Nepomuk

Nepomuk is a name that can refer to several distinct subjects. In the Czech Republic, Nepomuk is a town and municipality in the Plzeň-South District of the Plzeň Region, located in western Bohemia. The town has a historic center and cultural monuments, and its population is in the low thousands. The toponym is connected in Czech tradition with Saint John of Nepomuk, a 14th-century martyr venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church; his cult spread across Bohemia, and many churches and statues bear his name, contributing to the popularization of the form Nepomuk in the region.

In the field of computing, Nepomuk was the name of a KDE project dedicated to a semantic desktop framework. It aimed to provide a platform for metadata management, tagging, and interlinked data through ontologies, enabling more advanced search and knowledge organization within the KDE ecosystem. The project was part of KDE's effort in the KDE 4 era and drew on RDF-based storage and related technologies. In later years, Nepomuk was largely superseded by other technologies and is no longer the central semantic desktop component in modern KDE releases.