Semantic desktop 2.0: the Gnowsis experience

Authors:
Leo Sauermann;Gunnar Aastrand Grimnes;Malte Kiesel;Christiaan Fluit;Heiko Maus;Dominik Heim;Danish Nadeem;Benjamin Horak;Andreas Dengel
Affiliations:
Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Aduna BV, Amersfoort, The Netherlands;Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of Osnabrueck, Germany;Knowledge-Based Systems Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany;Knowledge Management Department, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany
Venue:
ISWC'06 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on The Semantic Web
Year:
2006

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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 project and are available in the open source projects Aperture, kaukoluwiki, and gnowsis and will be continued in the Nepomuk project. By using these components, other developers can create new desktop applications the web 2.0 way.