Desktop Gateway: Semantic Desktop Integration with Cloud Services

Abstract

With the development of IT technologies, the amount of information that the user receives and the sources of information which he or she uses, increased dramatically. There is a need of an intelligent desktop application, which will integrate different information sources from both the desktop and the web. To address this problem, we present a solution for a semantic desktop application, which relies on the use of ontologies to annotate and organize data, extracted from any application or website, into one environment. This paper gives an overview of the semantic desktop paradigm and its relevance to the knowledge management of the future. We also show how the semantic desktop application can connect with the cloud services for an enhanced user experience.