An enduser s perspective on application management. And since the semantic desktop is something a user should not have to know is there, having less apparent options is a good thing. Login to access software and per diem downloads, as well as documentation. Sap businessobjects restful web service sdk user guide for web intelligence and the bi semantic layer 4. Improving personal information management by integrating.
Nepomuk is an opensource software specification that is concerned with the development of a social semantic desktop that enriches and interconnects. In computer science, the semantic desktop is a collective term for ideas related to changing a computers user interface and data handling capabilities so that. In preparation for the upcoming release of the enduser software in the second quater next year, we are proud to announce that our semantic web development platform for. In such cases, users are forced to wade through cluttered desktops full of multiple. It is important that you read this document before using the altovaprovided software software and any accompanying documentation, including, without limitation printed materials, online files, or electronic documentation documentation. Wonderdesk a semantic desktop for resource sharing and management 3 it is typical but not required to use wonderdesk peers combined with wonderserver. Authoring and using ontologies for personal information management is not enough, in the gnowsis project we aimed at bringing the ontology into the daily applications of the end user. The end user will not be aware of the systems and subsystems that are working to make sure all of their components can communicate with one another. Network elements snmp agents network management console used by a network manager status events control.
The content, including previous revisions, is usually stored in either a file system or a database. Semantic mediawiki is an extension to the mediawiki software powering wikipedia, which extends the wiki with ideas from the semantic web. Such enduser application development would let them create workspaces. End user application development for the semantic web karun bakshi and david r. Wonderdesk a semantic desktop for resource sharing and. The gnowsis semantic desktop for information integration. This release is primarily for semantic web and ai researchers for now in other words, its still earlystage software not intended for enduser consumersyet but for researchers iris provides what may be the most comprehensive, robust development platform for building nextgeneration learning applications that help people work. Semantic versioning for desktop applications duplicate ask question. This is in contrast to physical hardware, from which the system is built and actually performs the work. Used by half of the fortune 100, quick base is the fastest, easiest and most flexible way for growing companies to create and manage data, regardless of location or industry. Information delivery to the end user on the semantic web.
Nov 15, 20 semantic document architecture for desktop data integration and management doctoral dissertation submitted to the faculty of informatics of the universita della svizzera italiana in partial ful. In preparation for the upcoming release of the end user software in the second quater next year, we are proud to announce that our semantic web development platform for. For dependencies semantic versioning is great because it gives a reasonable basis of compatibility. Enduser computing is a class of technology that allows nonprogrammers to achieve results that traditionally would have required help from a programmer. Given the importance of the installationrequirements of an application to installerusers, i propose that semver be used to version enduser applications using the. May 19, 2017 end user computing is a class of technology that allows nonprogrammers to achieve results that traditionally would have required help from a programmer. Semantic document architecture for desktop data integration and management. Enduser application development for the semantic web ceur.
Please see the publication mentioned below for details. The semantic software lab was founded in 2008 by rene witte at concordia university in montreal, quebec, canada. Commitment of many users is required therefore proper management is a must here. I adapted semantic versioning for desktop or web applications, so in our work we are using. From our research we concluded that some mashup tools are not really simple enough to handle and st ill require endusers to have a computer.
Peeling back 3 layers of bi and analytics software find. Semantic query expansion based on users context and semantic annotations social semantic collaborative filtering. Peeling back 3 layers of bi and analytics software find it ez. In this paper we present lessons learned from building a semantic desktop system, the gnowsis beta. This layer is a prerequisite for some wsywig, drag and drop design reporting tools. Sap businessobjects web intelligence ui extension points javascript api reference 4. Metadesk places no restrictions on vocabularyusers can invent terms onthefly, which the system converts into underlying rdf structures. The networked semantic desktop as envisioned in 4 describes a networked infrastructure that combines the semantic desktop with social networking and p2p systems to benefit novel applications. Taking into account contemporary trends it will have a form of ontology.
Mutual development 24 is a technique where professional developers and end user developers work together in creating software solutions. Quick base is a webbased platform from which workgroups can easily create unlimited customizable applications to control data. Based on the needs and expectations of users today the software. We can behold the typical scenario as an implementation of hybrid p2p architecture 7, in which wonderserver acts as a super node. Our lab focuses on research and applications of semantic computing, text mining, linked data, natural language processing nlp, information extraction, intelligent information systems, and related technologies. The approach was evaluated in enduser experiments in order to. Sauermann l, bernardi a, dengel a 2005 overview and outlook on the semantic desktop, proceedings of the 1 st semantic desktop workshop, 2005. User problems and practices with modern desktop systems. Z is increasing if a release contains just a bug fix, dependencies update or some application internal changes, so no new functionality introduced to user. Request pdf towards an ontologybased solution for managing license agreement using semantic desktop whenever software is installed on a computer system, one has to agree to the enduser. Wiki software can let users store data via the wiki, in a way that can be exported via the semantic web, or queried internally within the wiki. Semver semantic versioning, aka semver is a scheme for. Download scientific diagram a typical semantic desktop application user.
Nepomuks software is available for several computer platforms and now. Here are a list of useful links in the context of the semantic desktop. Semantic links can be established between the semantically related document data units, whether they are stored on the same personal desktop or shared within social networks. Which applications in what versions are installed on the endusers machine, e. Software engineering stack exchange is a question and answer site for professionals, academics, and students working within the systems development life cycle. Yesterday, the first public opensource release of open iris was annnounced. Open semantic desktop search is the all in one package for desktop users as.
Opening up semantic search to ordinary users computerworld. Semantic documents enable unique identification, semantic annotation, and semantic linking of finegrained units of documents data. Semantic assistants support users in content retrieval, analysis, and development, by offering contextsensitive nlp services directly integrated in standard desktop clients, like a word processor, and web information systems, like a wiki. I say reasonable basis because just because its a minorpatch change doesnt mean it wont break your code. Platform for authoring end user semantic web applications.
End user development eud can be defined as a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as nonprofessional software developers, at some point to create, modify or extend a software artefact. Our approach to ontologies, the personal information model pimo allows to create tagging services like del. Sap businessobjects web intelligence ui extension points javascript reference 4. Unanet is a leading provider of erp solutions purposebuilt for government contractors, ae, and professional services. The innovation under the hood in simantics is its semantic data model used for practically everything from 2d graphics to modelling data and model domain mappings the database server. Open semantic desktop search free software downloads and. Nova spivackopen iris semantic desktop pim released. Semantic links can be established between the semantically related document data units, whether they are stored on the same. The term semantic desktop itself was coined by stefan decker and picked up. As an onpremises, hybrid, or cloudbased solution, the singleagent symantec platform protects all your traditional and mobile endpoint devices, and uses artificial intelligence ai to optimize security decisions. The current bestknown semantic wiki software is semantic mediawiki, a plugin to mediawiki.
The semantic desktop is a perfect next evolution of the kde desktop. This requires specialized environments and tools that allow users to change things with technical aspects such as management of computing resources handled automatically. Sap businessobjects web intelligence sap help portal. First, a framework for knowledge representation should be created. The javabased implementation of nepomuk was finished at the end of 2008. Simsem is a tool for semantic disambiguation using approximate string matching and is distributed under the restrictions of the isc license. Moreover, an increasing number of diverse enduser desktop applications have led to the problem of information fragmentation. Semantic document architecture for desktop data integration.
The semantic layer is configured by a person who has knowledge of both the data store and the reporting needs of the business. For the twitter mobile app and desktop app, the installer is usually the enduser. The sile model a semantic file system infrastructure for the. Sds, instead, aims to satisfy the needs of the nontechnical end. In the server configuration dialog, set sql server browser startup type to be automatic as shown in the image. As the joke goes, this is the year of gnulinux on the desktop just like last year, and the year before that. Lets you store and query data within the wikis pages. In the feature, section dialog unchecks sql server replication, machine learning services, r, python, fulltext and semantic extractions. Free software for your own desktop search engine with integrated text analysis. Himss march 25, 2019 newly established definitions for interoperability states. Enduser application development for the semantic web karun bakshi and david r. This software license agreement agreement is a legal document between you and altova gmbh altova.
The innovation under the hood in simantics is its semantic data model used for practically everything from 2d graphics to modelling data and model domain mappings. Oct 17, 2018 a semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps nontechnical end users access data using common business terms. Overview and outlook on the semantic desktop semantic scholar. Enduser development eud or enduser programming eup refers to activities and tools that allow endusers people who are not professional software developers to program computers. The new platform and application concept has been in the making for over three years now and is already pretty mature. Metadesk is an rdf authoring tool that emphasizes entry of facts, rather than construction of ontologies.
Request pdf towards an ontologybased solution for managing license agreement using semantic desktop whenever software is installed on a computer system, one has to agree to the end user. Pdf semantic document architecture for desktop data. Wiki software also known as a wiki engine or wiki application is collaborative software that runs a wiki, which allows users to create and collaboratively edit pages or entries via a web browser. The zeitgeist framework, used by gnome and ubuntus unity user interface, uses the. This website represents the entry point to the semantic desktop related activities. Interoperability is the ability of different information systems, devices or applications to connect, in a coordinated manner, within and across organizational boundaries to access, exchange and cooperatively use data amongst stakeholders, with the goal of optimizing the health of individuals and populations. The gnowsis experience, proceedings of the iswc pp. Given the importance of the installationrequirements of an application to installer users, i propose that semver be used to version enduser applications using the. Aug 18, 2010 and since the semantic desktop is something a user should not have to know is there, having less apparent options is a good thing. Mehdi jazayeri november 2010 dissertation committee prof.
Iris is a javabased desktop semantic personal information manager developed by sri with help from my own company, radar networks we provided a some of our early semantic object libraries and a native triplestore, and some work on ui. On desktop computers, semantic software has to provide stable services and has to reflect the personal view of the user. Commitment of many users is required therefore proper management is a. Symantec endpoint security delivers the most complete, integrated endpoint security platform on the planet. Akin is a new powerful semantic fuzzy desktop search application designed to save you time and significantly reduce the stress of managing and recalling your information. Similarly, semantic search the idea that systems can apply intelligence. In computer science and software engineering, computer software is all information processed by computer systems, programs and data. File system application program interface semantic annotation path attribute. Information delivery for the end user of the semantic web 165 browsing. People who are not professional developers can use eud tools to create or modify software artifacts descriptions of automated behavior and complex data objects without significant knowledge of a. Semantic versioning for enduser applications brett uglow medium. Here is a short description of the main ideas behind gnowsis. A core idea of a social semantic desktop vision is to enable semantic integration and data interoperability on the personal desktop by applying semantic web technologies, and to connect data from personal desktops into a uni.
The platform contains graphical client software built on eclipse software framework and a database server for holding all the data. Enduser development eud can be defined as a set of methods, techniques, and tools that allow users of software systems, who are acting as nonprofessional software developers, at some point to create, modify or extend a software artefact. Semantic versioning for desktop applications software engineering. A semantic layer is a business representation of corporate data that helps nontechnical end users access data using common. An endusers perspective on application management if some component is not available for an interaction, what is the most ef. End users have specific goals in their own domains, which are not related to software development. To accomplish this simsem uses large collections of strings such as dictionaries, liblinear as its machinelearning component and simstring for fast approximate string matching. Investigateix integrates open semantic desktop as preconfigured search engine and desktop environment with an linux livesystem on an encrypted external device like an usb key or an external harddisk for end users with sensible data and enhanced privacy needs like investigative journalists without dedicated server or laptop and for unhosted searching. The semantic software lab, concordia university, montreal. The semantic desktop sd 18 is especially intended to capture knowledge that emerges from individuals and then spreads into groups like project teams. Download metadesk a semantic desktop manager for free. This work is made available under the terms of nepomuk software license and the oscaf license. The gnowsis semantic desktop approach to personal information. Towards an ontologybased solution for managing license.