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 [http://aperture.sf.net 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 [http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~sauermann/2006/01-pimo-report/pimOntologyLanguageReport.html PIMO].
 * Integration with [http://kaukoluwiki.opendfki.de 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 

Gnowsis 0.9 runs on Windows, Linux and Macosx. Download zip, or MacOSX image here: [http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~grimnes/gnowsis/GnowsisInstaller-0.9.0.dmg downloadlink].