Hi. I have just added a new (rather Web-2.0, but anyway) feature to SMW: you can now have arbitrary customised "service links" in the factbox. You know that geographic coordinates already showed some additional links to online maps in the factbox. But those links were hardcoded and could not be changed in the wiki.
The new mechanism allows wiki admins to add and modify link (templates) for display in the factbox. Users can then attach any number of such admin-defined services to any attribute, thus making it display the according links. For details, see the docu [1]. You can do a lot with the new feature, since you can use it on any attribute. You can have direct links from string attributes to search engines, or from integer attributes to IMDb. It also solves the problem of scale for online mapping services: different attributes now can use different zoom factors for their mapping links. Ontoworld already provides a direct Swoogle link with the Attribute:Namespace now, see e.g. [2]. In spite of all this, wiki sysops still retain control over what is linked in the factbox, while users are free to use or not use the services provided by the wiki (sysops). We also hope that this feature can be used to further motivate wiki users to annotate their texts. Cheers, Markus [1] http://ontoworld.org/wiki/Help:Service_links [2] http://ontoworld.org/wiki/FOAF -- Markus Krötzsch Institute AIFB, University of Karlsruhe, D-76128 Karlsruhe [EMAIL PROTECTED] phone +49 (0)721 608 7362 www.aifb.uni-karlsruhe.de/WBS/ fax +49 (0)721 693 717
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