GNOWSYS Version 0.6,
Gnowledge Networking and Organizing System, is a web application for
developing and maintaining semantic web content developed in Python
and works as an installed product in ZOPE. The application
provides gnowledge organizers, viz. object, object type, association,
association type, facet type, occurance type, function, function type,
class, class type, flow, flow type, theme, scope, etc., for developing
semantic web content.

For those who are aware, the application follows the partially the
structure of TopicMaps (http://www.topicmaps.org).  It is intended to
develop as a powerful prototype application demonstrating the
potential of an expert system within the paradigm of object oriented
database technology. Presently it can import/export the content in the
form of XTM (XML Topic Maps) standard only, but we are working on
adding data exchange support of other standards like RDF, OIL etc.

The application can be used for web based knowledge
representation and management projects, for developing structured
knowledge bases, as a collaborative authoring tool, suitable for
making electronic glossaries, dictionaries and encyclopedias, for
managing large web sites or links, developing an online catalogue for
a library of any thing including books, to make ontologies,
classifying and networking any objects etc. This tool is intended to
be used also for an on-line tutoring system with dependency management
system between various concepts. 

The application contains a
catalogue (an instance of ZCatalogue, a constituent of ZOPE,
http://www.zope.org) for indexing all the metadata for faster search and
query. 

It also contains a facility to add rules into its rule base, and
execute the rules. (This is presently experimental.) Once completely
implemented this feature will make the product really powerful, for it
can infer and make new relations.  
 

GNOWSYS is a free software, released under
GPL.  

Project website is http://www.gnowledge.org/.

Sample applications that
are developed using GNOWSYS will be available at
http://www.gnowledge.org/, which is developed using GNOWSYS. 

Other Software Required: ZOPE (Zee Object Publishing Environment), and
another ZOPE product Transparent Folder. Needs clients that support
either FTP, webdav, http protocols for accessing, managing and using
the application. This support is normally available in browsers (like
mozilla, netscape, lynx etc). This can be installed on any OS where
ZOPE also runs, and certainly GNU/Linux. 

<p color="red"> The potential of Procedural Representaion Module
requires as many Python library files installed on the OS; TeX package
is required for Publish and Drawing Modules.  ImageMagick library is
required for conversion.  A Perl package html2latex is also necessary
for the publishing module.  All these additional modules are tested
only on GNU/Linux, but should work in any Unix OS, and with some
tweaking should work on MS Windows as well. 

Get Numeric.py from here http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy


Please read the installation instructions carefully from 
www.gnowledge.org.

