Semantic Desktop 2.0: The Gnowsis Experience

A paper written by Christiaan Fluit, Benjamin Horak, Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes, Andreas Dengel, Danish Nadeem, Leo Sauermann, Dominik Heim and Malte Kiesel. It was presented at the ISWC2006.

[edit] Abstract

In this paper we present lessons learned from building a Semantic Desktop system, the gnowsis beta. On desktop computers, semantic software has to provide stable services and has to reflect the personal view of the user. Our approach to ontologies, the Personal Information Model PIMO allows to create tagging services like del.icio.us on the desktop. A semantic wiki allows further annotations. Continuous evaluations of the system helped to improve it. These results were created in the EPOS research pro ject and are available in the open source projects Aperture, kaukoluwiki, and gnowsis and will be continued in the Nepomuk pro ject. By using these components, other developers can create new desktop applications the web 2.0 way.

The schedule for this talk can be found in the conference programme and a linked list of all talks is provided in the article on ISWC2006 papers. This article has originally been created from the RDF metadata for ISWC 2006.