- From: Leo Sauermann <leo.sauermann@dfki.de>
- Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2007 14:45:21 +0100
- To: SWIG <semantic-web@w3.org>, semantic_web@googlegroups.com, Aperture Developers <aperture-devel@lists.sourceforge.net>
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
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