|
Hi, I have posted the message below, concerning metadata standardization, to freedesktop.org's xdg list. Your comments there would be appreciated. Thanks, Anders Feder -------- Original Message --------
I would like to propose a new standards activity: metadata access and storage. The mission is as follows: "Define a single, unified interface for access to all metadata on the desktop. Then extend it to support insertion (storage) of metadata too." There has been at least one previous effort of this kind that I know of (Xesam), but most parts of it seems to have been either consumed by other projects (NEPOMUK), or abandoned completely (notably the query language). In any case, the state of affairs appears to be that there is no standard interface for accessing metadata: Evolution, Nautilus, etc. all still exist as separate silos - not as a unified whole which can be queried through a single interface. - It's 2011, and I still have to manually copy contact information from Empathy to Thunderbird. Benjamin Otte gave a pretty good review of the situation (as far as GNOME goes) here: http://blogs.gnome.org/otte/2009/07/23/semantic-desktop/ As always, all options are open, but my own tentative proposal – titled Semantk – will give you an idea of what I have in mind: http://www.semantk.org/ How would you solve this problem? -- -Anders Feder |