Do we really want traditional multi-user for personal storage?

Would blockchain consensus be more in-line with the merkle tree and claims
based storage at keeping multi-user complexity at bay. Thus Perkeep
patterned more as an IPFS private storage system than a traditional
multi-user database (which was not designed for selective distributed
sharing).

On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 7:35 AM Senthil Kumar <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have a newbie question, would it be possible to host perkeep as a
> storage for multiuser/multi-Tenent applications, planning to build a
> perkeep based mobile app in a software as a service business model
>
> Kind regards
> Senthil Kumar
>
>
>
> On Sat, Aug 25, 2018 at 1:52 AM Dirk Sperrle <[email protected]>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Mathieu,
>>
>> Thank you for the insights.
>>
>> For me this sounds promising for a starting point :-)
>>
>> > [...] However, we haven't done anything in particular yet to make
>> Perkeep multi-user, so as of now they are some gaps in the implementation 
>> that
>> probably wouldn't let you make it work like that
>>
>> So at the moment this would result in a per user instance? Would be a
>> fair starting point.
>>
>> >> . have a workflow with auto tagging
>> > I don't really know what that means.
>>
>> The idea behind this is for example, to automatically/periodically scan
>> all new images and process the EXIF data, creating tags based on found
>> geodata. If no auto tagging could be done, mark the image as todo to be
>> manually tagged.
>>
>> I don't expect to have this implemented yet, but to have an API where a
>> self written service can connect to and will be able to perform above steps.
>>
>> Is there an API endpoint available, to connect e.g. with python or golang?
>>
>>
>> From what I understood, it should be possible to have a search page
>> showing objects with a "todo" tag, so this should be fine.
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Dirk
>>
>>
>>
>> Mathieu Lonjaret <[email protected]> schrieb am Sa., 25. Aug.
>> 2018, 03:11:
>>
>>> On 24 August 2018 at 23:05, Dirk Sperrle <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>> [...]
>>
>>
>>>
>>> None of this seems in disagreement with Perkeep model and mechanism,
>>> in theory. However, we haven't done anything in particular yet to make
>>> Perkeep multi-user, so as of now they are some gaps in the
>>> implementation that probably wouldn't let you make it work like that
>>>
>>>
>>> > Nice to have
>>> > . sharing of objects based on tagging, i.e. share all photos with tag
>>> family to all family group members
>>>
>>> both tagging and sharing work. So you should be able to search
>>> whatever tag, and then select the results, and share them
>>> specifically.
>>>
>>> > . automatically upload new images from smartphone to perkeep when at
>>> home.
>>>
>>> Yes, we have an android app that does that.
>>>
>>> > . have a workflow with auto tagging
>>>
>>> I don't really know what that means.
>>>
>>> > . force a manual workflow to tag new objects if auto tagging has no
>>> high confidence
>>>
>>> you can tag permanodes in the same time as you upload them, with the
>>> command-line tools.
>>>
>>> > . integration into music player daemon - having mpd access the stored
>>> an shared music
>>>
>>> I don't know how mpd works. if it works with files, then you might be
>>> able to make it work with the FUSE interface that mounts your
>>> permanodes as a filesystem.
>>>
>>> > . logically linked images in different quality levels
>>>
>>> yes, you could tag them together. or group them in a set, etc.
>>>
>>> > Thanks in advance for your ideas!
>>> > Regards
>>> > Dirk
>>>
>>> hth,
>>> Mathieu
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