A European endeavor called the Nepomuk Project plans to introduce the Semantic Web to computers in the form of a “semantic desktop.”

The software generates semantic information by using “crawlers” to go through a computer and annotate as many files as possible. These crawlers look through a user’s address book, for example, and search for files related to the people found in there. Nepomuk can then connect a file sent by a particular person with one related to the company that person works for, making Nepomuk a particularly useful way to search a computer.