Again gnowsis has advanced and the 0.8.2 release contains some interesting features, including a Joseki and SPARQL server and some bugfixes.

We are aware of the current movement towards sparql and have added SPARQL as a protocol to gnowsis using the ARQ/Joseki implementation. This can now be used in parallel to the existing URIQA interface, that has already been used by developers to talk to gnowsis.

Basically, gnowsis is a Semantic Desktop framework that integrates heterogenous data sources (files, outlook, imap servers, etc..) into a queryable and linkable RDF framework. It is programmed in Java and extends Jena. You can use it as a very big code sample of how to use Jena, install it and browse your own filesystem as an RDF graph, extract Concise Bounded Descriptions of resources and be happy with all the RDF.
Gnowsis is released under a BSD license and you are free to extend it.

The 0.8.2 release is mainly a bugfix and enhancement release of 0.8.1. We will now distribute gnowsis more frequently and move from our private cvs to a public visible subversion soon.

download gnowsis here:
http://www.gnowsis.org/Download

Changelog of 0.8.2:

* a new Joseki Server. Joseki is added using the hot joseki3 version from the latest CVS from sourceforge. Expect to make SERQL queries. documentation follows
* the service concepts has been improved
* gnowsis uses now Jena Modelmakers in central places. This allows to configure the search and central repository services to run either on database or on file models, in the future also NG4J
* Client interfaces made better.

What misses is decent documentation of the new features. If you are willing to contribute, please contact leo@gnowsis.com

If you are interested in gnowsis, don't hesitate to contact me,
may rdf:Resource be with you.

Leo Sauermann