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iris: open your eyes to the future of the desktop
Iris is a java open source source integrated desktop environment including email, calendar, file browser, web browser, chat, and a data mining toolkit (clustering, indexing, and lots more).
Currently it only runs on windows, probably as they have some binary dependance on mozilla. So as I have not yet bought a new PowerBook, I can't try it out yet. I'd be interested to hear feedback from those who can.
The application is built on the well known Jena Semantic Web library. It used to be linked to the CALO (Cognitive Assistant that Learns and Organizes) AI project (see reply). So the whole thing is very intriguing.
Looking at the pictures it seems clearly to be a research project in the possibilities of working with metadata., and a test bed for new such ideas. This is probably a good place to get a preview of what is to come, when every Operating System ships with an inbuilt Semantic Web database always in sync with the local file system, and, via Atom feeds, to the remote file system we call the web.
It will be interesting for me to compare this with BlogEd, which also uses a Semantic Web database (Sesame) to store its information. As I move onto my next version of BlogEd, I am discovering that dealing with remote data, triples are not enough - one needs quads (also known as graphs) to keep track of where information was gathered from, so that one can later remove collections of triples if one no longer trusts the source, or if the source changes.
See also: Limitations of iPhoto.
Posted at 02:10PM Jul 05, 2006 [permalink/trackback] by Henry Story in SemWeb |
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