Re: [xOperator-public] xOperator 0.1 (Semantic XMPP / Jabber Agent)

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Dmitry,
Of course the NEPOMUK is a good direction but the problem is more complex !
There are some foundations which must be taken into account for new
generation of the Web too. I mentioned some in the "To keep abreast of the
21st Century" paper - http://www.ototsky.mgn.ru/it/21abreast.htm .
And mentioned in the paper the VSM is included  already in a list of Upper
Ontologies on the ONTOLOG Portal -
http://colab.cim3.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?OntologyTaxonomyCoordinatingWG/PointerPage
(See #10 in the Existing Upper Ontologies part).

Best,
Leonid Ototsky - http://ototsky.mgn.ru/it


> Hello all,
>
> I think, that xOperator is an amazing project, but I have an idea. Where
> are
> different useful projects already exist for personal usage (ala semantic
> desktop vision): Zotero [1], DBin [2], Gnowsis [3], Soprano (NEPOMUK
> reference implementation for KDE) [4] and others. But it's impossible to
> use
> RDF data from one application in another. We doesn't have something like a
> 'semantic system' for RDF by analogy with the file system for ordinal
> files.
>
> We'll take a lot of benefits if we start to use a 'semantic system'
> through
> a language, RDF storage and/or platform independent interface. We have
> examples of such attempts: semap's HTTP protocol [5] (doesn't independent
> from the Sesame RDF storage), Soprano API [6] (doesn't have a language and
> platform independence). I have just developed my own RESTful API from
> scratch [7] too. On top of such semantic systems we'll can to implement
> numerous useful semantic agents and information from one agent will be
> available in another immediately. It's like the old WinFS [8] idea in a
> new
> RDF-based point of view ;)
>
> NEPOMUK [9] is a great European initiative to implement the semantic
> desktop
> vision, but it doesn't try to create a general semantic system. What do
> you
> think about it? Do you know similar ideas or projects?
>
> [1] http://www.zotero.org/
> [2] http://dbin.org/
> [3] http://www.gnowsis.org/
> [4] http://soprano.sourceforge.net/node/1
> [5] http://www.openrdf.org/doc/sesame/users/ch08.html
> [6] http://api.kde.org/kdesupport-api/kdesupport-apidocs/soprano/html/
> [7] http://code.google.com/p/semap/wiki/RESTfulAPISpecification
> [8] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinFS
> [9] http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main1/
>
> On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 9:55 PM, Sebastian Dietzold <
> die...@in...> wrote:
>
>>
>> Hi all,
>>
>> The AKSW research group (http://aksw.org) is pleased to announce the
>> first
>> public release of our semantic xmpp / jabber agent xOperator.
>>
>> xOperator combines advantages of social network websites with instant
>> messaging. It tries to be a semantic agent for xmpp / jabber network
>> which
>> finds and shares content about resources (using RDF / SPARQL) for you
>> and
>> your jabber friends.
>>
>> This first release includes the following features:
>>
>> * basic xmpp account management (user account, proxy account)
>> * management of query templates, datastores and namespaces directly with
>>   your jabber client
>> * simple query templates for easy starting with xOperator
>> * query scripts in groovy for advanced queries and post processing
>>
>> Homepage:     http://aksw.org/Projects/xOperator
>> ZIP/Tar/BZ2 <http://aksw.org/Projects/xOperatorZIP/Tar/BZ2>:
>> http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=201552
>> Changelog:    http://aksw.org/Projects/xOperator/ChangeLog
>> Mailing list: http://sourceforge.net/mail/?group_id
>>
>> Inspired by Tim Berners-Lee's Semantic Agent the xOperator lifts
>> personal
>> knowledge exchange to a new level. Imagine sharing exactly the
>> information
>> you want with the people you trust. Need a phone number? Want to know
>> the
>> birthday of your best friends girlfriend (and in a second step where to
>> buy her a present in a store near you)? Do you get tired to tell
>> everybody
>> that you have a new cellphone number? xOperator enables users to share
>> all
>> that knowledge in a trusted network. Built upon the already existing
>> jabber network (secure connections, widely available) an agent running
>> on
>> your pc allows other users to query your RDF-database returning the
>> favor
>> to you.
>>
>> --
>> Sebastian Dietzold - Department of Computer Science; University of
>> Leipzig
>> Tel/Fax: +49 341 97 323-66/-29
>> http://bis.uni-leipzig.de/SebastianDietzold
>
>
>
>
> --
> Dmitry Ulanov
> dulanov(at)gmail.com
> http://dulanov.wordpress.com
>