OntoFM: A Personal Ontology-based File Manager for the Desktop
This work addresses the need for improved file management tools for users with personal ontologies, but it is incremental as it builds on existing ontology systems without introducing major innovations.
The authors tackled the problem of semantic management of personal information by developing an ontology-based file manager that enables semantic searching, proposes related concepts, and aids in file exploration, resulting in a tool that leverages ontology relations to enhance user interaction with their information space.
Personal ontologies have been proposed as a means to support the semantic management of user information. Assuming that a personal ontology system is in use, new tools have to be developed at user interface level to exploit the enhanced capabilities offered by the system. In this work, we present an ontology-based file manager that allows semantic searching on the user's personal information space. The file manager exploits the ontology relations to present files associated with specific concepts, proposes new related concepts to users, and helps them explore the information space and locate the required file.