Abstract
Effective support for knowledge work has to center on the activities and needs of the individual knowledge worker. The EU-funded project NEPOMUK realized a comprehensive work environment for improved personal knowledge work: the Social Semantic Desktop. Based on semantic web technology, the NEPOMUK Social Semantic Desktop allows access to information across various applications within a knowledge worker’s personal computer. It facilitates the interconnection, management, and ontology-based conceptual annotation of information items. Thus the knowledge worker is supported in maintaining a personal information model which can be (in whole or in part) shared and exchanged with colleagues and teams. NEPOMUK provides architecture blueprints, fundamental ontologies, and open-source reference implementations. The results have been successfully applied in various applications and are extended and commercialized in products and spin-off enterprises.
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NEPOMUK was performed 2006–2008 by 16 partners with funding by the FP6 program of the European Union. Further details and results are available at http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org
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However, there are non-standard representational languages with support for named graphs, such as Notation3 or TriG.
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It should be noted that PIMO does not try to model every possible world view and achieve ontological perfection, but instead proposes a simple classification that we consider useful in the context of knowledge work.
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This work was supported by the European Union IST fund (Grant FP6-027705, Project NEPOMUK, http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/) and the German BMBF in Project Perspecting (Grant 01IW08002).
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Bernardi, A., Grimnes, G.A., Groza, T., Scerri, S. (2011). The NEPOMUK Semantic Desktop. In: Warren, P., Davies, J., Simperl, E. (eds) Context and Semantics for Knowledge Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19510-5_13
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