A Multi-Ontology Approach for Personal Information Management

Huiyong Xiao and Isabel F. Cruz

Abstract

The increasingly huge volume of personal information stored in a desktop computer is characterized by disparate models, unstructured contents, and implicit knowledge. Aiming at a semantic rich environment, a number of Semantic Desktop frameworks have been proposed, concentrating on different aspects, including organization, manipulation, and visualization of the data. In this paper, we propose a layered and semantic ontology-based framework for personal information management, and we discuss its annotations, associations, and navigation. We also discuss query processing in two cases: query rewriting in a single personal information application, PIA, and that between two PIAs.


@inproceedings{xiao05multiontology,
  author = "Huiyong Xiao and Isabel F. Cruz",
  title = "{A Multi-Ontology Approach for Personal Information Management}",
  booktitle = "Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on The Semantic Desktop (associated with ISWC 2005)",
  year = "2005"
}