NNexus Glasses: a drop-in showcase for wikification.
Deyan Ginev · 2013
Abstract. This paper describes a general drop-in approach for showcasing web services and web user interfaces, provided they are accessible through or realized via JavaScript and CSS. The author utilizes the Greasemonkey extension for Firefox to invade the client with user scripts, which load the desired new functionality, as if looking at the web through an enhanced pair of glasses. Such demos have so far typically required access and modifications to the production server of the target website. The approach is particularly valuable for mock-integration with closed, proprietary platforms and/or sites serving content under restrictive copyright licenses. A potential use case is to aid an “elevator pitch” to a company interested in MKM technologies, by supplementing it with a drop-in demo on their live system. To exemplify, the paper presents a case study of using the recent rewrite of the NNexus auto-linker for mathematical concepts to invade the closed web platforms of Zentrallblat Math and DLMF with wikification links. 1