semiBlog — Semantic Publishing of Desktop Data

A number of approaches have been suggested to solve the chicken-and-egg problem that the Semantic Web faces; one of the most prominent among them being the automatic generation of formal data from text and other sources through the use of various Information Extraction (IE) techniques. In this paper, however, we will not take that approach, but instead follow the suggestion to build applications that would produce formal, Semantic Web (SW)-conformant data as a by-product of processes that users might already be performing on a regular basis [6].