SWickyNotes is an open-source desktop application for semantically annotating web pages and digital libraries.

It bases on Semantic Web standards to allow annotations to be more than simple textual "sticky notes": they can contain semantically structured data that can be later used to meaningfully browse the annotated contents. This is why we call them "SWicky Notes" (Semantic Web Sticky Notes).

In short, with SWickyNotes you can:

Attach simple textual comments to a web page;

Create semanticaly structured knowledge within your notes, using precise relations and terms from one or more vocabularies (ontologies). For example you can say that a "page A has been written by Bob", "page A defines the concept of Freedom", or that "page A contradicts/agrees with page B";

Do both these things, but referring to single words, sentences or images in a web pages;

Collect all your notes into a digital notebook and share it on the World Wide Web;

Import notebooks shared by your friend or collegues;

Browse the web on the basis of the semantic relations created by you or by your friends/collegues. The strucured knowledge contained in the swicky notes form a conceptual network, a graph that you can visualize and navigate in different ways.

SWickyNotes is the evolution of Philospace, an application developed in the framework of the Discovery EU project.