JOFS

Part 1: project profile

Project name

Java Ontology for File Storage (JOFS)

Project short description

JOFS is a Java project concerning the develop of an OWL ontology to store meta informations about files and documents. We have implemented a Java library which mainly permits to create, manipulate and query the ontology and a JEE Web Application to demonstrate some of the characteristics of our work.

The library has two interesting characteristics: the ontology is made persistent and available to many programs concurrently through a relational database; the method to add files to the ontology has an architecture which permits automatic recognition of classes and relationship to add specific information to the knowledge base (actually only for PDF files but the core is easily extensible).

The Web Application is mainly a browser which permits the editing of some file properties.

Dates

Start date: 2007/11/01

End date: who knows?

Internet site(s)

http://sourceforge.net/projects/jofs/

People involved

Project Advisor

Davide Eynard

Students

Students currently working on the project

Simone Priamo - mashiro (tod) tamigi (ta) gmail (tod) it

Riccardo Tasso - rayman (ta) fastwebnet (tod) it

Part 2: project description

Soon available

Aim

Design and experiment how the semantic web instruments (OWL, Jena - Semantic Web Framework and Pellet: The Open Source OWL DL Reasoner) could be used to semantically store files.