Hi Philip,

> More information here:
>
>
https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker/Documentation/Examples/SPARQL/Email

Actually, moving from there "back to the top"
(https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/Tracker/Documentation/) is what gave me
the important information (though at the end): "Original NEPOMUK
ontologies <http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/>" vs. "Tracker
version of the NEPOMUK ontologies
<http://library.gnome.org/devel/ontology/unstable/>". If I had read that
before, I wouldn't have started this thread about "a mail not being a
document". So Martyn's solution to change the query in tracker-needle
is, of course, the proper solution for the tracker project.

If this change finally reaches my Linux distribution I'll be happy and
everything is well. Nevertheless, I'd like to add an outsider's personal
impression. If it is inappropriate for this mailing list, I apologize.

Though I have learned a bit about the ideas of the "semantic web" as an
approach to "share information between applications" in these last few
days, I doubt that the idea will really take off if the participating
parties cannot agree on a data model for the information to be shared.
Your remark "Our NMO ontology is indeed not the same as Nepomuk. That's
because Nepomuk's is incomplete." leaves me with the strong impress that
some philosophical struggle is going on behind the scenes. The fact that
both parties involved claim exactly the same formal namespace (!)
(@prefix nfo:
<http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nfo#> in
33-nfo.ontology and
xmlns:nfo="http://www.semanticdesktop.org/ontologies/2007/03/22/nfo#"; in
semantic desktop's files) deepens this impression.

>From what I have grasped so far, it would probably be a much better idea
to have tracker-needle implementing the search field in gnome-shell than
all those search plugins popping up now. But as a programmer I wonder
whether tracker is firm enough ground and whether I should invest time
in implementing tracker miners for additional items or a gnome-shell
plugin for searching my mails.

 - Michael

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