From: Markus K. <ma...@se...> - 2009-03-26 08:31:34
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Hello, Below are two news items regarding Exhibit: (1) A new version of the Exhibit result printer for SMW was uploaded to SVN (2) Exhibit can now be used on any webpage to browse data from remote wikis If you do not know Exhibit, have a look at the example pages [1] and [2] that demonstrate the according SMW result printer. (1) Exhibit in Semantic Result Formats (SRF) The Exhibit result printer (part of the SRF extension) has now been updated in SVN to fix many initial bugs and to generally improve its behaviour. Changes in the update: * Required scripts, styles, images now largely included. Only Timeline and Map will access a remote server now. * Fixes for Timeline (it actually works with SMW 1.4.* now) * Google Maps key can be set in LocalSettings.php as follows: $wgGoogleMapsKey = 'yourkey'; If this is not set, the "maps" view will be disabled. * Many formatting improvements (e.g. in displaying links in results) * Improved compatibility with Internet Explorer (esp. IE8) The update can be obtained via SVN. You can also replace the Exhibit directory in an existing SRF installation with the directory obtained from [3] (use "svn checkout http://..." to download it). (2) Exhibit on the Web Exhibit can also be used on external web pages to display data from remote wikis. See [4] for an impressive example of how to do this with only little HTML -- observe how this is combined with SemanticForms. Proper documentation for this still needs to be written. I am looking forward to see some creative new applications that exploit this new option as a way to free wiki data from the site that hosts it. All Exhibit improvements have been contributed by Fabian Howahl and the Exhibit team at MIT CSAIL. Cheers, Markus [1] http://semanticweb.org/wiki/User:Markus_Krötzsch/Browse_tools [2] http://semanticweb.org/wiki/User:Markus_Krötzsch/Map_example [3] http://svn.wikimedia.org/svnroot/mediawiki/trunk/extensions/SemanticResultFormats/Exhibit/ [4] http://beer.geekworks.de/ -- Markus Krötzsch Semantic MediaWiki http://semantic-mediawiki.org http://korrekt.org ma...@se... |