Nepomuk Brings Semantic Web To the Desktop, Instead

An anonymous reader writes "Technology Review has a story looking at Nepomuk — the semantic tool that is bundled with the latest version of KDE. It seems that some Semantic Web researchers believe the tool will prove a breakthrough for semantic technology. By encouraging people to add semantic meta-data to the information stored on their machines they hope it could succeed where other semantic tools have failed."

Um, no thanks

[Anonymous Coward]

I've tried Symantec products in the past, and they are worse than actually having a virus. They slow your PC to a crawl, get their claws into every part of your computer, and are extremely difficult to purge when you finally give up on them.

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On the brighter side...

[Cyberax]

It's not as bad as GIMP :)

Re:Horrible name.

[shadwstalkr]

Yes, I know that Nepomuk means "Networked Environment for Personalized, Ontology-based Management of Unified Knowledge" as stated in the article.

I assumed it was KumOpen (come open) backwards. I think the real acronym is even stupider than that.

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[maxwell demon]

1) Everything must be tagged.

Easy: Just have a bot add "untagged" tags to everything not yet tagged. Then it's tagged, because it's tagged "untagged".

2) Information must be TRUE (otherwise you will get bad deductions).

Also easy: Just remove all wrong information before making your deduction. OK, so how is the computer to know what is wrong? Well, that's of course again semantic information, so just tag anything wrong as "wrong". If some "wrong" tagging happens to be wrong, you can still tag that as "wrong" as well.

3) Ontologies, that is schemas stating what IT IS, should be shared (please don't die laughing)

Just upload them onto any p2p network. Sharing is what they are for, aren't they?

3) Not all "SCHEMAS" can be deductible (the complexity of what you state is a huge COMPUTATIONAL problem).

Well, if the software gets stuck, it still can ask a human.

Note to the humour impaired: Imagine a smiley after each sentence!

Re:Um, no thanks

[pitchpipe]

You sound like an anti-Semitic asshole to me. ;^)