Promiscuous semantic federation: semantic desktops meet web 2.0
Jack Park · 2006
What if there are ways to federate all of the many world views of actors everywhere. What would be the use cases under which such a federation makes sense? What would be the benefits to such a federation? What would be the drawbacks to such a federation? Indeed, what are the ways in which such a federation could be facilitated? Why promiscuous? By positing a rhetorical inquiry into the fabric of human cognition and its federation, we open Pandora’s Box and unleash many questions, many avenues of inquiry. In this paper, we will limit the discussion to an overview of one approach to semantic federation of human thinking, the coupling of a Semantic Desktop platform, IRIS 1 and its associated cognitive framework CALO 2, to a Web 2.0 platform we call Tagomizer 3. We will show how Tagomizer, a social bookmarking application running on top of a web-based subject map, can assist users in an aspect of Semantic Desktop platforms in their day-to-day cognitive tasks, that of finding information resources related to projects or tasks in which they are engaged. We highlight the fact that social bookmarking is one of many ways in which promiscuous semantic federation can be achieved. We will provide a framework with which answers to questions of the kind suggested above can be found. 1. Background