The DBin Semantic Web platform: an overview
Giovanni Tummarello, Christian Morbidoni, Paolo Puliti, Francesco Piazza · Università Politecnica delle Marche (Università Politecnica delle Marche) · 2005
DBin is a tool to build “Semantic Web P2P communities”. It provides a general platform on top of which it is possible to create and run P2P Semantic Web applications where users contribute by annotating topics of common interest. DBin introduces a Semantic Computing scenario where users “slowly”, but in a sustainable way, build a local DB and can then enjoy a variety of semantic based activities such as browsing or intelligent interaction with the local media and files. DBin accommodates a number of experimental modules to deal with specific kind of metadata (audio metadata extraction, textual analysis, desktop integration) as well as a domain oriented user interface. DBin includes an RDF subgraph digital signature facility enabling personalized trust policies to provide filtering out unwanted information. Maximum extendibility is guaranteed by the use of the Eclipse Rich Client platform and by the Open Source model.