1. Semantically Enabled
Personal Information
Management with
Cluug.com
Bernhard Schandl
CTO, Gnowsis.com

2. The usual situation
Email
Calendar
Contacts Files

3. The usual situation
Email
Calendar
Contacts Files

4. Isn’t a (desktop) search
engine enough?
Search ok

5. Files
Documents
Private
Projects
CID
Research

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9. Key Activities
Filing
Finding Organizing

10. PIM Tools
• PIM Suites: Outlook, Thunderbird,
Apple, ...
• Mind mapping: MindManager,
Freemind, ...
• Note taking: Evernote, OneNote, ...
• (Desktop) Search Engines: Windows,
Google, Spotlight, ...

11. What is missing?
• Storage, but no management
• No “intelligence”
• Information silos
• Data, but no context
• Items do not connect
• Things go in but don’t come out

12. The Missing Link
Email
Calendar
Contacts Files

13. The Missing Link
Email
Calendar
Contacts Files

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18. • Cluug identifies, reads, and
understands your information
items: Emails, Files, Contacts,
Appointments, Web pages, ...

19. • Cluug identifies, reads, and
understands your information
items: Emails, Files, Contacts,
Appointments, Web pages, ...
• Cluug allows you to connect
them to each other and to relate
them to Projects, Tasks, Topics,

20. • Cluug identifies, reads, and
understands your information
items: Emails, Files, Contacts,
Appointments, Web pages, ...
• Cluug allows you to connect
them to each other and to relate
them to Projects, Tasks, Topics,
• Cluug gives you
recommendations for potentially
relevant items — no need to

21. Cluug Platform
• The Cluug Platform is a SaaS Service on
the Web — using Cluug means having an
account for this platform.
• Metadata (and fulltext, if applicable) are
extracted and sent to the platform —
analysis, recommendations, storage,
indexes are done there.
• The Cluug Web application provides
search, navigation, and annotation.

23. Semantic Technologies
in Cluug
• “Things” are identified by URIs.
• RDF is the core data exchange format.
• RDF-based tools like Aperture for content
extraction.
• Things are analyzed and matched against
already existing things.
• External data sources are used to
recommend new, unknown items and
entities.

24. we will meet there to prepare the CID project meeting

25. Cluug and Linked Data
• Cluug uses Linked Data sources (e.g.,
DBpedia) to discover potentially
interesting entities.
• Cluug provides a Linked Data view on a
person’s entire information sphere:
• Things have stable, globally valid URIs.
• RDF descriptions are available.
• Things are linked to each other, and to
external data sources.

26. Cluug Integration
• Cluug integrates tightly into end user
applications.
• This integration significantly increases the
individual’s productivity — the need to
search and navigate is reduced.
• Desktop: Windows Explorer, Outlook, MS
Office, Web Browser, ...
• Web 2.0 platforms
• Mobile platforms

30. Connecting Data and
Things
• Cluug provides a model for the
representation of physical data that is
associated to logical things.
• Data can be directly referenced and
accessed in their native applications.
• For items that have no “native” URL, Cluug
provides a URL schema and an extensible
URL handler.

33. Cluug for Developers
• Cluug provides two APIs:
• Extractor & Recommender API: integrate
content analysis, extraction, and
recommendation components.
• Connector & Client API: talk to Cluug services
from applications, create and update things,
search, get recommendations.
• Both are based on REST principles, RDF
serialization, OAuth authentication.
• Clients for Python, C# (Java and PHP upcoming).

34. Current State
• Cluug is currently in transition from alpha
to beta.
• We will start to give away connectors for
Explorer, Outlook, and Firefox soon.
• Contact us if you want to participate!
• Your feedback is highly appreciated!

35. Roadmap
• Cluug Version 2: Social Services
• Create groups and invite people
• Share selected things with your
colleagues
• Links, recommendations, annotations
across all things from groups you are
member of
• Cluug Version 3: Desktop Sync Services

36. What We Search For
• Do you have analysis / extraction /
recommendation services that rock?
• Do you have applications that you would
like connect to Cluug?
• Do you want to develop applications or
services on top of Cluug data?
• Do you want to evaluate Cluug in your
organization?
Let us know!

37. Thank you!
Bernhard Schandl
CTO & Research
✉ bernhard.schandl@gnowsis.com twitter.com/besbes
http://www.gnowsis.com twitter.com/gnowsiscom
http://www.cluug.com twitter.com/cluug