ANNOUNCEMENT OF Aperture 1.0.1-beta RELEASE

ANNOUNCEMENT OF Aperture 1.0.1-beta RELEASE
http://aperture.sourceforge.net/

Aperture is a Java framework for extracting full-text content and
metadata from various information systems (e.g. file systems, web sites,
mail boxes) and the file formats (e.g. documents, images) occurring in
these systems.

This release bears the mark of the Nepomuk Social Semantic
Desktop - a major intiative combining research
institutes and commercial companies from around Europe.
Aperture is used as one of the pillars of a
next-generation  platform that changes the way
people can organize and use the data stored on their
computers. The input from the Nepomuk Community drove us to
implement a host of new features that make Aperture more
useful, more flexible and more powerful.

New Features

- Aperture has been migrated to use the newly developed
   Nepomuk Information Element Ontology framework. This
   added a new level of precision and expressiveness to the
   output of Aperture components. The ontology itself
   is endorsed by the Nepomuk Consortium, well documented
   and maintained.
- The output is now thoroughly tested with an extensible
   rdf validator for compliance with the ontology. This
   allowed us to fix a number of bugs that made certain
   properties appear in places they didn't belong
- the data source configuration API has been overhauled and
   is now much more easy to use
- A new facility that allows clients to implement dynamic
   GUIs for data source configuration.
- New JpgExtractor that extracts EXIF annotations from JPG
   files
- four new experimental crawlers (Flickr, Bibsonomy,
   del.icio.us and Apple IPhoto).
- host of small improvements and bug fixes

Another improvement is a public wiki for documentation,
tutorials and FAQ.
http://aperture.wiki.sourceforge.net/

Updated dependencies
- Sesame 2.0 beta-6 (was beta-4)
- RDF2Go 4.4.6
- RDF2Go driver for sesame
- A metadata-extractor-2.4.0-beta-1 library used by the
   JPGExtractor
- POI has been update to 3.0-FINAL
- flickrapi-1.0b4 used by the FlickrCrawler
- DFKIUtils 2.0 some XML-related utilities are used by the
   website crawlers
- nrlvalidator-0.1 the validator used by the unit tests
- infsail-0.1 and unionsail-0.1 dependencies of the
   validator

download here:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=150969

Best regards
Antoni Mylka
Christiaan Fluit
Leo Sauermann

Received on Monday, 12 November 2007 13:46:33 UTC