SmILE Semantic Information Systems and Language Engineering Group

NEPOMUK - Networked Environment for Personal Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge

NEPOMUK aims at empowering individual knowledge workers to better exploit their personal information space and to maintain fruitful communication and exchange within social networks across organizational boundaries.

Within Nepomuk we developed a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal in- formation management and the sharing and exchange across so- cial and organizational relations. This solution is called the Social Semantic Desktop.

In particular the SmILE group works on top of the Nepomuk KDE layer, a semantic desktop environment which comes as a standard component of the K Desktop Environment (KDE), a popular graphical interface for the Linux operating system. The semantic desktop is a result from the European Union-funded Nepomuk project. The semantic desktop aims to overcome the current data interoperability problem, where information is caged in the silos of applications. For example, it is today not possible to interconnect separate data items, like the author of a document and her corresponding entry in your address book - much less let you share that interconnection with others. Nepomuk KDE adds a lot of semantic information automatically and encourages users to add more by making annotated data more useful. It also provides an easy way to share tagged information with others.

Link: http://nepomuk.kde.org/
Link: http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/