Haystack (MIT project)

Haystack was a project at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to research and develop several applications around personal information management and the Semantic Web. The most notable of those applications is the Haystack client, a research personal information manager (PIM) and one of the first to be based on semantic desktop technologies. The Haystack client is published as open source software under the BSD license. It was developed in the RDF-aware dynamic language Adenine which was created for the project.

Similar to the Chandler PIM, the Haystack system unifies handling different types of unstructured information. This information has a common representation in RDF that is presented to users in a configurable human-readable way.

See also

• SIMILE
• Chandler (software)
• Semantic desktop
• Strigi
• Beagle (software)
• Personal knowledge base
• Comparison of notetaking software

References

• Haystack: per-user information environments. Eytan Adar, David Karger, Lynn Andrea Stein. Proceedings of the eighth international conference on Information and knowledge management, p. 413-422, November 2–06, 1999, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
• Haystack: A Platform for Creating, Organizing and Visualizing Information Using RDF. Huynh, Karger, et al. 2002
• Haystack Project summary
• Belief layer for Haystack

External links

• Haystack Project webpage
• Haystack at the SIMILE project webpage