On Sat, 2007-11-24 at 14:59 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: > jamie wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-11-23 at 11:38 -0500, Sam Ruby wrote: > >> I'm looking to add better search support to Planet Venus[1]. I first > >> heard about tracker as it is the default for Ubuntu Gutsy. I see in the > >> documentation that there is a "user definable object store (for things > >> like notes, playlists, contacts, etc) complete with user-definable > >> properties". > >> > >> Taking a quick peek at the documentation, I see that the xml_filter uses > >> xsltproc to throw away all of the tags. I'd like to provide a different > >> filter that identifies some tags as user-definable properties. > >> > >> If somebody can point me in the right direction, I'd appreciate it. > > > > We are moving over to XESAM shortly which will deprecate some of our > > dbus interfaces > > > > The next major version of tracker (0.7.0) will support xesam and this > > will fundamentally change how metadata is handled and queried. > > > > If possible I would recommend you wait til after xmas for this by which > > time we should have xesam support in place > > > > more info on xesam can be found here: > > http://freedesktop.org/wiki/XesamAbout > > My initial interest is in loading the data. XESAM appears to be focused > on query (retrieval). > > Feeds tend to have some metadata that may be of interest. E.g.: titles, > dates, author, tags, license. I'd be interested in working initially on > an Atom to XESAM ontology mapping, which could then be generalized to > RSS 1.0 and RSS 2.0. > > I'm comfortable coding in C, Python, XSLT, sh, and other languages. > Working with daily builds and regenerating indexes due to incompatible > schema changes are not a problem. >
ok but xesam 2 will deal with app/user metadata Adopting the xesam ontology is a good start and is likely to be something we will work on soon jamie _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
