Re: [Usability] GnomeShell - Recent Documents

[Natan Yellin <aantny gmail com>]

Hi Dan,

On Mon, Jun 22, 2009 at 11:24 PM, Dan Brickley <danbri danbri org> wrote:

http://live.gnome.org/GnomeZeitgeist says

"Architecture

   * Experiment with Tracker, Soylent, and Empathy.
   * Use an RDF based backend to allow better semantic metadata. (E.g. Automatically tag files edited at a given time with the name of the Hamster project that was worked on at the same time.) "

Do you know if they've got to the RDF piece yet?

No, we haven't. (I'm the one who added that TODO item to the page but I was busy with school exams until late last week.)
As of now, we're planning on implementing it using Tracker 0.7 (which has a RDF store with support for SPARQL queries) as an optional alternative to our own vanilla Sqlite backend.

(I don't know if it's of any interest to you, but I also spoke to David Barth from Canonical last week and he expressed an interest in hacking together a CouchDB based backend in the coming weeks.)

For more information, you might be interested in an article that I wrote for the next edition of the GNOME Journal, which will be published next month. The draft can be found online here.

Regards,
Natan