Harvesting Desktop Data for Semantic Blogging [Writing & Journalism]

Harvesting Desktop Data for Semantic Blogging [Writing & Journalism]

Harvesting Desktop Data for Semantic Blogging
By Knud Moller and Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway

Publisher: National University of Ireland, Galway
Number Of Pages: 13
Publication Date: 2005-10
Binding: pdf

Abstract.
A typical computer user¡¯s desktop contains large amount of formal data, such as addresses, events or bibliopraphies. Especially within a corporate or organizational environment, it is often important to exchange this data between employees. However, state-of-the-art communication technologies such as email or bulletin boards don¡¯t allow to easily integrate desktop data in the communication process, with the effect that the data remains locked within a user¡¯s computer. In this paper, we propose that the recent phenomenon of blogging, combined with a tool to easily generate Semantic Web (SW) data from existing formal desktop data, can result in a form of semantic blogging which would help to overcome the aforementioned problem. We discuss a number of preconditions which must be met in order to allow semantic blogging and encourage users to author a semantic blog, and we present a prototype of the semiBlog editor, which was created with the purpose of user-friendly semantic blogging in mind. We argue that such a semantic blog editor should integrate tightly with a user¡¯s desktop environment, as this would make integration of existing data into the blog as easy as possible.

Harvesting Desktop Data for Semantic Blogging
Knud Moller and Stefan Decker, DERI, National University of Ireland, Galway
13 page OCR-Quality pdf 1.1 MB
2005-10
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