On 4/23/05, Jesse Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thinking about the metadatas and the problem it is to keep track of > > them (when moving your data on different OS, filesystem, etc.) I think > > it should be mandatory for étoilé applications to have a metadata > > "space" in their documents -- will be a lot easier that way :-D > > Are our documents going to be bundles? If so, then we can put the > metadata in the info.plist or we could have a metadata.xml or whatever > within the bundle and always search that file (as well as the contents > of the document itself, if it contains text) when doing a search. I > realize this doesn't work for files we want to be cross platform (PDFs, > JPGs, DOCs, etc), unless we're providing some kind of bundle wrapper > around these files that gets stripped off when we transfer them to > another drive containing a different OS (or via FTP) or send them via > email. The bundle method only works for files that are already bundles > (Keynote) or for filetypes we create as proprietary to our desktop -- > which might work if we provide export options into standard formats. > > Anyone know how Tiger is handling this? Are they even using metadata > outside of stuff already available (filename, type, date)? What about > BeOS -- how was its metadata handled?
I can only comment on Lucene in which the metadata is not portable. All the metadata in the system is in a single file (directory). If you want to support portable metadata, you probably need to find another index/search engine. Lucene cannot to it. Yen-Ju > > > J. > > > _______________________________________________ > Etoile-dev mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/etoile-dev >
