
GNOWSYS Version 0.6v2.

Gnowledge Networking and Organizing System, is a web based knowledge
base application with a support for hybrid database representation
(OODBMS, RDBMS, file system, distributed DBMS). It is suitable for
developing and maintaining semantic web content.  It is developed in
Python and works as an installed product in ZOPE. The application
provides gnowledge organizers, viz. object, object type, relation,
relation type, metatype, metatype relation, function, function type,
class, class type, flow, flow type, etc., for developing semantic
computing applications.

We are striving to base the system on a generic kernel that supports
FOL (First Order Logic) for declarative knowledge, and Petri Nets for
procedural knowledge.  We wish that this will enable easy integration
with other systems that work with CL, Concept Graphs, KIF, OWL, XTM,
and other standards the industry and academia commonly use.  

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.  Starting from version 0.6 the
data objects are stored in BTree folders, which scaled up the
application both in speed and size by several folds.

GNOWSYS is an official GNU software, released under GPL.

Project website is http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/gnowsys/.
Documentation site is http://www.gnowledge.org/gnowsys/

Sample applications that are developed using GNOWSYS are available
at http://www.gnowledge.org/.

Other Software Required: ZOPE (Zee Object Publishing Environment),
another ZOPE product BTreeFolder2.  Please see the installation
instructions. It also 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, konqueror,
netscape, lynx etc). This can be installed on any OS where ZOPE also
runs, and certainly GNU/Linux.


