Re: [Tracker] Semantic Desktop for Gnome

[Ivan Frade <ivan frade gmail com>]

Hi Anatoly,

 Glad to hear about your plans. Tracker was build with use cases like those in mind.

On Mon, May 6, 2013 at 2:22 PM, אנטולי קרסנר <tombackton gmail com> wrote:

Hello Tracker team,

The issue is, this technology does its best when all apps integrate.
Clearly there should be a desktop-wide system for semantic data storage,
but Gnome doesn't have one yet.

Yes, it does. It is Tracker :)

 

Do you think I can use a possibly augmented tracker-based data store
as a general purpose desktop-wide data storage interface, for all apps
to use? Clearly there should be a unified interface, and if Tracker
already has useful parts implemented, much work can be saved by using
existing tools you wrote.

You won't need to augment it much. Tracker as it is solves most of your storage problems. It is a shared storage accessible from any application (in the user session) and the information is represented as a graph. You can link resources coming from different sources and so on.

Maybe you need to tune the ontologies, but that shouldn't be dramatic.

 

Looking forward to hearing your opinion,

Tracker was created as backend for applications like you were describing, but for multiple reasons we never wrote the actual "semantic apps". It is great if you can use it and show the potential of linking information.

We are glad to help and receive feedback. Do not hesitate on report bugs and discuss in this mailing list or in the IRC channel.

Best regards,

Ivan