Semantically Enabled Personal Information ... - I-Semantics
Semantically Enabled Personal Information ... - I-Semantics
Semantically Enabled Personal Information ... - I-Semantics
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<strong>Semantically</strong> <strong>Enabled</strong><br />
<strong>Personal</strong> <strong>Information</strong><br />
Management with<br />
Cluug.com<br />
Bernhard Schandl<br />
CTO, Gnowsis.com
The usual situation<br />
Email<br />
Calendar<br />
Contacts<br />
Files
Isn’t a (desktop) search<br />
engine enough?<br />
Search<br />
ok
Files<br />
Documents<br />
Private<br />
Projects<br />
CID<br />
Research
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Key Activities<br />
Filing<br />
Finding<br />
Organizing
PIM Tools<br />
• PIM Suites: Outlook, Thunderbird, Apple, ...<br />
• Mind mapping: MindManager, Freemind, ...<br />
• Note taking: Evernote, OneNote, ...<br />
• (Desktop) Search Engines: Windows,<br />
Google, Spotlight, ...
What is missing?<br />
• Storage, but no management<br />
• No “intelligence”<br />
• <strong>Information</strong> silos<br />
• Data, but no context<br />
• Items do not connect<br />
• Things go in but don’t come out
The Missing Link<br />
Email<br />
Calendar<br />
Contacts<br />
Files
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• Cluug identifies, reads, and<br />
understands your information<br />
items: Emails, Files, Contacts,<br />
Appointments, Web pages, ...<br />
• Cluug allows you to connect them<br />
to each other and to relate them<br />
to Projects, Tasks, Topics, etc.<br />
• Cluug gives you recommendations<br />
for potentially relevant items —<br />
no need to search or navigate any<br />
more!
Cluug Platform<br />
• The Cluug Platform is a SaaS Service on the<br />
Web — using Cluug means having an<br />
account for this platform.<br />
• Metadata (and fulltext, if applicable) are<br />
extracted and sent to the platform —<br />
analysis, recommendations, storage, indexes<br />
are done there.<br />
• The Cluug Web application provides search,<br />
navigation, and annotation.
Semantic Technologies<br />
in Cluug<br />
• “Things” are identified by URIs.<br />
• RDF is the core data exchange format.<br />
• RDF-based tools like Aperture for content<br />
extraction.<br />
• Things are analyzed and matched against<br />
already existing things.<br />
• External data sources are used to<br />
recommend new, unknown items and<br />
entities.
we will meet there to prepare the CID project meeting
Cluug and Linked Data<br />
• Cluug uses Linked Data sources (e.g.,<br />
DBpedia) to discover potentially interesting<br />
entities.<br />
• Cluug provides a Linked Data view on a<br />
person’s entire information sphere:<br />
• Things have stable, globally valid URIs.<br />
• RDF descriptions are available.<br />
• Things are linked to each other, and to<br />
external data sources.
Cluug Integration<br />
• Cluug integrates tightly into end user<br />
applications.<br />
• This integration significantly increases the<br />
individual’s productivity — the need to<br />
search and navigate is reduced.<br />
• Desktop: Windows Explorer, Outlook, MS<br />
Office, Web Browser, ...<br />
• Web 2.0 platforms<br />
• Mobile platforms
Connecting Data and Things<br />
• Cluug provides a model for the<br />
representation of physical data that is<br />
associated to logical things.<br />
• Data can be directly referenced and<br />
accessed in their native applications.<br />
• For items that have no “native” URL, Cluug<br />
provides a URL schema and an extensible<br />
URL handler.
Cluug for Developers<br />
• Cluug provides two APIs:<br />
• Extractor & Recommender API: integrate<br />
content analysis, extraction, and<br />
recommendation components.<br />
• Connector & Client API: talk to Cluug services<br />
from applications, create and update things,<br />
search, get recommendations.<br />
• Both are based on REST principles, RDF<br />
serialization, OAuth authentication.<br />
• Clients for Python, C# (Java and PHP upcoming).
Current State<br />
• Cluug is currently in transition from alpha<br />
to beta.<br />
• We will start to give away connectors for<br />
Explorer, Outlook, and Firefox soon.<br />
• Contact us if you want to participate!<br />
• Your feedback is highly appreciated!
Roadmap<br />
• Cluug Version 2: Social Services<br />
• Create groups and invite people<br />
• Share selected things with your<br />
colleagues<br />
• Links, recommendations, annotations<br />
across all things from groups you are<br />
member of<br />
• Cluug Version 3: Desktop Sync Services
What We Search For<br />
• Do you have analysis / extraction /<br />
recommendation services that rock?<br />
• Do you have applications that you would<br />
like connect to Cluug?<br />
• Do you want to develop applications or<br />
services on top of Cluug data?<br />
• Do you want to evaluate Cluug in your<br />
organization?<br />
Let us know!
Thank you!<br />
Bernhard Schandl<br />
CTO & Research<br />
✉<br />
bernhard.schandl@gnowsis.com<br />
http://www.gnowsis.com<br />
http://www.cluug.com<br />
twitter.com/besbes<br />
twitter.com/gnowsiscom<br />
twitter.com/cluug
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