Welcome Leo, Tenor update (was CFP: Semantic Desktop WS 2005)

[Scott Wheeler]

On Tuesday 07 June 2005 16:40, Leo Sauermann wrote:
> Dear KLINK / TENOR Members,
> Hello Scott, Aaron
>
> The idea of attaching semantics and enabling Semantic Search is part of
> a worldwide need, not only in KDE but on desktop computers in general.
>
> I invite everyone, especially Scott & Aaron, to present TENOR at this
> workshop, please submit a paper, and if accepted by the Program
> Committee, present it!
>
> cheers
> Leo Sauermann

Hi Leo --

Thanks for the invitation.  I'll see what I can throw together.  I'd 
tentatively planned to be on vacation that week, but we'll see.

I should take a moment to introduce Leo to the list and give a brief update on 
some of the stuff that's been going on in the Tenor world (since I've been 
mostly quiet here).

First Leo, and one or two of his colleagues from the DFKI (German Research 
Center for Artificial Intelligence) have joined the list after I did a 
presentation there a few weeks back.  They're from the Semantic Webs group 
there and work on the GNOWSIS project, which has some similarities to Tenor.

We talked quite a bit about the similarities and differences between the two 
and possible interoperability.  There I'd mostly thought of using RDF as an 
export format for Tenor sub-graphs that could then be fed into the GNOWSIS 
engine.  This would also give them access (though indirectly) to our metadata 
layer.  Certainly more will follow on that as the components begin to shape 
up.

In the rest of the Tenor world we have been fairly active in discussions 
lately, just away from the mailing list, and I even almost got around to 
checking the stuff into CVS just before we switched to SVN (had the directory 
structure checked in, but not the content).  I'll finally sit down and get 
what I've got checked in in the next couple of days.

Along with that will come a paper that I've written (a revised version of 
which would probably work for the mentioned conference) on the structure and 
conceptual bits of the Tenor architecture.

In the stuff that I'm planning on checking in the basic components -- Nodes, 
Links and Property creation is there and mostly works.  The components for 
searching and iterating over the graph aren't in place though those will 
follow.  Specifically one of the next components to be written is a graph 
iterator of some sort that is aware of its position in graph traversal and 
avoids the requirement to do complete traversal of a query in one step or 
hard-limiting traversals.  Also each of the directories (currently tenor -- 
the library, storage -- db stuff, test, docs and apps) also have README files 
outlining the components that need to be filled in.

All of this is currently written for Qt 3, but in the relatively short term 
future it'll probably move to Qt 4.  Of course after waiting for months 
because "Qt 4 was almost ready" as soon as there's some code starting to 
shape up for Qt 3, Qt 4 is actually in use.

Cheers,

-Scott

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