BeagleDDS is an extension to the Beagle desktop search utility for information sharing and distributed searching. This developement was performed by Gideon Zenz and Sebastian Schildt as a student project at the L3S Research center and Leibniz Universität Hannover.
BeagleDDS addresses the major challenge in today's working environment: Finding important information on demand. Every project comes with and generates a lot of relevant information. Every team member creates her own documents. Using desktop search utilities like Beagle, one is able to efficiently search within an own document collection. The challenge here is that often several group members need to obtain same information but everyone searches for it on her own. Moreover, group members decide to share information with the rest of the team only if it seems to be relevant enough. Obviously, this approach is not very efficient, especially because everyone has to decide whether or not a local document is relevant for the others. As a result a user might decide not to share relevant information, or simply forget to share it with the group members needing it. BeagleDDS extends the desktop search utility Beagle to allow for information sharing and distributed search. Moreover it enables teams to form working groups where they can share documents related to a project with their colleagues. Using extended Beagle's search facility combined with a distributed ranking algorithm, every team member will be enabled to quickly identify relevant documents in an easy manner. In order to protect valuable information and maintain privacy our solution features group access control and encryption of search queries and transfers. The package can be found at http://www.l3s.de/~zenz/BeagleDDS/ Regards, Gideon Zenz _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list Dashboard-hackers@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers