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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2005-07-06
I think it would be fairly easy to emulate folders using a metadata-based system. For the end user everything could look as usual, while under the hood a folder is implemented as a query for files with some specific attributes.