Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sat 14th Jul 2007 20:06 UTC, submitted by AdamW
"PC users have volumes of information saved on their computers, most of it disconnected and disparate save for a basic directory system. The answer to connecting all the information into a local semantic Web of information is closer than you might think. Thanks to the open source NEPOMUK (Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge) effort, the Semantic Desktop isn't a dream; it's an emerging reality and will be here with the upcoming release of KDE 4 for the Linux desktop."
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2006-02-05
From the very first mention of spotlight, I have been waiting for people using DB file systems to actually start innovating on the same tired ideas we have been using for years now. At first, I was sure Apple would give it to us, as they tend to lead the way in such things. Instead, we have just gotten better and better searches with spotlight. Then MS starts talking about all the cool new things they will do with it, and I thought "Man, what a slap in the face for apple, to be beaten to the punch for once by MS". Instead, we got something that is significantly WORSE then spotlight. Then beagle gets announced, I try it out, and it seems like a simple "Me Too" type of technology that will forever be a few generations behind the other two.
Fast forward a few years, and its Linux who is leading the way. I honestly didn't think it would happen, but we are seeing far more progress on this front with NEPOMUK then with anything else. I still cant wait for the day when folders are no longer used in place of metadata, allowing for fairly flat filesystems, and file names are only one of many identifiers for what you are looking for, but at this point any step in that direction is reason for celebration.