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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Manual tagging is just one of the sources envisioned here.
Manual tagging allows you to enhance meta data an relations by information that is closer to your way of thinking, thus allowing you to take this personal information into account when searching.
But semantic information can also be derived automatically, by the software handling your data.
The article offers the example of relating a file to the email it was saved from. Such an information can be added by the email program automatically on save.
Together with the also automatically derivable information about the email's sender (e.g. by indexing the emails), you can then search for the file by just knowing who sent it.
Proper integration into applications will ensure that (less) information is lost during operations.
Manual tagging can be used to add information not available to any of the involved applications, especially subjective values like "uhh, pretty!"