Networked environment for personal ontology-based management of unified knowledge

Objective

Faced with an ever-increasing information flood in a complex and interconnected world, individual knowledge workers are in dire need for support in structuring their personal information space and maintaining fruitful communication and exchange within social networks across organizational boundaries. NEPOMUK develops technical support and stipulates and mobilizes community efforts to realize the Social Semantic Desktop.

This paradigm comprises a set of technical and methodological solutions for:
- supporting the knowledge life cycle via personal knowledge articulation support, embedding in personal work processes, and sharing, exchange and alignment across social networks
- cross-media and cross-application linking and browsing of information items based on standard semantic web data structures, together with un-intrusive metadata support
- knowledge communication within social networks and distributed search and storage to build, maintain, and employ inter-workspace relations in large scale distributed scenarios.

NEPOMUK realizes an open-source framework which allows integration of third-party components via pluggable adaptors and actively promotes this basic technology in open development communities. Industrial and community case studies apply, adapt and test the solution in knowledge work scenarios in different scales of distribution, organizational complexity, and application domains. The project delivers a freely available open-source framework for social semantic desktops, a rich set of standardized interfaces and reference implementations, and generic and domain-specific business opportunities based on the application experiences.

Field of science

• /natural sciences/computer and information sciences/internet/semantic web

Programme(s)

• FP6-IST - Information Society Technologies: thematic priority under the specific programme "Integrating and strengthening the European research area" (2002-2006).

Topic(s)

• IST-2004-2.4.7 - Semantic-based Knowledge and Content Systems

Funding Scheme

IP - Integrated Project

Coordinator

DEUTSCHES FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM FUER KUENSTLICHE INTELLIGENZ GMBH

Address

Trippstadter Strasse 122
67663 Kaiserslautern
Germany

Participants (15)

COGNIUM SYSTEMS

France

Address

32 Avenue Gambetta
78400 Chatou

ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE FEDERALE DE LAUSANNE

Switzerland

Address

Batiment Ce, Station 1
1015 Lausanne

EDGE-IT

France

Address

43 Rue D'aboukir
75002 Paris 02

FORSCHUNGSZENTRUM INFORMATIK AN DER UNIVERSITAET KARLSRUHE

Germany

Address

Haid-und-neu-strasse 10-14
76131 Karlsruhe

GOTTFRIED WILHELM LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITAET HANNOVER

Germany

Address

Welfengarten 1
30167 Hannover

HEWLETT-PACKARD GALWAY LIMITED

Ireland

Address

30 Herbert Street
Dublin 2

IBM IRELAND PRODUCT DISTRIBUTION LIMITED

Ireland

Address

Oldbrook House, 24-32 Pembroke Road, Ballsbridge
Dublin 4

INSTITUTE OF COMMUNICATION AND COMPUTER SYSTEMS

Greece

Address

Patission Street 42
10682 Athens

IRION MANAGEMENT CONSULTING GMBH

Germany

Address

Taegermoosstrasse 10
78462 Konstanz

KUNGLIGA TEKNISKA HOGSKOLAN

Sweden

Address

Valhallavagen 79
100 44 Stockholm

NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND, GALWAY

Ireland

Address

University Road -
Galway

PRC GROUP THE MANAGEMENT HOUSE ANONYMI ETAIRIA PAROKIS DIOIKITIKON EMPORIKON KAI TECHNOLOGIKON KAI PROIONTON

Greece

Address

Odos Panormou 74 Kai Larisis 35
11523 Athina

SAP AG

Germany

Address

Dietmar Hopp Allee 16
Walldorf

THALES

France

Address

45 Rue De Villiers
92200 Neuilly Sur Seine

UNIVERSITA DELLA SVIZZERA ITALIANA

Switzerland

Address

Via Lambertenghi 10 A
Lugano