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= Gnowsis Development Site = 

welcome to gnowsis, the Semantic Desktop environment published by the Knowledge Management Lab of the DFKI. Gnowsis can be used in research projects or by interested individuals to benefit from Semantic Web technologies. Gnowsis was brought forward in the [http://www3.dfki.uni-kl.de/epos/ BMBF-project EPOS] and is continued in the EU project NEPOMUK. 

Here you find most documentation on current gnowsis development and our workplace for future releases. The main website of gnowsis is [http://www.gnowsis.org www.gnowsis.org]. 

= Documentation =

 * [http://www.gnowsis.org/Documentation gnowsis.org] - end-user documentation
 * [http://www.gnowsis.org/statisch/javadoc/ Javadoc]
 * [http://www.gnowsis.org/statisch/doc/ Developer Doc] - tutorials, overview
 * [wiki:WikiStart this wiki] - developer's hot documentation and project management
   * GnowsisProjectStructure - what packages are where, whats all this code about?
   * GnowsisComponents - what components does gnowsis consist of?
   * UseCases - what are the handled use cases?

 * [http://www.gnowsis.org/About about] - some facts about the project
 * [http://www.gnowsis.org/About/Credits credits] - credits

= Developing Gnowsis =

To get started developing gnowsis, check out our development wiki page (which will evolve, when you change it)

 * GnowsisDeveloping - getting started with gnowsis development

== Subversion Access ==

Public access to the full gnowsis source is here

https://gnowsis.opendfki.de/repos/gnowsis


= Community =

'''IRC-Chat:''' To stay in contact with the other gnowsis developers, use the #gnowsis channel on [http://www.freenode.net IRC-Net on freenode] to communicate. For short: [irc://irc.freenode.net/gnowsis irc://irc.freenode.net/gnowsis]. [http://esw.w3.org/topic/InternetRelayChat IRC] is a good protocol to run in parallel and served us well on other occasions. Many !SemWeb people have accounts there on freenode and its useful to hang out in #swig there, also. There are different clients for IRC, one is the jabber/icq/irc integrated [http://www.miranda-im.org miranda-im] which leobard uses. mIRC is also well-known. For larger quantities of code, use [http://pastebin.com pastebin] to chat and develop code together.

'''Mailinglist:''' Messages about the state of gnowsis and to get in touch with the gnowsis team, use the [http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/gnowsis-dev/ gnowsis development mailinglist]. You can view the [http://de.groups.yahoo.com/group/gnowsis-dev/ archives] online and join the mailinglist using a yahoo account or by sending an email to '''gnowsis-dev-subscribe(at)yahoogroups.de''' .

We also talk to each other via [report:3 tickets] and the [https://gnowsis.opendfki.de/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/roadmap Roadmap]. 

'''T-Shirts Merchandise!''' the gnowsis t-shirts are sold out at the moment, but we will order new ones in 2006. For more look at GnowsisTshirt.

= Roadmap =

Where is gnowsis coming from? where will it go? Gnowsis started in June 2002 when Leo Sauermann decided to make a diploma thesis about cyberspace. Well, cyberspace went down and gnowsis came up. At the beginning of 2003, it was dark ages of Semantic Web. The Aurora project just went down and many frameworks out there, but less apps. RDFSuite was a kind of state of the art. at 19th of may 2003, the first listStatements call went through the !FileAdapter, marking our beginning of Virtual RDF Graphs. The first prototype ran in 2003 and the thesis was published 2003. 2004 Leo Sauermann went to DFKI and the project went public in September 2004. It was integrated into the EPOS project and tools like the Brainfiler. At the end of 2005, we are standing before the step to '''beta 0.9''': three years of fumbling should now lead to a useful tool.

 * [https://gnowsis.opendfki.de/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/roadmap Roadmap] - the current roadmap of gnowsis, what features to develop next, what bugs to fix. This is built from tickets.
 * GnowsisProjectPlan - the plan what features we will do in the next year, who does what and why. Here you find use-case descriptions, features, GUI mockups, detailed package descriptions and unit descriptions.
 * GnowsisBrainstorm - what to do next with the gnowsis? Here we list ideas, that are not included in the project plan yet.

The goal for gnowsis during 2006 is to publish a useful, self containing beta version in February. All features and todos of this beta can be found here: [https://gnowsis.opendfki.de/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/milestone/0.9%20beta milestone 0.9 beta]. This release will be build from scratch again, using a fresh project and seperating the components in a different way. We will still use our battle-proven DFKIWorkspace service launcher (OSGI remains outside), but dependencies to MySQL and other external apps will be removed. A personal semantic wiki is the most important goal, we moved from using snipsnap away to using JSPwiki as the basis. The semantic wiki/blog will be [http://kaukoluwiki.opendfki.de Kaukolu-Wiki], another nice move of DFKI.

= Links =

 * [http://aperture.sourceforge.net Aperture] A framework to extract information from various data sources. It started based on Aduna Autofocus and the Gnowsis Adapter framework [wiki:SemanticDataIntegrationFramework original aperture discussion]