Abstract
Semantic File System (SFS) is the vision for the future of file systems where information is given with explicit meaning to be processed by machines automatically and consumed by the users easily. SFSs extend traditional file systems to organize and retrieve information according to their semantics, intent and relationships with other resources rather than their physical locations. Ontology-based file system is a step to dissolve the borders between semantic web and semantic desktop to make the desktop part of a single giant web. Unfortunately, to the best of the authors’ current knowledge, so far, no effort has been exercised to develop an ontology for SFSs. This work contributes a SFS ontology, which extends NEPOMUK information element ontology framework into the domain of SFSs. The proposed SFS ontology is freely available with full technical definitions of terms and complete class hierarchy to be used for any purpose in information technology (IT). In addition, as a proof-of-concept implementation, we deploy the proposed ontology in the 360ᵒ SFS. Finally, to get most of the benefits of the ontology, this paper also presents a semantics-aware file manager.
Highlights
Traditional file systems organize files in hierarchy of folders which have certain limitations
The main contribution of this paper lies in the shape of semantic file system (SFS) ontology
The terms of the proposed SFS ontology are provided with persistent URIs with content negotiation capability
Summary
Traditional file systems organize files in hierarchy of folders which have certain limitations. Information contained in files varies in structure. For efficient and precise retrieval of information, machines must be able to understand it, which needs semantics. Efforts have been put in binging this semantics-awareness to the desktop [2], which has resulted in improvements especially in file retrieval [3]. For file systems to be effective and accurate, semantic desktop needs semantic file system (SFS) immensely [4]. The main contribution of this paper is the development of an SFS ontology and its publishing on the web to be freely accessible and reusable by other researchers. This paper presents a semantic-aware file manager (FM) called 360o-FM that is based on the same ontology
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