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[[Image:Nepomuk-KDE-Logo.png]]

=== Introduction ===
NEPOMUK - The Social Semantic Desktop - is funded by the European Community
under FP6-027705 IST. The overall project goal is to extend the personal
computer into a collaborative environment, focusing on personal data
management and the provisioning of information, potentially involving
online collaboration by individuals or groups.
The desktop aspect of the project is where
[http://nepomuk-kde.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/ Nepomuk-KDE]
comes in:
a freely and widely available platform which contains the NEPOMUK results.

=== Ontologies ===
Desktop ontologies define whom a file belongs to, what rating a user assigns
to it and which people are related to the file or contents thereof.
While adding all the semantic metadata is a tedious task, there is a reward
once it is present: Searching for specific information becomes a lot more
accurate and to the point. Nepomuk-KDE uses
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/soprano Soprano] to access
ontologies stored in RDF (resource description format).

=== Strigi ===
[http://www.vandenoever.info/software/strigi/ Strigi]
is a search engine which will be present in the upcoming KDE 4.
With the advent of Nepomuk-KDE, Strigi has access to desktop ontologies.
Rapid access to information is one of the goals of this integration,
which is depicted in the following diagram.

[[Image:Nepomuk-Architecture.png]]

=== Demonstration ===
Nepomuk technologies have been integrated into KDE starting KDE 4.0. 4.2 will feature more integration.

=== More information ===
More information on the project work and results can be found at:
[http://nepomuk.kde.org/ nepomuk.kde.org]