El sáb, 24-01-2004 a las 10:40, Curtis C. Hovey escribió: > On Sat, 2004-01-24 at 10:01, Lee Braiden wrote: > > > I am envisioning a plugable architecture that constructs a pipeline for > > > extracting and manufacturing metadata. OO.o files would be process in > > > something like this: > > > > > > src=my.swx > posix-extractor > mime-typer > > > > zip > src=content.xml > markup > text-summarizer > > > \ > > > > src=meta.xml > markup > office-meta > > > > > > I've been thinking that something like this would be great for version > > control, too. XML really lends itself to being version-controlled with > > diff. If we had a standard API for getting XML out of binaries, cvs > > and friends could suddenly take a big leap forward in terms of usefulness > > to modern apps :) > > Take a look at http://www.gnome.org/~seth/storage/features.html. Seth > Nickell envisioned a similar mechanism. Smart apps would use version > control in place of saving documents, opting instead to mark revisions. > Document collaboration would take a great leap forward. > > The metadata Db I want to create is very compatible with Storage. > Sometime in the future I image Medusa being a metadata search tool, and > metadata residing in Storage. I think it would be good if things like storage and medusa could be pushed down the software stack, sort of "in-the-filesystem" or as a dependable, ubiquitous low-level service. Please get in touch with Hans Reiser - he's working on this and perhaps collaboration could yield faster, better, more integrated results. -- Manuel Amador (Rudd-O) GPG key ID: 0xC1033CAD at keyserver.net
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