Re: A question about filters

["Alex Mac" <lots of mailing lists gmail com>]

On 28/04/07, Johann Petrak <johann petrak chello at> wrote:
> Is it possible to have multiple filters for a a group of files
> where each provides their own part of (meta)information about
> the files?
> For example, a user might have a collection of documents
> (e.g. PDF, plain text, OpenOffice) but there is also an
> application that stores meta information like authors,
> project, dates, internal numbers etc. that is associated
> with these documents.
> So ... would it be possible for the existing PDF, OpenOffice,
> Text etc. filters to provide the conventional information
> (e.g. the content) and for and *additional* filter to
> access the database and provide that additional information?
>
> How would a use then be able to query for files using those
> additional properties?
>
> I am considering using beeagle as the back-end for some
> inhouse dekstop search solution that would utilize
> additional information about files (not only documents)
> so something like this would be essential ...

soon beagle will support XMP sidecar files which will be able to
contain arbitrary metadata. So if you have a file "thing.foo" you
would create a file called "thing.foo.xmp" which contained whatever
properties you wanted.

It's still in development but hopefully it will be included in the next release