SMW+ 1.4 (a.k.a. Project Halo) has recently been released. You can purchase the commercial version of this special edition of the Semantic MediaWiki. Or you can download the free (open source) version from Sourceforge. I take some pride in blogging about this as I was a contributor to this release. It was really a pleasure to contribute to this project. My part was to develop the lightweight project management ontology that ships with this version. The PM Ontology came out rather nicely i might add. If you try it out keep in mind I designed it with the idea that others would extend it and thus customize to their own needs. It is simple (KISS) and it provides semantic templates and forms for tasks, projects, people,organizations, events and such. Not much more. but then that’s is just to get you started. Once you learn how to build your own semantic templates and forms you can easily expand this ontology to suit your own organization’s needs. Here’s a quick fact blurb about SMW+ 1.4 from the Ontoprise site.
SMW+ v1.4
It comes pre-configured and ready-to-use comprising:
- an appealing user interface to inspect, create and alter wiki articles and linked data,
- a sophisticated, yet flexible, meta data model to make project progress transparent,
- views on projects, tasks, calendars and linked documents which can be adapted by any team member using a WYSIWYG editor,
- personal home pages for team members including “friend-of-a-friend” features,
- tools for ad-hoc adaptations to the metadata model allowing to tailor SMW according to
the needs of individual team members and
- a web service connector to include data from legacy systems (i.e. bugzilla).
I was reminded of the new release toady while attending Session 4 of the ongoing Semantic Wiki mini-series. Daniel Hansch from Ontoprise gave an overview of the new release during the lighting talks round. Attending on-line events such as these is good way to keep pace of the development of semantic wikis. Today’s focus was on vertical apps for semantic wiki and included presentations by Harold Solbrig and Prof. Guoqian Jiang from the Department of Biomedical Informatics at the Mayo Clinic on LexWiki and BioMedGT (see also: caBiG Knowlege base.) Another highlight today was a presentation by Jie Bao from the Department of Computer Science at RPI. Jie Bao reported on the Tetherless World project which as has delivered some very cool new applications including an interactive map of RPI and an interactive VTO Instrument Map for the the Virtual Solar Terrestrial Observatory. And a third presention was given by Christop Lange who took us all on a whirlwind tour of semantic wikis for mathematics including his very own SWiM: A Semantic Wiki for Mathematical Knowledge Management.
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