Thanks to the comments and discussion, I was motivated to do more research into my own question. What I’ve found is that there have been some attempts to use semantic technologies for personal knowledge management (PKM).
I have not found evidence one way or the other as to whether these tools have been helpful for knowledge discovery, but they seem promising.
The main tool that would be accessible to the average user is Semantic MediaWiki, this is an extension to Wikipedia’s popular MediaWiki software that adds KR functionality based on semantic web technologies.
Here is an article about how to set this up for PKM.
-This article does a good job outlining a general theory of how to build a semantic knowledge application for PKM. The arguments are not tied to a specific software implementation.
Thanks to the comments and discussion, I was motivated to do more research into my own question. What I’ve found is that there have been some attempts to use semantic technologies for personal knowledge management (PKM).
I have not found evidence one way or the other as to whether these tools have been helpful for knowledge discovery, but they seem promising.
The main tool that would be accessible to the average user is Semantic MediaWiki, this is an extension to Wikipedia’s popular MediaWiki software that adds KR functionality based on semantic web technologies.
Here is an article about how to set this up for PKM.
PDF Journal article Semantic Wikis for Personal Knowledge Management
-This article does a good job outlining a general theory of how to build a semantic knowledge application for PKM. The arguments are not tied to a specific software implementation.
PDF Journal article Learning with Semantic Wikis
-I haven’t read this article yet, but from the abstract it sounds generally useful