[edit] About

The semantic extension allows one to associate attributes with articles. One set of attributes that would be cool to implement is the storage of business hours. The goal of this project is to device a set of attributes and wiki templates to allow the easy embedding of business hours in an article. Then, it would be possible to use the semantic extension to do things like:

• Find all grocery stores that are currently open
• Find all pizza places open Friday at 2am

[edit] Details

The semantic extension currently only allows simple types for attributes. Allow we could store business hours as a string with the format

M-F 8-5
Sat 9-4

or similar, it would not be possible to search this using the semantic query tool. Instead, individual attributes for each field must be made. Example attributes would be

• Monday open time
• Monday close time
• Tuesday open time
• Tuesday close time
• etc

It would be very cumbersome if someone had to type out 14 attributes just to define the hours of operation of a business! What is needed is a quicker way to do this. Enter templates. It should be possible to create an Hours of operation template that allows one to specify hours of operation in shorthand form.

Entering hours of operation should be painless and should require minimal effort from users. It might be possible to use ParserFunctions to combine all the logic into one template.

[edit] Status

This project is incomplete.