EDUTELLA: Searching and Annotating Resources within an RDF-based P2P Network

P2P applications for searching and exchanging information over the Web have become increasingly popular. This has lead to a number of (usually thematically) focused communities, which allow efficient searching within such communities, and which use specific metadata sets to specify the resources stored within the P2P network. By concentrating on domain and application specific formats for metadata and query languages, however, current P2P networks appear to be fragmenting into non-interoperable niche markets. This contribution describes the open source project Edutella which builds upon metadata standards defined for the WWW and aims to provide an RDF-based metadata infrastructure for P2P applications, building on the recently announced JXTA Framework. We describe one basic service (query) and an Edutella application (annotation) within this network, both being built on a common query language exchange format, and specify the main architecture and APIs of the Edutella P2P network.

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