Abstract:
To accomplish the daily work people use several desktop applications
to collaborate with co-workers. Each application is specialized
on a specific domain, such as document management, email, or time planning.
Although the data is distributed over several applications the data
is highly interlinked from the user¿s point of view. The Social Semantic
Desktop aims to take advantage of Semantic Web technologies on the
computer¿s desktop to better support the user¿s mental working model
and to enable collaboration over enterprise boundaries. In this paper we
present our ongoing work on the Social Semantic Desktop as collaboration
environment. We present the intended usage scenarios, discuss the
required services and give an outlook on the architecture we envision for
the Social Semantic Desktop.
