Overcoming the Semantic Gap Between Desktop Applications

...or why should I annotate my Web pages.

Abstract

When copying and pasting data between applications using the operating system clipboard, the semantics of the transfered information is usually lost. Using Semantic Web technologies these semantics can be explicitly defined in a machine process-able way and therefore be preserved during the data transfer. In this paper we introduce SemClip, our implementation of a Semantic Clipboard that enables the exchange of semantically enriched data between desktop applications and show how such a clipboard can be used to copy and paste semantic annotations from Web pages to desktop applications.

» This way SemClip encourages Web page owners to semantically annotate their pages.

SemClip Installation

To make the installation as easy as possible we let SemClip and its mapping service run on our server. All you need to test SemClip is a bookmarklet in your JavaScript enabled Web browser and a Script that fetches the data from SemClip and pushes it into the desktop application.

Currently the script is only available for Apple Mac OS X. If you run MS Windows you can watch the screen videos below.

You can eithter use our installer or mannually install SemClip.