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2006 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
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
Published in: The Semantic Web - ISWC 2006
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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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.