[dot] Technology Review explores NEPOMUK, the Social Semantic Desktop in KDE

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URL: http://dot.kde.org/1229598403/

From: Stuart Jarvis <>
Dept: everything-is-connected-to-everything-else
Date: Thursday 18/Dec/2008, @03:06

Technology Review explores NEPOMUK, the Social Semantic Desktop in KDE
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   KDE 4 saw the introduction of NEPOMUK, the foundations for the
"Social Semantic Desktop". The idea behind Semantic desktops is to make
it possible for computers to identify meaningful relations between files
and real-world  people and relationships. These relations can then be
exploited to help the  user find their data. Read the full Technology
Review  article on the project
[http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/21840/?a=f] to learn why it
"might be the semantic desktop that  actually survives" and see how its
inclusion in KDE is making it accessible to  end users during its
development process. Read on for a brief overview of how NEPOMUK
[http://nepomuk.kde.org/] works.

     NEPOMUK offers a combination of automatically created metadata
(such as document modification dates and music file tags) with
user-created comments and more complex relationships such as that
between an email attachment and the sender and recipients of an email.
Files can then be found by using a search combining several items of
metadata rather than relying only on keywords. NEPOMUK aims to go a step
further than other similar projects by making it easy for members of a
community to share their accumulated metadata and to transfer files with
the collected metadata intact.