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The focus of the project is research and development for novel access to information in digital libraries. Digital libraries store information from diverse areas, e.g. scientific articles, and offer a web-based access to these digital formats. The user currently can search via names, standardized key words or other text-based means. In DiLiA methods will be developed that extends this access by several dimensions.
On the one hand, the user will be supported and guided by allowing her to visually investigate relevant search result sets. On the other hand, methods will be developed to extract cross links and semantic relations from a document set selected by the user.

The aim of the project Semantic eInk is to develop a system that supports personal knowledge work on paper. The system automatically processes handwritten annotations on printed documents and interprets the semantic information of these annotations. The recognized information is expressed through formal semantics using the individual's vocabulary, and integrated into the personal knowledge base, the Social Semantic Desktop NEPOMUK. The integration makes this knowledge searchable, reusable, sharable and gives a context for its interpretation. Thus, Semantic eInk extends the Semantic Desktop with a new input modality, interactive paper.

ADIB aims at developing a tool that adaptively and pro-actively provides information and know-how for knowledge intensive tasks based on an integrated task management system. This includes:

• proactive information support based on the user's task-context and feedback
• handling of task concepts in knowledge work processes (identification, systematization, unification of tasks)
• case-based retrieval of structured tasks to improve the reuse of everyday work practices

The main scope of this project is the development of an approach to establish process-oriented personal knowledge management for knowledge workers. Emphasis is realising a context-aware, personalized, process-oriented proactive retrieval of information from personal knowledge spaces. Therefore a special semantic search algorithm is required that is context-aware and also more importantly that is in line with the personal aims, working methods.
ActiveDesk extends the Semantic Desktop developed in the project EPOS - Evolving Personal to Organizational Knowledge Spaces like following:

• horizontal - integration of the physical desktop
• vertical - extension for a more detailed context-model through a deep analysis of document contents