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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. Re:Care to explain? by Dynedain · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I've got a better reason why it failed that doesn't require delving into first year philosophy.

    People are lazy. Look at any image database and figure out why it's difficult to find something. Because people don't want to spend 20 minutes filling in tags for a single image they just want to show off to their friends.

    Now expand that to every other form of data type, and its easy to see why the semantic web never did, and never will take off without significant AI involvement.

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  2. Re:Horrible name. by Znork · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Yep, that was my first thought as well. Quickly followed by wondering if 'into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange across social and organizational relations' was some kind of euphemism for, eh, group pr0n of some kind.

    Oh, well, either they have much less dirty minds than mine, or someone's desire for well-indexed pr0n browsing has gotten slightly out of hand.