= Welcome to the !PalaceHotel.org project =

This is where [http://www.palacehotel-software.com PalaceHotel Software] discusses their own !PalaceHotel™ software projects. We expose or [wiki:philosophy general philosophy here]; or you can also read our [http://blog.palacehotel.org/ blog].

!PalaceHotel™ revolves around the idea of [http://blog.palacehotel.org/?p=52 Computer-Aided Personal Intelligence], which involves a certain number of problems:
 - personal information that resides both on people's own devices (computers, iPhones,...) and online (gmail, flickr,...) must be accessible in a single, unified database in order to be mined sensibly [wiki:collect (more...)]
 - personal data must be stored in such a way that it is possible to cross-reference it; [wiki:store (more...)]
 - it must be possible to filter and re-arrange this information to create an appropriate model for the data mining processes; [wiki:filter (more...)]
 - confidentiality must be ensured; [wiki:confidentiality (more...)]
 - finally this information must be turned into meaningful visual renditions in order for users to gain new insights and learn about themselves when they consult it; [wiki:visualization (more...)]
 - ideally, these insights should help us develop better behavioural patterns, improve our well-being and relationships with our environment, which is what Personal Intelligence is all about. [wiki:improve (more...)]

In order to address these issues, !PalaceHotel™ is composed of a number of [wiki:componentsrationale components]:
 - [wiki:PIA a web repository], whose responsibility it is to centralize all of a user's data (open source); this repository is made of modules and is designed to be easily extendable
 - [wiki:PIAF protocols and APIs] to let services access this repository in a secure and confidential way (open source);
 - any number of user-facing applications that let users [wiki:feeds configure and feed] the repository with their data;
 - [wiki:PIServices "personal intelligence services"], which connect to the web repository using secure protocols; they typically run on the server-side and can be developed by third parties;
 - any number of user-facing apps for filtering and [wiki:visualization vizualizing] the outputs of the PI services