[weekly report] Week 3 : Allow Tracker to index online resources

[Adrien Bustany <madcat mymadcat com>]

Hi,
As for a lot other people, it's hard to get some spare time to work on 
my SOC project... My final school defense is in 4 or 5 days, after that 
I'll be in holidays (yay !).
I managed to progress a bit anywyay, the Flickr bridges now pulls the 
metadata, parses them (basically, we get the raw metadata in the EXIF 
format from Flickr, ie sometimes as a fraction whereas nmm expects a 
double), and insert them into Tracker. That's a rather small step 
compared to what I had a week ago (dump metadata to screen), but at 
least now the bridge is "usable".
I also have a few points to sort out :
1. Picture thumbnails : metadata is nice, but I think user will find the 
picture they're looking for more easily if there's a thumbnail. Flickr 
allows me to get a thumbnail (so we don't hog the bandwidth), but I need 
a way to "attach" it to the resource.
2. URL : I need a way to store the URL of the picture I got from 
Flickr... I guess the solution is to use nfo:fileUrl.

The next directions of my work are :
- Bridge manager : currently it's just a simple user space process, I 
should make it a Tracker plugin
- Other bridges : I'll have a look at Alexandre's progress on Google 
docs and take a decision according to that (work on Facebook or GDocs).

Cheers

Adrien