Again gnowsis has advanced and the 0.8.2 release contains some interesting features, including a Joseki and SPARQL server and some bugfixes.

We are aware of the current movement towards sparql and have added SPARQL as a protocol to gnowsis using the ARQ/Joseki implementation. This can now be used in parallel to the existing URIQA interface, that has already been used by developers to talk to gnowsis.

Basically, gnowsis is a Semantic Desktop framework that integrates heterogenous data sources (files, outlook, imap servers, etc..) into a queryable and linkable RDF framework. It is programmed in Java and extends Jena. You can use it as a very big code sample of how to use Jena, install it and browse your own filesystem as an RDF graph, extract Concise Bounded Descriptions of resources and be happy with all the RDF.
Gnowsis is released under a BSD license and you are free to extend it.

The 0.8.2 release is mainly a bugfix and enhancement release of 0.8.1. We will now distribute gnowsis more frequently and move from our private cvs to a public visible subversion soon.

download gnowsis here:
https://www.gnowsis.org/Download

Changelog of 0.8.2:

* a new Joseki Server. Joseki is added using the hot joseki3 version from the latest CVS from sourceforge. Expect to make SERQL queries. documentation follows
* the service concepts has been improved
* gnowsis uses now Jena Modelmakers in central places. This allows to configure the search and central repository services to run either on database or on file models, in the future also NG4J
* Client interfaces made better.

What misses is decent documentation of the new features. If you are willing to contribute, please contact leo@gnowsis.com

If you are interested in gnowsis, don't hesitate to contact me,
may rdf:Resource be with you.

Leo Sauermann

note: jena schemagen omits entries for RDFS:classes when you do not pass the argument --rdfs. So when you search for missing class entries, try it.

version jena 2.2

tricky tricky, it used to do it, I think.

a quick and dirty tagging scheme - another reincarnation of the thing that is known as folksonomies. flickr, etc.
What I like about this one is that is wants to embrace "the web" as a whole.

an example tag, to get you started:

https://www.technorati.com/tag/www2005

a learning network for java.

might be useful sometime... we think about letting these babies run against our big graphs.

demogng

https://amb.vis.ne.jp/mozilla/scrapbook/
ScrapBook is a Firefox extension, which helps you to save Web pages and easily manage collections. Key features are lightness, speed, accuracy and multi-language support. Major features are:

* Save Web page
* Save snippet of Web page
* Save linked Web page
* Organize the collection in the same way as Bookmarks tree
* Full text search and quick filtering search of the collection
* Simple Editing of the collected Web page
* Text/HTML edit feature resembling Opera's Notes

and its got RDF

btw: one result of the Gnowsis VS Berlin hack was, that we agreed to use SPARQL protocol and language together with a nice named graph / URIQA interface for some gnowsis services. (gnowsis centralhub, gnowsis search and gnowsis registry). So this thing can better integrate with mindraider etc.

Second, I again see that the GUI of gnowsis should be seperated from the data services. We will do this probably by using the Eclipse RCP. Then we can also integrate foafme and gnowsis a little better. Looking forward to this one.

today i joined my foaf into the https://www.gargonza.org/ project. At the end, events like the foafcamp, the gnowsis VS Berlin hack or gargonza aim at the same goal: make the semantic thing fly and have fun doing it.

I hope to join their next session and I also hope that gnowsis supports SPARQL then (which is easy considered ARQ anyhow)

in some discussions here at my work we often discuss user interfaces, mSpace is a nice little demo.

Some people are like magnets, they are built to meet sometime. That is also true for me, leobard, and the Berlin Semantic Web group around Chris Bizer, Richard Cyganiak and Anja Jentzsch. We had to meet sometime, unavoidable.

Berlin work extending Jena is always good documented and nice little tools. gnowsis is a bigger tool to integrate them and have them in a user interface. As tools need some visualisation, this hack today was to plug together gnowsis and NG4J and D2RQ. We want to join forces to make the Semantic Web fly and the Semantic Desktop a part of it. The combattants in today's hack already gathered yesterday evening for a initial social drinking event at www.bergmann103.de that brought us closer together. Presents were exchanged and I gave flower necklaces to the natives.



The crew is:

• Anja Jentzsch
• Frank Wagner
• Oliver Maresch
• Ralf Jakob
• Richard Cyganiak
• me

Today we hacked some code together, and had some minor auccesses. I updated my foaf file.

The weather was great, Berlin charms me and Anja made many Pictures that we cannot hide from you.

Another great hack, that will be continued tomorrow, in the serices of gnowsis VS fenfire and gnowsis VS mindraider.

https://www.broom.org/epic/

hm. watch it.

nice flash, shivers down my spine, good rendering of the collective feelings around here. scary.

reminds me of "Snowcrash".