Rob
Did you notice the part where he was using OS X Tiger Spotlight to
instantly search both content & metadata?
For a web site, this could be a total replacement for Verity (or
whatever).
You could just place a Mac somewhere on the network & move all your web
content to it.
When files are placed on this Mac they are automatically cataloged both
content & metadata. (includes text, .doc. mp3, jpg, pdf. xls, htm,
cfm.) etc.
You never need to create a collection (it's automatic), and it is
always up to date.
And, a metadata/content search server is always running
Then, you can use this Mac as a search server from CF.
You use cfexecute to issue a mdfind command-- something like:
<cfset searchTerm = "'Ray Charles'" />
<cfexecute
name="mdfind"
arguments="searchTerm"
variable="searchResults"
timeout="200">
</cfexecute>
<cfoutput>
<pre>
#searchResults#
</pre>
</cfoutput>
Returns all the paths to files referencing "Ray Charles"
*
*
*
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles/VH1 8 Track Flashback - The On/In
The Summertime.mp3
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Blues Brothers
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Blues Brothers/Unknown
Album/Shake Your Tail Feather.mp3
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Charles Aznavour
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Charles Aznavour/Unknown
Album/For Mamma.mp3
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Hank Williams Jr
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Hank Williams Jr/Complete C&W
Recordings 59/09 Two Old Cats Like Us.mp3
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Van Morrison
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Van Morrison/Unknown
Album/Tura-Lura-Lural (That's An Irish Lullaby).mp3
*
*
*
Then, if you want to see the metadata associated with an mp3 file we
use (cfexecute) the mdls command:
mdls '/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Blues Brothers/Unknown
Album/Shake Your Tail Feather.mp3'
/Volumes/My_iPod/iTunes/Ray Charles & Blues Brothers/Unknown
Album/Shake Your Tail Feather.mp3 -------------
kMDItemAttributeChangeDate = 2005-01-12 05:38:36 -0800
kMDItemAudioBitRate = 128
kMDItemAudioChannelCount = 2
kMDItemAudioSampleRate = 44100
kMDItemAuthors = ("Ray Charles & Blues Brothers")
kMDItemContentType = "public.mp3"
kMDItemContentTypeTree = (
"public.mp3",
"public.audio",
"public.audiovisual-content",
"public.data",
"public.item",
"public.content"
)
kMDItemDisplayName = "Shake Your Tail Feather"
kMDItemDurationSeconds = 168
kMDItemFSContentChangeDate = 2004-12-20 16:48:47 -0800
kMDItemFSCreationDate = 2004-06-10 17:23:08 -0700
kMDItemFSCreatorCode = 0
kMDItemFSFinderFlags = 0
kMDItemFSInvisible = 0
kMDItemFSLabel = 0
kMDItemFSName = "Shake Your Tail Feather.mp3"
kMDItemFSNodeCount = 0
kMDItemFSOwnerGroupID = 99
kMDItemFSOwnerUserID = 501
kMDItemFSSize = 2697344
kMDItemFSTypeCode = 0
kMDItemID = 42327
kMDItemKind = "MP3 Audio File"
kMDItemLastUsedDate = 2004-12-20 16:48:47 -0800
kMDItemTitle = "Shake Your Tail Feather"
kMDItemTotalBitRate = 128
kMDItemUsedDates = (2004-12-20 16:48:47 -0800)
The above will work if CF is running on the Mac -- a little more
involved to setup the Mac as a separate server.
Anyway, "we gonna' mdfind Ray Charles" wherever he is-- even in a file
named MyCD1.mp3 (and even in this email or the .cfm above.)
The search server and datastore is built into OS X and is based on
SQLite rdbms.
The indexing scheme uses normalized, generic fields to describe
metadata elements so that the Author(s) of a word doc are equivalent to
the Artist(s) on a song. You use a search notation similar to SQL
Select syntax.
When OS X Tiger ships (sometime before July 2005) I suspect that there
will be custom tags to do the search (I'll write one if necessary).
This is really cool & fast!
I bought a Sponge Mac Square Bob (Mac mini) that I plan to dedicate as
a search server for just this purpose
Dick
P.S. 'lo to K
On Jan 11, 2005, at 11:55 PM, Rob wrote:
> That was a great keynote thanks for posting it Dick - I've got my copy
> of iWork on the way :-D
>
> On Tue, 11 Jan 2005 19:43:40 -0800, Dick Applebaum
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> I've been around micro/desktop computers since 1978.
>>
>> Here is someone who still believes:
>>
>> http://stream.apple.akadns.net/
>>
>> Dick
>
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