Re: Topaz, tagging and Semantic Desktop

[Joe Shaw <joeshaw novell com>]

Hi,

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 20:09 +0200, Piotr Gaczkowski wrote:
> Recently I came into the Topaz roadmap and a kind of presentation at 
> SourceForge. One of features that interests me is this tagging & Beagle 
> stuff.
> 
> It reminds me of the Semantic Web vision and it's derivative Semantic 
> Desktop. Have you, guys, thought about using RDF and related for this 
> work? And have you considered cooperation with Gnowsis [1]?

Using RDF to graph relationships between data is a key aspect to what we
want to do with Beagle and Dashboard.  Our focus right now though is
getting search right, and so metadata relationships have taken a back
seat to this for now.

I haven't looked at Gnowsis, I'll check it out later today.

Thanks,
Joe