After well over 3 years of research and development, folks at
SEMEDIA, Semantic Web and Multimedia research group at Universita'
Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy - announce the first public release of DBin 0.3 "Ficus".
DBin is a Semantic Web application/client/paradigm that allows users to gather in P2P communities around topics of interest and perform
cooperative annotations.
DBin is:
* General purpose: It can address any community where metadata is
important, be these the "Beer Lovers" or "Opera Purists".
* Both domain expert and end user oriented: Domain expert create special configuration packages called Brainlets, end users simply install suck packages and enjoy fully configured applications with a rich, domain specific user interface, appropriate ontologies, "pre made" queries to answer the common requests, URI minting policies so that new resources are created in a fashion as orderly as possible etc.
The following tools are provided:
- a P2P algorithm for exchanging annotations
- a rich semantic web browser and ontology based editor,
- a security infrastructure based on the Minimum Self Contained graph
signing theory which assures the identity of those who inserted information
- a filtering facility which filters according to the digital signatures
and local policies,
- generic tools such as a "semantic clipboard" to shuffle data back and
forth among several facilities (queries, visualizers, import/Exporters etc)
- Automatic upload and download of data attachments (files, pictures,
media, long messages) from/to the Web using Web Publishing accounts
Open Source, released under the GNU Public License
http://www.dbin.org

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