Components

• application-logic
  • GnowsisInstaller - what happens during the gnowsis installation, what should happen?
  • PimoService - a service that holds the PIMO, providing an API to edit it. Part of gnowsis-server.
  • PimoQuery - a collection of useful queries to the PIMO store.
  • PimoContentTraining - semi-automatically training the classes of the pim by the content added to them
  • TaggingApi - API to tagging of recources with things or tags
  • ThingCreationService - automatic creation of things from resources (rebirth-machine)
• GUI-related components
  • PimoThingEditor - the gui to edit the personal mental models. Edit a thing.
  • MiniquireGui - the miniquire sidebar showing assistance
  • EnquireSearch - searching using enquire
  • TaggingPluginThunderbird - tagging from thunderbird
  • ConfigurationWindow - editing configuration values
• Storage-related services
  • ApertureConfigurationService - the services around configuring aperture, helping during installation, etc.
  • ApertureDatasources - what data sources do we plan to use and what data can be expected?
  • ApertureSynchroniser - crawls data into ResourceStorage
  • DataAccess - a more detailed API to access the different stores
  • GnowsisSearch - the fulltext search service
  • ConfigurationStorage - stores config data
  • PimoStorage - stores the personal information model
  • ResourceStorage - stores crawled resources
  • ServiceDataStorage - stores internal data
• backbone services
  • EposWorkspace - framework to handle gnowsis services

note that we discriminate between services (running in background) and Application Programmer Interfaces (API) that are available for the programmer.

XML-RPC APIs

These classes can be called from external programs using XML-RPC. How to do that, read XmlRpcDeveloping.

api-id	javadoc
Enquire2006	_
enquire2006_iconservice	​GnowsisIconServiceApi
enquire2006_miniquire	​MiniquireApi
enquire2006_searchwindow	​SearchWindowApi
enquire2006_thingeditor	​ThingEditorApi
editor	​EditorApi
dropboxapi	​DropBoxApi
annotator	​Annotator
websearch	​WebSearch
photoannotator	​PhotoAnnotatorApi
gnowsis-server	_
gnowsis-server_configure	​ConfigurationStorageApi
gnowsis-server_servercontroller	​ServerControllerApi

... more to come, see here: ​services in gnowsis, we have to script this table...

related documentation

• PimOntology - the ontology for personal information management
• SesameIntegration - integration of Sesame2, instead Sparql2SQL and Jena storage. What do we have to do?
• GnowsisOnTheMac - how does gnowsis behave on MacOsX, Apple integration!
• GnowsisProjectStructure