Re: Introduction
Great! But good to know what's already out there... David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's a very interresting list. The field is much more widely studied than I had realized. I'm not sure that I particularly like any of the solutions listed, though. Several are abandoned, several have not been updated recently and I didn't see any that were extensible and done in Java. Donald -- Original message -- From: "Thomas J. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi Donald, I've seen other "Personal Information Management (PIM)" hardware and software, most recently and notably Palm's LifeDrive (http://www.palm.com/us/products/mobilemanagers/lifedrive/). I've also seen other USB-based PIMs that embed a small executable along with a (proprietary) database - mostly in the realm of 'personal medical records'. There's a list of links on "Who's working on Personal Information Management?" (July 2003) at: http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~rick/pim.htm Thomas
RE: Introduction
That's a very interresting list. The field is much more widely studied than I had realized. I'm not sure that I particularly like any of the solutions listed, though. Several are abandoned, several have not been updated recently and I didn't see any that were extensible and done in Java. Donald -- Original message -- From: "Thomas J. Taylor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi Donald, > > I've seen other "Personal Information Management (PIM)" hardware and > software, most recently and notably Palm's LifeDrive > (http://www.palm.com/us/products/mobilemanagers/lifedrive/). I've also seen > other USB-based PIMs that embed a small executable along with a > (proprietary) database - mostly in the realm of 'personal medical records'. > > There's a list of links on "Who's working on Personal Information > Management?" (July 2003) at: > http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~rick/pim.htm > > Thomas
RE: Introduction
Hi Donald, I've seen other "Personal Information Management (PIM)" hardware and software, most recently and notably Palm's LifeDrive (http://www.palm.com/us/products/mobilemanagers/lifedrive/). I've also seen other USB-based PIMs that embed a small executable along with a (proprietary) database - mostly in the realm of 'personal medical records'. There's a list of links on "Who's working on Personal Information Management?" (July 2003) at: http://www.iis.ee.ic.ac.uk/~rick/pim.htm Thomas -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 23, 2006 5:46 PM To: Derby Discussion Subject: Re: Introduction That is a good question, Dave. First of all, I'll be blunt, I don't necessarily trust either Google or Microsoft. Second, though searchable is certainly a good idea, it isn't browseable. For really old stuff, I might not be able to remember any sufficiently distinct criteria in order to be able to find what I'm looking for. On the desktop and in desktop apps, tools for filing and managing information objects are all one-dimensional. Also, the desktop search approach does not break apart information that is only together because it comes from the same source. Mail messages are still stored in mailbox files, documents in some arbitrary folder. Am I making any sense here? Thanks, Donald -- Original message -- From: David Van Couvering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Very interesting! > > I ask this because it will be asked: how do you distinguish this > (other than it being open source and portable) from Google Desktop and > the stuff that is coming out in Windows Vista where basically your > entire filesystem is tied in with a relational database (MS SQL > Server) and is fully indexable/queryable?
Re: Introduction
That is a good question, Dave. First of all, I'll be blunt, I don't necessarily trust either Google or Microsoft. Second, though searchable is certainly a good idea, it isn't browseable. For really old stuff, I might not be able to remember any sufficiently distinct criteria in order to be able to find what I'm looking for. On the desktop and in desktop apps, tools for filing and managing information objects are all one-dimensional. Also, the desktop search approach does not break apart information that is only together because it comes from the same source. Mail messages are still stored in mailbox files, documents in some arbitrary folder. Am I making any sense here? Thanks, Donald -- Original message -- From: David Van Couvering <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Very interesting! > > I ask this because it will be asked: how do you distinguish this (other > than it being open source and portable) from Google Desktop and the > stuff that is coming out in Windows Vista where basically your entire > filesystem is tied in with a relational database (MS SQL Server) and is > fully indexable/queryable?
Re: Introduction
Very interesting! I ask this because it will be asked: how do you distinguish this (other than it being open source and portable) from Google Desktop and the stuff that is coming out in Windows Vista where basically your entire filesystem is tied in with a relational database (MS SQL Server) and is fully indexable/queryable? David [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello everyone. My name is Donald McLean and I am a software engineer at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Baltimore Maryland. I have been using Derby + Hibernate for a couple of personal projects and have recently started using it at work. Those who frequent the Wiki may have noticed my contibution of a simple framework that I created to simplify using Hibernate with Derby. For months, I have been kicking around a number of problems that I constantly run into and so I have started working on a small project. At Jean's encouragement, I am posting my reasonings for starting this project below. I think that this project is a good use for Hibernate + Derby. I have already started working on it and plan on contributing it to Apache. I would be interested in hearing the thoughts of other members of the Derby community. Take care, Donald Why LifeCache? In our modern information driven society, I find myself often unable to locate information that I need and that I have. It may be in an email that I forgot to file or that is not filed in the folder that I expected it to be in or perhaps I need a document on my office computer - or my home computer. Whatever the cause, I need a new way to store, manage and organize the constant flow of information that I want - or need - to keep track of. Specific cases for LifeCache: When I read POP email, it gets downloaded to the computer that I read it on - but I need to be able to move it, or at least access it, on other computers. My email account is getting full, but if I download it to one computer I won't be able to access it on any other computers. My email account is getting full in part because there are obsolete emails filling it up. I want to be able to mark emails so that they will automatically come up for review on a periodic basis, on a certain date or after a certain event has occurred. A new guy has been assigned to my project and I have a collection of documents, notes, callendar entries and emails that he will want to have access to. I want to push a button and grant him access to them - or give him the option to download the whole batch to his computer. I have a long email discussing several topics. I want to be able to associate it with all of those topics without having more than one copy of it. I have an email with a text part and a large attachment. I want to be able to keep everything EXCEPT for the attachment. I have all this information that is related - except that it is scattered amongst text documents, HTML documents, PDF documents, emails, chat logs... I want change tracking for something that isn't a Microsoft Word document. Maybe it's an email, maybe it's a text document. I don't trust someone else to store my data but now that I have hundreds gigabytes in disk space and high-speed internet access, why should I need to?
