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Thursday, June 09, 2005  

DBin Project - Semantic Web P2P and/or Semantic Newsgroup Client.
http://www.dbin.org/

Dbin, is a novel kind of web application: a "Napster like" Semantic Web P2P and/or a Semantic Newsgroup Client. Similar to a filesharing client, DBin connects directly to other peers. Instead of files, however, it will download "relevant information" about topics you specify. More tecnically sharing and receiving "Semantically structured information" using RDF and other components of the W3C Semantic Web Initialtive. Similar to a Newsgroup client, bits of information (called "annotations") are collected and inserted by entering Topic Rooms. e.g. the "Beers lovers" or "Butterflies collector" rooms. To maximally enjoy the room, it is suggested that you download a proper, personalized user interface and interaction environment prepared for you by domain experts (e.g. ). Such "specialized" domain applications that run on top of DBin are called "brainlets". Annotations often take the form of comments or binary files (pictures etc.. ), but given RDF is used, they can nicely structured pieces of "metadata" such as direct comparisons, votes, data sheets, sale offers, semantic links with other resources or concepts, reviews, etc .. The more "annotations" you collect, the "smartest" your DBin will become, enabling you to browse and query your data in cool and novel ways. For example you can customize a DBin view to show you "the most recent belgian beers entries which had a vote higher than 8 and are being sold in a pub located in your region". The more "annotations" you'll insert, the happier people around you will be :-). It's nice to build knowledge together. This has been added to Semantic Web Research of Deep Web Research Subject Tracerâ„¢ Information Blog.

posted by Marcus Zillman | 4:05 AM
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