CibbuanoSemantic Web Technology in Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex
December 30th 2008 05:03
After installing Kubuntu Intrepid Ibex earlier this year, I noticed a strange setting lurking in the background...
It was called Nepomuk, and I turned it off, then quickly turned it back on when I read about the project.
Honestly, I didn't understand that blurb, either, so I took a look at the MIT Tech review's article on Nepomuk. They suggest that Nepomuk tries to draw links between different objects on your computer, and across networks.
It's an interesting idea, but how does it work?
"The software generates semantic information by using "crawlers" to go through a computer and annotate as many files as possible. These crawlers look through a user's address book, for example, and search for files related to the people found in there. Nepomuk can then connect a file sent by a particular person with one related to the company that person works for, making Nepomuk a particularly useful way to search a computer, Bernardi says. "
Ah... that's a little creepy, to be honest. Nepomuk sifts through your address book then makes connections with files? It's like the CIA, busting your own bad self, and you voluntarily installed it.
It comes as a default app with KDE 4.2, but I still haven't seen how it could be useful. Why do I want my files to be linked like that? How is it improving my life?
It was called Nepomuk, and I turned it off, then quickly turned it back on when I read about the project.
"NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange across social and organizational relations."
It's an interesting idea, but how does it work?
"The software generates semantic information by using "crawlers" to go through a computer and annotate as many files as possible. These crawlers look through a user's address book, for example, and search for files related to the people found in there. Nepomuk can then connect a file sent by a particular person with one related to the company that person works for, making Nepomuk a particularly useful way to search a computer, Bernardi says. "
Ah... that's a little creepy, to be honest. Nepomuk sifts through your address book then makes connections with files? It's like the CIA, busting your own bad self, and you voluntarily installed it.
It comes as a default app with KDE 4.2, but I still haven't seen how it could be useful. Why do I want my files to be linked like that? How is it improving my life?
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