Re: Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18



On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:10 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote:
> > The RDF way would be (triples):
> > 
> >   hasPersonalEmail --- rdfs:subPropertyOf ---> hasEmail
> >   hasWorkEmail     --- rdfs:subPropertyOf ---> hasEmail
> >   RossBurton       --- hasWorkEmail       ---> ross openedhand com
> >   RossBurton       --- hasPersonalEmail   ---> ross burtonini com
> >   RossBurton       --- hasPersonalEmail   ---> ross burton gmail com
> > 
> > You would then be able to query on "hasEmail" and get all three addresses.
> > 
> 
> okay that looks nice.
> 
> I will add some kind of triple store (ie use three tables instead of the 
> current two tracker uses for metadata).
> 
> I dont have plans to turn tracker into a full semantic web thing but I 
> do want to take advantage of this in the simplest way possible.

There is very little difference between a database with three columns,
and a true triplestore ("full semantic web thing") apart from the fact
that the former has lots of RDF:s magic inherently available to it.
Which, incidently, is already coded up in librdf.

As I said before, librdf contains database-backed triplestores, RDF
query parses, and more.  All one needs to do is glue it together with an
indexer.

Ross
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