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Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead

Posted by timothy on from the semantic-researchers-play-better-tag dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review has a story looking at Nepomuk — the semantic tool that is bundled with the latest version of KDE. It seems that some Semantic Web researchers believe the tool will prove a breakthrough for semantic technology. By encouraging people to add semantic meta-data to the information stored on their machines they hope it could succeed where other semantic tools have failed."

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  1. Um, no thanks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    I've tried Symantec products in the past, and they are worse than actually having a virus. They slow your PC to a crawl, get their claws into every part of your computer, and are extremely difficult to purge when you finally give up on them.

  2. Re:Horrible name. by Cornwallis · · Score: 4, Funny

    Agreed. They ought to call it NepoGIMP. Now that's a name.

  3. On the brighter side... by Cyberax · · Score: 4, Funny

    It's not as bad as GIMP :)

  4. Re:Horrible name. by shadwstalkr · · Score: 4, Funny

    Yes, I know that Nepomuk means "Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge" as stated in the article.

    I assumed it was KumOpen (come open) backwards. I think the real acronym is even stupider than that.