Re: [Tracker] Tags, metadata and date fields

[Nikolaus Rath <Nikolaus rath org>]

Adrien Bustany <abustany-rDKQcyrBJuzYtjvyW6yDsg public gmane org> writes:
> Information is entered in Tracker either by "miners" or directly by
> applications. The miners are small modules that crawl data sources
> (for example, your filesystem) and insert data in Tracker. Currently
> Tracker ships with two miners, one crawling the FS and another the
> installed applications. So basically what you have to do is configure
> the FS miner to ensure it's crawling the right dirs for you.

But this miner is going to add only the plain text contents of the
files, right? Or does it e.g. look in the extended attributes for
additional metadata?


> If you want to add custom triples in the store, you can use the
> tracker-sparql tool.

Just to make sure: my metadata, keywords and timestamps would be such
additional triplets, right?


Best,

   -Nikolaus

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