Title
Turning the mouse into a semantic device: the seMouse experience
Abstract
The desktop is not foreign to the semantic way that is percolating broad areas of computing. This work reports on the experiences on turning the mouse into a semantic device. The mouse is configured with an ontology, and from then on, this ontology is used to annotate the distinct desktop resources. The ontology plays the role of a clipboard which can be transparently accessed by the file editors to either export (i.e. annotation) or import (i.e. authoring) metadata. Traditional desktop operations are now re-interpreted and framed by this ontology: copy&paste becomes annotation&authoring, and folder digging becomes property traversal. Being editor-independent, the mouse accounts for portability and maintainability to face the myriad of formats and editors which characterizes current desktops. This paper reports on the functionality, implementation, and user evaluation of this “semantic mouse”.
Year
DOI
Venue
2006
10.1007/11762256_34
ESWC
Keywords
Field
DocType
distinct desktop resource,semantic mouse,folder digging,semantic device,mouse account,broad area,traditional desktop operation,file editor,semouse experience,paper report,current desktops,knowledge management
Ontology,Metadata,World Wide Web,Annotation,Information retrieval,Computer science,Semantic Web,Clipboard,Software portability,Maintainability,Semantics
Conference
Volume
ISSN
ISBN
4011
0302-9743
3-540-34544-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
1
0.38
6
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jon Iturrioz1579.83
Sergio Fernández Anzuola271.64
Oscar Díaz341562.28