Re: [Tracker] Gnome Ontologies

[Martyn Russell <martyn lanedo com>]

On 02/06/13 12:17, אנטולי קרסנר wrote:
> Hello,
>
> Today I stumbled upon the following page:
>
> https://live.gnome.org/Tracker/Discussion/GnomeOntologies
>
> One of the problems I had with GTG was that I could integrate other TODO
> apps with it through Semantic Desktop, and now it looks like GTG is
> getting Tracker support through an ontology.
>
> I've been developing a task/project-management app. It's somewhat
> different from most todo apps I've seen for Gnome/GNU, but it uses very
> similar concepts. So I want to use the task ontology written for GTG.
> But I have many additions which this ontology doesn't have.
>
> For example, things like due date and start date may be bound to bigger
> time plans, "timelines", which allow for easier project-level control of
> time, and efficient time management.
>
> I expect to have many other new features, especially when users offer
> their usage patterns. These suggestions will naturally accumulate into
> generally useful features which I'd like to export into RDF data and
> send to Tracker.
>
>
> So I've been wondering: Currently those new ontologies seem to target
> specific apps. Is there a chance I propose updates and additions to the
> ontologies too?

Yes, we'll happily accept ontology updates and improvements.

> I mean, I don't work on any official Gnome module, but some generally
> useful and common task-related classes and concepts would allow much
> better integration, while simple apps can ignore what they don't use.
> Otherwise advanced features of time management wouldn't not just be
> ignored, but files would also get corrupted if one app edits data in a
> way which doesn't match the original app's data structure (e.g. open a
> time-managed project in a simple TODO app and change due dates manually,
> this could do permanent damage to the plans and the original app
> wouldn't be able to edit the project anymore).

Well, so long as the ontology is flexible enough to cater for apps, 
everyone is happy. Tasks can't be as complicated as SMS/MMS/email/IM and 
all the messaging ontology we had to create some years ago for Nokia. So 
I am confident we should be able to accommodate ;)

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Regards,
Martyn

Founder and CEO of Lanedo GmbH.