Publishing semantic personal notes as linked data

Abstract

There is an obvious shift of focus towards the Web, as people spend more of their time and store more of their data online. However, the desktop still handles a large amount of the personal data. The Semantic Desktop brings semantics to the desktop, better interlinking and organization of the data, thus allowing better management. However, in spite of common representation formats, personal and online data is still difficult to interlink, notably because of the different vocabularies used to describe it as well as the lack of common identifiers between desktop applications andWeb-based services. We describe here a solution for easily publishing and sharing of personal notes as Linked Data. We provide a two-phased publishing and interlinking process. It can be used to publish any kind of information from the desktop to the Web, enabling integration of small chunks of personal knowledge into the Web of Data and focusing on a userdriven approach of knowledge management.