The NEPOMUK-KDE implementation effort

Following a BoF session at this year's aKademy today I officially announce the 
start of the NEPOMUK-KDE implementation effort.

Nepomuk [1] is an europeean research project which intends to create 
the "Social Semantic Desktop", a comprehensive solution – methods, data 
structures, and a set of tools – for extending the personal computer into a 
collaborative environment, which improves the state of art in online 
collaboration and personal data management and augments the intellect of 
people by providing and organizing information created by single or group 
efforts.

Thus, the Nepomuk project intends to provide the basis for implementations of 
the idea of the "Social Semantic Desktop". This NEPOMUK-KDE project will be 
the first implementation of this kind based on and aimed towards KDE4 
technology.

To get a "quick-start" idea of what NEPOMUK-KDE is think of a combination of 
technologies like Tenor, Strigi, or Beagle combined with an all-explaining 
ontology and advanced p2p features that allow communication of all the 
information stored on the desktop.

The main focus of the project will be to
1. Provide an implementation of the Nepomuk service architecture, most
   importantly the RDF storage and query services.
2. Implement the first use cases as stated in the Wiki [2] (for example
   generic file tagging)
3. Implement highly usable KDE4 GUI components
4. Provide a basis for "hands-on" feedback to the Nepomuk project to 
   exploit practical problems and help in creating high-end standards.

If you are interested and want to participate (even if this only means 
providing ideas or following the discussions) please subscribe to the new 
nepomuk-kde mailing list [3] and monitor the Wiki [2].

Cheers,
Sebastian Trüg

[1] http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org
[2] http://nepomuk-kde.semanticdesktop.org
[3] Sorry, the mailing list is not online yet. Once it is I will inform you
    about it.
_______________________________________________
kde-announce mailing list
kde-announce@kde.org
https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-announce