Semantic Email as a communication medium for the Social Semantic Desktop

A paper written by Stefan Decker, Siegfried Handschuh and Simon Scerri. It was presented at the ESWC2008. It is about Personal Information Management, Social Semantic Desktop, Workflow Patterns, Speech Act Theory and Semantic Email

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[edit] Abstract

In this paper, we introduce a formal email workflow model based on traditional email, which enables the user to define and execute ad-hoc workflows in an intuitive way. This model paves the way for semantic annotation of implicit, well-defined workflows, thus making them explicit and exposing the missing information in a machine processable way. Grounding this work within the Social Semantic Desktop [1] via appropriate ontologies means that this information can be exploited for the benefit of the user. This will have a direct impact on their personal information management - given email is not just a major channel of data exchange between desktops, but it also serves as a virtual working environment where people collaborate. Thus the presented workflow model will have a concrete manifestation in the creation, organization and exchange of semantic desktop data.

This data has been imported from the ESWC2008 data