Re: [Tracker] Tracker and Contacts - use case discussion

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com>]

Hi,

On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:59 AM, Adrien Bustany <abustany gnome org> wrote:

>
>> There is currently a completely unbalanced
>> situation between the possibilities offered by Tracker and RDF, and the
>> GUIs
>> using that :/
>>
>>
> True :(
> I suspect GUI vs sparql is going to run into some of the same problems as
> linked data vs displaying it generically + usefully in firefox will - but
> at
> least having a richer GUI library is going to let you go way beyond what
> HTML lets you do.

It is indeed hard to expose the underlying linked nature of the data, and it
is even harder to do it in a relevant way :) A common approach is to use
faceted search. Graphically exposing the graph syntax might be interesting
too, though I have yet to see it done well...

 The graph is just an internal convenience (infrastructure). What we should expose are small bits of extra information in different applications. That is the real value. If the user wonders how is possible that his documents are linked with locations, or the music with people, then he will discover that under it there is a graph structure with the information.

 So far all the attemps to build a direct graph-view (e.g. any ontology editor) have failed miserably.

 Regards,

Ivan