DeepaMehta

DeepaMehta is reviewed in "Web 2.0 -- Youth Online as Educational Challenge" (in German). In his chapter "Learning Tools for the Web 2.0 Generation" co-editor Franz Josef Röll writes: "DeepaMehta is a suitable learning environment because the screen content and layout is individually constituted by the user itself. [...] At any moment the screen reflects the individual learning situation as a whole."

The book was published on November 15, 2008, by kopaed, Munich.

DeepaMehta 2.0b8 has been released on November 1, 2008 and is available for download. New features since DeepaMehta 2.0b7 include (see details in the release notes):

• Remarkably simplified set up
• Extended team functions
• New application: shared calendars
• Extended email application
• Usability: easier navigation in search results
• For developers: convenient build and configuration management / more flexible HTML generator

We like to thank all the contributors and supporters.

In summer 2008 a group of media and computing students created a hypermedia backend with DeepaMehta for an information system for visitors to the penguin house at Berlin Zoological Garden. A Flash-based touch display was utilized as frontend. The application prototype ("SemKingPeng") was developed in the context of the BAER project.

BAER is an interdisciplinary R&D project that deals with new concepts for zoo management and is conducted by the University of Applied Sciences, Berlin (TFH).

→ "SemKingPeng" showcase (German)
→ Interactive demo (Flash required)
→ Article in BAER publication (PDF, 330 KB)
→ Download and create your own content

The DeepaMehta semantic desktop project exhibits at LinuxTag 2008 in hall 7.3b at booth 3.

LinuxTag, Europe's leading exhibition on Linux and Open Source takes place from May 28-31, 2008 at Berlin's Messezentrum unter dem Funkturm.