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The social Web is characterized by the communication between loose community members and the sharing of resources that have to be managed by adapted indexing and querying systems. In this chapter we present a solution helping users that want to belong to some community to organize in a common way the resources retrieved from the community and their own resources. We only consider communities structured as a network of peers without any centralized support. The implemented system front-end is built as a web application similar to a traditional desktop operating system. It gives interfaces to several tools dealing with resources stored in the memory. A specific one, independent of any other applications is in charge of all the operations concerning the indexing, the publication of resources in the peer to peer network and the retrieving of resources in the local memory and from the network. Our solution is based on semantic indexing using concepts of domain ontologies automatically downloaded from the network. We show the way we have solved the main issues occurring in this research context.
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Moulin, C., Lai, C. (2010). Semantic Desktop: A Common Gate on Local and Distributed Indexed Resources. In: Soro, A., Vargiu, E., Armano, G., Paddeu, G. (eds) Information Retrieval and Mining in Distributed Environments. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 324. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16089-9_4
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