Re: Importing XMP data with SemWeb
- From: Warren Baird <photogeekmtl gmail com>
- To: F-Spot list <f-spot-list gnome org>
- Subject: Re: Importing XMP data with SemWeb
- Date: Thu, 20 Apr 2006 09:49:24 -0400
Larry Ewing wrote:
Sadly, as far as I know, what I said and what you pasted here mean the
same thing. It would definitely be preferable to nest the blank node in
the subject and avoid the nodeID altogether but I think this is a valid
serialization (I'd be happy to be proven wrong). Improving the SemWeb
output would be welcome of course.
Gah... It definitely looks like you were right. I read part of the
RDF primer last night and I've determined 3 things:
1. I need to do a *lot* more reading on RDF to be able to write an
import mechanism that deals with general XMP data
2. I don't really care about importing general XMP data - my current
approach of just treating any rdf:Bag as a container of tags is good
enough for me (and probably 75% of the other people who want to import
metadata into f-spot)
3. XML schemas designed by committee are *scary* things...
I'm afraid I don't have *that* much time to work on f-spot, so I need to
focus my effort on the gaps that are affecting me the most.
I'm going to finish off my current import work --- it's done in a fairly
general way - I've added a GetTagNames method to MetadataStore - it
currently just returns an array containing every string that shows up
inside a bag, but if someone else cares enough and knows enough RDF/XMP,
they could update it to do 'the right thing' and the rest of the import
mechanism would just work...
I'll send some patches in for review as soon as I can...
Warren
p.s.> I just wanted to take this opportunity to say the whole thing
makes me sad again.
Yeah, it makes me sad too --- RDF and XMP seem to be a whole lot more
complicated than they really need to be... *sigh*
Warren
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