On Tuesday, September 6, 2011 00:44:42 Anders Feder wrote: > How would /you/ solve this problem?
by doing what the Nepomuk, Tracker, Strigi and Zeitgeist teams have been doing: continue to standardize on storage and increase interoperability between the various semantic projects. we don't need yet another semantic desktop project: they are huge, difficult beasts to get right and we already have a few very good tools which are, indeed, being used by many software packages. we also don't need yet another query language: there is a standardized one in the form of SPARQL (www.w3.org/TR/rdf-sparql-query) you mentioned problems in Evolution, Nautilus, Empathy and Thunderbird and i'm sure they exist as you noted. however, the issue is not the lack of availability of semantic desktop storage, access or interfaces to the engines that drive those parts, but the usage of them by applications such as the ones you used as examples. Zeitgeist's Journal, Akonadi, Dolphin, Plasma, Digikam, Gwenview and so many more have taken advantage of what exists and anjoy interoperable semantic data usage (storage, retrieval, display) today. my suggestion is that instead of creating more diversity in solutions, leading to less interoperability and dividing efforts into smaller (likely to be less sustainable individually) solutions that efforts go into improving the foundations of what is already there. -- Aaron J. Seigo humru othro a kohnu se GPG Fingerprint: 8B8B 2209 0C6F 7C47 B1EA EE75 D6B7 2EB1 A7F1 DB43 KDE core developer sponsored by Qt Development Frameworks
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