NEPOMUK gathered together researchers, industrial software developers and representative industrial users to develop a comprehensive solution for extending the personal desktop into a collaboration environment which supports both personal information management and the sharing across social or organizational relationships.

NEPOMUK's solution is called the Social Semantic Desktop. This new desktop is:

• Semantic: it makes knowledge processable by the computer
• Social: it supports the interconnection and exchange with other desktops and their users

NEPOMUK provides a freely available open-source framework with a set of standardized interfaces, ontologies and applications. NEPOMUK's standardized plug-in architecture combined with usage experiences opens up manifold business opportunities for new generic or domain-services