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The Beagle++ toolbox: Towards an extendable desktop search architecture

  • Ingo Brunkhorst
  • , Paul Alexandru Chirita
  • , Stefania Costache
  • , Julien Gaugaz
  • , Ekaterini Ioannou
  • , Tereza Iofciu
  • , Enrico Minack
  • , Wolfgang Nejdl
  • , Raluca Paiu

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Abstract

The rapidly increasing quantity and diversity of data stored on our PCs made locating information in this environment very difficult. Consequently, recent research has focussed on building semantically enhanced systems for either organizing or searching data on the desktop. Building on previous work, in this paper we present the Beagle++ toolbox, a set of extendable building blocks for implementing such a system. The corresponding modular desktop search architecture integrates our previously developed metadata generators and ranking components, uses an RDF database to share data between components, and can easily integrate other external components to improve desktop search quality. Additionally, we provide implementation details about all our current components, how they interact with each other, and how to install the complete system on top of a Linux distribution.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSemDesk 2006
Subtitle of host publicationSemantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration
Publication statusPublished - 2006
EventSemantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop, SemDesk 2006 - Located at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006 - Athens, GA, United States
Duration: 6 Nov 20066 Nov 2006

Publication series

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
PublisherCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Volume202
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Conference

ConferenceSemantic Desktop and Social Semantic Collaboration Workshop, SemDesk 2006 - Located at the 5th International Semantic Web Conference, ISWC 2006
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAthens, GA
Period6 Nov 20066 Nov 2006

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Computer Science

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