halo extension
The features of the Halo extension can be divided into four main sections:
 * 1) enhancing wiki navigation - features to ease and speed up navigation and access to articles, as well as semantic data, in the wiki, like an ontology browser and autocompletion
 * 2) improving knowledge authoring - features to allow easy and expressive addition of semantic data to the wiki, like a toolbar to introduce semantic markup
 * 3) simplifying knowledge retrieval - features to query knowledge and access information stored in the wiki, like a query interface and an ontology enhanced search page
 * 4) gardening the knowledgebase - features that allow users to detect inconsistencies and continuously improve the quality of the authored knowledge


 * Find descriptions of each feature and its documentation on the ontoprise's wiki page.