What is Philospace?

Philospace is a desktop application developed within the Discovery EU project, is based on DBin 2.0 and is currently at its first release.

Philospace is specifically tergeted to scholars who wants to add notes, comments, information to web resources of interest and share them with other scholars. Nevertheless we think Philospace could be used in a variety of different contexts.

What can I do with Philospace?

With Philospace you can add your personal notes to web pages and parts of them (e.g. text fragments, images).

Notes in Philospace can be simple textual annotations as well as "semantic annotations" supported by Semantic Web ontologies.

What does it means?

It means that you can:

Attach simple comments to a web page (e.g. saying you like it and giving your point of view on the content);

Attach metadata to a web page, using precise terms and relations (e.g. saying that it "has been written" by "Bob", it "talks about" "Freedom", and so on);

Do both these things referring to a single sentence of a web page or to an image contained in it.

With Philospace you can decide to share your personal notes and/or import notes that other users decided to share.

To learn more about Philospace download and read the draft user guide or go to the download section to try it out. More documentation is coming ... stay tuned :-)

Christian Morbidoni - christian.morbidoni -AT- gmail.com
Muchele Nucci - mik.nucci -AT- gmail.com