On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:46 -0400, Joe Shaw wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 13:49 +0100, Ross Burton 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... > > Do you mean pulling the data out of Beagle or Tracker and putting it > into a separate RDF store? > > This is something we've wanted to do in Beagle for some time. It has > never really been fleshed out whether the right thing to do here is > build an RDF graph on top of the existing store when presenting it to > users or to keep a separate store for this. Keeping a separate store > makes searching a lot more difficult, though, unless you're searching > only one store at a time. Instead of whatever database you are currently using to store metadata, use a triplestore. You are half-way there with the current (pseudocode) Subject.AddProperty("dc.title", sometitle). Ross -- Ross Burton mail: ross burtonini com jabber: ross burtonini com www: http://www.burtonini.com./ PGP Fingerprint: 1A21 F5B0 D8D0 CFE3 81D4 E25A 2D09 E447 D0B4 33DF
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