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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The thing is people already use folders and file names for this purpose. You have pictures/family/vacation/2001/franksallybeach22.jpg. Instead, it could be /personal/nice day.jpg tagged with family, vacation, vacation 2001, frank, sally, beach. Using folders for this purpose, you end up with extraordinarily long mazes with your information at the end, with very little flexibility in navigation. Using a meta approach is such a jump forward in every way, i really think people would jump on it, even though it is quite different.
I mean, look at flickr, facebook, gmail, digg, etc. People get tagging, they love tagging, and they use tagging. The technology is here for operating systems, and it boggles my mind that neither Apple or MS is moving forward with this.