Hi, On Fri, 2006-07-07 at 17:32 +0200, Enrico Minack wrote: > Joe, it would be great if these metadata would be stored as RDF. Both > the metadata as well as their schemas can be represented as RDF, which > then makes the RDF store the perfect exchange mechanism between all > applications generating these metadata, and applications using them. We > use that approach in our NEPOMUK project, and it works very well to > integrate contributions from different project partners.
RDF is a definite possibility for this. I am looking at the SemWeb library for this. (http://taubz.for.net/code/semweb/) Another possibility is to store it in a more straightforward relational database and then build RDF from that later. (This was more or less our current plan with Lucene.) Like I said, I'll have to build a prototype and see what works and scales and what doesn't. Fortunately I have millions of documents I regularly test on, so I should be able to give it a good once over. One thing I'm not sure on is that you talk about RDF being a perfect "exchange mechanism" for your data. Do you mean sharing common namespaces like Dublin Core? Common ways of expressing RDF like RDF-XML or N3? Or something else? Joe _______________________________________________ Dashboard-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/dashboard-hackers
