Re: [Tracker] Venus tracker?

[jamie <jamiemcc blueyonder co uk>]

On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 14:59 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
> jamie wrote:
> > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 11:38 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote:
> > > I'm looking to add better search support to Planet Venus[1].  I first 
> > > heard about tracker as it is the default for Ubuntu Gutsy.  I see in the 
> > > documentation that there is a "user definable object store (for things 
> > > like notes, playlists, contacts, etc) complete with user-definable 
> > > properties".
> > >
> > > Taking a quick peek at the documentation, I see that the xml_filter uses 
> > > xsltproc to throw away all of the tags.  I'd like to provide a different 
> > > filter that identifies some tags as user-definable properties.
> > >
> > > If somebody can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it.
> >
> > We are moving over to XESAM shortly which will deprecate some of our
> > dbus interfaces
> >
> > The next major version of tracker (0.7.0) will support xesam and this
> > will fundamentally change how metadata is handled and queried.
> >
> > If possible I would recommend you wait til after xmas for this by which
> > time we should have xesam support in place
> >
> > more info on xesam can be found here:
> > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/XesamAbout
>
> My initial interest is in loading the data.  XESAM appears to be focused 
> on query (retrieval).
>
> Feeds tend to have some metadata that may be of interest.  E.g.: titles, 
> dates, author, tags, license.  I'd be interested in working initially on 
> an Atom to XESAM ontology mapping, which could then be generalized to 
> RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0.
>
> I'm comfortable coding in C, Python, XSLT, sh, and other languages. 
> Working with daily builds and regenerating indexes due to incompatible 
> schema changes are not a problem.

ok but xesam 2 will deal with app/user metadata

Adopting the xesam ontology is a good start and is likely to be
something we will work on soon

jamie