Trailblazer - Installation Guide

Trailblazer is an extension for the Mozilla Firefox browser, developed by SIRG, which semantically enriches a user's experience without altering the content of the web-page. It allows the user to add extra information, such as bookmarks and additional notes regarding specific items on the web-page. These can be used to provide clarification and understanding of the content on the page. Trailblazer derives the context of the currently viewed information and applies the relevant links.

In order for Trailblazer to be able to categorise text on a web page and to apply the relevant additional information, Trailblazer needs to be trained by a user. They can add a new category and teach Trailblazer about it by showing it a number of web-pages describing this domain. Trailblazer will extract information from the web-page and associate it with the given category. The trails created can be outputted in the machine readable language RDF and shared. This facilitates the distribution of discovered information through the sharing of trails in order to support community based knowledge.

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Part of Trailblazer?s functionality maintains links about named entities to your favourite wiki sites. In order for this functionality to be enabled, the url?s and descriptions of your wiki?s must be added to Trailblazer. The wiki preferences can be found under: "Tools -> Extensions -> trailblazer 1.0 -> Options->Add"

In this dialog box, enter a description to describe the wiki followed by the url of this wiki. Be careful to enter the url of the wiki correctly. For example, the dialog box below shows the popular online site Wikipedia being added. Notice how the url of the wiki is entered. It only contains the root url of the wiki.