Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18

[Jamie McCracken <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

Ross Burton wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:06 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > > I do wonder why nobody has taken a fast database-backed RDF triple store
> > > (from librdf), put a sparql-based frontend on it for queries (again from
> > > librdf) and used re-used a lot of code from both Beagle and Tracker for
> > > harvesting the metadata...
> > Its only an option if we can customise it to fit in with what we have.
> >
> > tracker is both an indexer with full text search and a metadata DB and 
> > right now librdf looks only relevant for the metadata DB side of things.
> >
> > In particular we can in tracker cross search both full text indexes and 
> > database indexes so we can quickly search for "get me all files that 
> > were modified in the last 7 days which have a keyword of Tracker and 
> > contains the word GNOME anywhere in it". Would this still be possible if 
> > I used librdf?
>
> librdf would give you a W3C "semantic web" compatible metadata store.
> Full-text indexing is separate but if you use the same URIs in the both
> the metadata store and the full-text index, then I can't see a reason
> why not.

okay I will investigate this weekend.


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