[ANN] DBin 0.3 "Ficus" released!

Greetings,

After well over 3 years of research and development, we folks at 
SEMEDIA, Semantic Web and Multimedia research group at Universita' 
Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy - long breath - are fairly proud 
to announce the first public release of DBin 0.3 "Ficus".

DBin is a Semantic Web application/client/paradigm that allows users to 
gather in P2P communities around topics of interest and perform 
cooperative annotations.

DBin is: 

* General purpose: It can address any community where metadata is 
important, be these the "Beer Lovers" or "Opera Purists". See our 
example online
* Both domain expert and end user oriented: Domain expert create special 
configuration packages called Brainlets, end users simply install suck 
packages and enjoy fully configured applications with a rich, domain 
specific user interface, appropriate ontologies, "pre made" queries to 
answer the common requests, URI minting policies so that new resources 
are created in a fashion as orderly as possible etc.
* All round: in the same application the following tools are provided: 
       
- a P2P algorithm for exchanging annotations
- a rich semantic web browser and ontology based editor,
- a security infrastructure based on the Minimum Self Contained graph 
signing theory which assures the identity of those who inserted information
- a filtering facility which filters according to the digital signatures 
and local policies,
- generic tools such as a "semantic clipboard" to shuffle data back and 
forth among several facilities (queries, visualizers, import/Exporters etc)
- Automatic upload and download of data attachments (files, pictures, 
media, long messages) from/to the Web using Web Publishing accounts

* Totally bases its knowledge reppresentation on the W3C Semantic Web 
initiative in terms of standards and, as much as possible, philosophy.
* Based on the Eclipse RCP, so is: available for basically any user 
platform, sports a native OS look and feel, is expandable trough a state 
of the art plugin system (many Eclipse plugins can be used right away).
* Open Source, released under the GNU Public License

Screenshots, explanation and downloads are available at http://www.dbin.org
Documentation is available, though at the moment of this announcement in 
a rather rough state which will require you to cope with tons of typos 
and arguable grammar.  :-) Sorry..

For those in the area, DBin along with unreleased (ubercool ;-) ) 
geotagging plugins will be shown at the the next tech plenary in Cannes, 
March 2, http://esw.w3.org/topic/SwigAtTp2006

Giovanni Tummarello,
also on behalf of SeMedia and others who participated.

Received on Monday, 13 February 2006 01:58:17 UTC