NOV 13th 2007

Aperture is a Java framework for extracting full-text content and metadata from various information systems (filesystems, Web sites, email inboxes) and the file formats (documents, images) in these systems.

New features:

  • Aperture has been migrated to use the newly developed Nepomuk Information Element Ontology framework. This added a new level of precision and expressiveness to the output of Aperture components. The ontology itself is endorsed by the Nepomuk Consortium, well documented and maintained.
  • The output is now thoroughly tested with an extensible RDF validator for compliance with the ontology. This allowed us to fix a number of bugs that made certain properties appear in places they didn't belong
  • The data source configuration API has been overhauled and is now much more easy to use
  • A new facility that allows clients to implement dynamic GUIs for data source configuration.
  • New JpgExtractor that extracts EXIF annotations from JPG files
  • Four new experimental crawlers (Flickr, Bibsonomy, del.icio.us and Apple IPhoto).
  • Host of small improvements and bug fixes

Semantic Weltbild 2.0 has more information on the release.

About the author

James Simmons

It's my goal to help bring about the Semantic Web. I also like to explore related topics like natural language processing, information retrieval, and web evolution. I'm the primary author of Semantic Focus and I'm currently working on several Semantic Web projects.

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