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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2005-11-10
I'm pretty much in agreement with that. During Vista development, I was really put off by Microsoft dropping meta data for everything but Office files. Losing WinFS and then any semblance of meta cut the heart out of the new Explorer. Now Apple may have delivered detailed meta searching (and decent saved searches), but there is still no up front way of tagging and editing meta on the filesystem, and this is where NEPOMUK is stepping up the game.
My only real concern is that It's going to be near impossible to breakdown the desktop/folder metaphor that everybody is so used to, and go fully meta.