2008/6/23 Wouter Bolsterlee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008-06-23 klockan 21:01 skrev Anders Feder: >> A subset, yes, but as Wouter points out Tracker is XESAM-based which >> 'only' cover simple query cases, so certain advanced SPARQL queries (in >> particular 'join'-like operations) would map rather poorly into XESAM. >> >> How such queries would be handled by a translator is undefined. In >> theory, one could do something like constructing the actual graph >> resulting from i.e. a join operation in memory, but that is really quite >> a hack that doesn't scale well for big data sets. >> >> I've communicated with both Tracker and XESAM maintainers and they >> appear quite skeptical about RDF/SPARQL support in the short- to >> mid-term. > > The Tracker developers have shown to be particularly ignorant of any > RDF/SPARQL related subjects in the past. See for example the messages I've > sent to the "Proposing Tracker for inclusion into GNOME 2.18" thread [1] on > desktop-devel-list one and a half years ago: [2--7]. The messages linked to > are all by me, but you may also find the comments by Ross Burton useful. The > thread is quite large so don't even try to read all of it... :) > > mvrgr, Wouter > > [1] > http://mail.gnome.org/archives/desktop-devel-list/2006-October/msg00175.html > [2] http://markmail.org/message/nj6ecn42xda4sq6x > [3] http://markmail.org/message/3hbuioopc5ib7uuq > [4] http://markmail.org/message/brt26slkzbwew3dw > [5] http://markmail.org/message/rl4ae2quaes6e5pd > [6] http://markmail.org/message/roa6qjkhomi4cgpw > [7] http://markmail.org/message/2jt5l2yz6wyxdqux
However insulted some people will feel by Wouter's comments I beg; can we please stop this thread here? Cheers, Mikkel _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
