[Semediawiki-user] Semantic MediaWiki 0.3 released

[Markus <ma...@ai...>]

Hi all,

I am glad to finally announce the official release of Semantic MediaWiki 0.=
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available as usual at http://sourceforge.net/projects/semediawiki/. The fin=
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0.3 is largely equivalent to the preview version that is still running on=20
wiki.ontoworld.org -- the latest changes mainly concern localization.=20

Semantic MediaWiki 0.3 now runs on MediaWiki 1.6.1 that was released just=20
yesterday. Older versions of MediaWiki should also work but upgrading is=20
generally recommended.

The main new features of 0.3 are:

* support for geographical coordinates (new datatype),
* improved user interface: service links for JScript tooltips, CSS layout,
* OWL/RDF export of all annotation data,
* simplified installation process (including special page for setup/upgrade=
),
* (almost) complete localization; translations available for English and=20
German,
* better MediaWiki integration: namespaces, user/content language, support =
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MediaWiki 1.6,=20
* specials for displaying all relations/attributes,
* experimental (OWL/RDF) ontology import feature,
* and, last but not least, we also fixed quite some bugs.

The next steps towards 0.4 will probably be the inclusion of query results=
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into existing pages, date/time support, and individual user settings for=20
displaying certain datatypes. We also will have another look at ways of=20
hiding the annotations from uninitiated users.

Have fun.

Markus

P.S.: I am not available during the weekend. Upgrading existing wikis shoul=
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work (it's what we do all the time ;), but be aware that there is not going=
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to be much support during the next three days.

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Markus Kr=F6tzsch
Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe
ma...@ai...        phone +49 (0)721 608 7362
www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/     fax +49 (0)721 693  717