Although I work much, I also go to after work church.

Here is their lovely website, with a pic of me and Daniel drinking wine, Ingrid was also there.

The knowledge management lab at DFKI, Kaiserslautern releases the Gnowsis Beta 0.9 Technological Preview today!

Gnowsis is a tool for realising the Semantic Desktop - a desktop where all your data is inter-linked and related. Gnowsis gives you a tool for structuring your data as well as your thoughts!

Gnowsis 0.9 is a brand new release of Gnowsis. The Beta 0.9 Technological Preview is a first release for other developers to look at the technolocigal changes. For End-Users, this release does not offer much. The core idea of Gnowsis remains but most of what goes on underneath the interface has been re-engineered. In the new Gnowsis we have thought longer and harder about our use of ontologies, our use of desktop applications as RDF datasources, and the separation of a user's data and his mental model of the same. The result is a new cleaner, faster and happier Gnowsis!

Some of the new features of Gnowsis 0.9 include:

• Integration with Aperture for easy integration of the data in the applications you already use on your desktop!
• A new approach to personal information management. We call it your PIMO
• Integration with Kaukolu Wiki.
• Quick and easy full-text searching of all your data using Lucene.

Download:

• http://www.gnowsis.org/statisch/download/gnowsis_0.9.0.zip

Documentation:

• doc

Gnowsis 0.9 runs on Windows, Linux and Macosx. Download zip, or MacOSX image here: downloadlink.

Heute, Sonntag 5.März 2006 waren Ingrid und ich im Pfälzer Wald snowboarden. Das Wetter war zu gut fürs Fitnesscenter.

Dieses mal waren wir snow-towing in Kaiserslautern machen. Samstag, 4.3.2006 auf dem Messeparkplatz in Kaiserslautern.

Viel Platz dort und genug Schnee zum Snow-towing.
mehr photos bei flickr
video gibts auch:

the first screenshot of gnowsis in combination with the semantic wiki.

This screenshot shows how kaukoluwiki and the gnowsis-beta work together.

A wiki-page just created using the JSP-wiki clone kaukoluwiki shows up in the gnowsis swing gui and vice versa.

The trick behind: both graphical user interfaces access the same data, stored using the PIMO-ontology and available in a sesame2 store.

semantic web rocks, semantic desktop rolls!

Just started sesame1 inside our gnowsis beta 0.9 which runs under sesame 2.0 alpha 3.

So this weird picture puzzles me: It says we have a web-interface for sesame 2.0 alpha 3. Note, that no one ever programmed this web-interface. It was just there. yeah!

I re-launched my website using rdf-homepage, our cuper-cool rdf hack of DFKI to generate homepages using RDF and php.

See yourself the beauty of my new website, that is generated from about 10 different rdf files, including:

• my foaf file
• our organisational rdf model (DFKI organisational structure as rdf)
• an rdfhomepage config file
• my bibtex file
• my bibtex file as RDF/bibtex

to make this magic work yourself, checkout our big-hack at
rdfhomepage.

So here it is official . Mandrive Linux, with Cognium System as Partner has joined the Nepomuk Social Semantic Desktop project.
This project will rock the world, changing the way people interact with computers and socialise.

Basically, this is the thing we have been working on for years and I am happy to also be part of this project.

Read the webpages at http://nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/ and checkout the people involved with it.

The landscape of open source speech synthesizers is growing richer. The
German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), partner in
the Network of Excellence HUMAINE on emotion-oriented computing, has
decided to release its emotional text-to-speech synthesis system MARY as
open source.

The system can be downloaded from http://mary.dfki.de

MARY is a multi-lingual (German, English, Tibetan) and multi-platform
(Windows, Linux, MacOs X and Solaris) speech synthesis system. It comes
with an easy-to-use installer -- no technical expertise should be
required for installation.


What i liked best is the emotional speaking plugin to play around. Brings up a feeling of c64 speech synthesis but with emotional blendings, great thing to automatically generate the swearword of the day or to motivate yourself by letting mary say how wonderful your work is, repeating for hours.

http://cling.dfki.uni-sb.de/emospeak

Just forwarded to my by Frank Osterfeld:

http://www.chipx86.com/blog/?p=154

Announcing Leaftag, our desktop tagging framework. This is an evolution of the original prototype we created, originally named fstaglib (isn’t leaftag just so much better?).

The main part of Leaftag is a library called (oddly enough) libleaftag, which interfaces with the tag database. It’s GObject-based, and the API is quite small. It can tag anything with a URI.

There’s tagutils, a small app used for working with tags and files. It is able to tag and untag files, list all known tags, list all files with a specified tag, and manipulate tag properties (such as icons and descriptions). It also includes some symlinks that provide shortcuts to common tagutils functions (tag, untag, tagls, tags, and tagprop).

leaftag-python contains Python bindings for libleaftag. It simplifies the already simple libleaftag library.