"Knowledge revolution". And so it begun! It's Called NEPOMUK !

I have been preaching to friends and technology mates from some time ago that one day a pure P2P, Artificially Knowledge and Open Source Operating System will replace our actual OS and that it would be doing several tasks automatically (on a intelligence base) regarding our information management, search, sharing and what ever we do today regarding the information that makes part of our beings as live and digital entities. That I believe one day, the computer that already is, will be, day after day a "real" "me" extension. That would be the "Knowledge revolution", that would overcome the Information era we have been living in.

Today, after two weeks of using one of the so called recent web 3.0 (web 2.0 + semantics + etc.) web site, the twine, I found this interesting open source "Social Semantics Desktop", the NEPOMUK Project. Their goal doesn't surprises me:

"NEPOMUK intends to realize and deploy a comprehensive solution ? methods, data structures, and a set of tools ? for extending the personal computer into a collaborative environment, which improves the state of art in online collaboration and personal data management and augments the intellect of people by providing and organizing information created by single or group efforts."

What makes this a revolutions isn't the semantics, neither ontologies or whatever knowledge techies in "commercial fashion", in my opinion. Its all that on your PERSONAL computer added with a what-it-seems minor features at this time: the P2P system and the thirdparty components via pluggable adaptors.

Take a read on their Synopsis:

"...NEPOMUK realizes an open-source framework which allows integration of thirdparty components via pluggable adaptors. The core components and approaches will be actively promoted in open development communities in order to reach an early large-scale uptake and feedback..."

NEPOMUK brings together researchers, industrial software developers, and representative industrial users, to develop a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both the personal information management and the sharing and exchange across social and organizational relations.

Read more at NEPOMUK Project Online

And in an article in internetnews.com about NEPOMUK:

"Mandriva is an active participant in the NEPOMUK effort along with HP, IBM, SAP and others. Among the ways that Mandriva expects to take advantage of the Semantic Desktop include a community help desk system and a P2P framework for the exchange of data and information. "

Original URL: Open Source Semantic Desktop Is Coming

Yes I know, the article date is 13th July 2007, one year old and so is (actually one more year old) NEPOMUK project. But does it really make it old? I don't think so. "Personal Computer" never made so much sense to me than it does now. It's the future and so it begun!