Re: [Tracker] tracker 1.2.4

[John Bestevaar <Josephus people net au>]

Hi All
As a non coding user type of follower of Tracker, this is very similar 
to how i would like to organise my thousands of images. Hence 
text/strings attributes stored within( metadata )image files.
Cheers JohnB

On 06/11/14 23:42, mlo wrote:
> Am 06.11.2014 um 12:28 schrieb Martyn Russell:
> > On 06/11/14 11:12, mlo wrote:
> > > Am 06.11.2014 um 11:36 schrieb Martyn Russell:
> > Hallo Martin,
> >
> > > > Tracker uses W3C standards for RDF ontologies using Nepomuk with
> > > > SPARQL to query and update the data.
> > > Thanks Martyn for that bit of information!
> > > I just learned from it, that Nepomuk is a common ground in KDE and GNOME.
> > > Am I right?
> > That depends a bit.
> >
> > > How close is the relation?
> > Tracker technically uses Nepomuk + extensions to fill the gaps we need
> > filling, so yes it does use the standard, but not the library or source
> > works from the KDE folks.
> >
> >  From what I've heard lately, KDE is moving away from Nepomuk, so it was
> > common but perhaps not now?
> >
> > As for libnepomuk*, I have no idea, but we're not using it.
> >
> > > Is there a chance of, e.g., dolphin using the same RDF-store as tracker?
> > Well, tracker is an RDF store. Perhaps you mean "using the Tracker RDF
> > store" ?
> >
> > > Would I break tracker if I tried it out?
> > Try away, but it's unclear to me what you think you would be breaking
> > here. If you have indexed content in Tracker and you change the
> > ontologies installed in to /usr/share/tracker/ontologies/ then the next
> > restart of tracker-store might spit errors out at you ;)
> well, my first attempt lead to reindexing my files with baloo
> I diden't want that because I would really like to stick with GNOME.
> dolphin can't (at least on first sight) use the tracker store.
> I was hoping I could keep tracker as backend and use dolphin to browse
> and search and (most important for me) to edit tags.
>
> even in this very short time I started to really like dolphin.
>
> > > I just browsed through the Nepomuk and semanticdesktop.org sites. There
> > > is a lot of good ideas and promising tools.
> > > The "DropBox" for one; I'd really like to try that one.
> > >
> > > What do you think?
> > I've not looked into it personally.
> >
> > > btw.: I used to do some research in a semantic-web project (called SWAP
> > > - you can still find it online - http://www.aifb.kit.edu/web/SWAP) years
> > > ago myself ...
> > What's your aim here, may I ask?
> of course you may :-)
>
> I very much like the idea of a semantic desktop.
>
> Having all your data dynamically grouped or structured by different
> (combineable) criteria, e.g., (self attached or automatically extracted)
> tags, timeline, type, location, etc. is really the way I would like to
> organise myself.
>
> unfortunately the (as of today) useable tools, that go in that direction
> are still quite far away from this vision.
>
> SWAP is just one of so many academic projects ...
> by chance I had a tiny part in this one ;-)
>
> Another project I worked with, used to calculate a semantic distance
> between documents and graphically arranged them according to this
> distance. So if you selected a document, the "closest relatives" based
> on a changeable set of criteria were grouped near it, others further
> away in a hyperbolic tree http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_tree.
> This one was an internal project at Dresdner Bank, so it is not
> available to the public.
>
> So that was a little trip on my motivation behind this discussion ...
>
> greets
> martin
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