Ross Burton wrote: > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 14:06 +0100, Jamie McCracken wrote: >>> I do wonder why nobody has taken a fast database-backed RDF triple store >>> (from librdf), put a sparql-based frontend on it for queries (again from >>> librdf) and used re-used a lot of code from both Beagle and Tracker for >>> harvesting the metadata... >> Its only an option if we can customise it to fit in with what we have. >> >> tracker is both an indexer with full text search and a metadata DB and >> right now librdf looks only relevant for the metadata DB side of things. >> >> In particular we can in tracker cross search both full text indexes and >> database indexes so we can quickly search for "get me all files that >> were modified in the last 7 days which have a keyword of Tracker and >> contains the word GNOME anywhere in it". Would this still be possible if >> I used librdf? > > librdf would give you a W3C "semantic web" compatible metadata store. > Full-text indexing is separate but if you use the same URIs in the both > the metadata store and the full-text index, then I can't see a reason > why not.
okay I will investigate this weekend. -- Mr Jamie McCracken http://jamiemcc.livejournal.com/ _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
