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RDF For Desktop Metadata?

Posted by timothy on from the lateral-migration dept.

claes writes "There is an article "Metadata for the desktop" that suggests that RDF should be used to describe data in desktop environments. This is an interesting idea. RDF is already used by Creative Commons to attach license metadata to its works. Mozilla also supports it. RDF was designed for the web, but can it also find its way to the desktop? And what metadata is most important to describe?"

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  1. Re:What happened to forked files? by Jugalator · · Score: 4, Informative

    Forks? Would that be the NTFS streams?

    I think the new filesystem WinFS in Longhorn is basically just an evolution of NTFS streams to make them more accessible for the users. They've always been there, just not very accessible besides a limited set of text fields in the file properties dialog box in Windows. (i.e. they've always been able to hold custom data and have custom key names)

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  2. Re:FS support for metadata by pizzarobot · · Score: 5, Informative

    Actually, you can. To add a metadata item called "hidden.txt" to a file called picture.jpeg, just type on the command line:

    notepad picture.jpeg:hidden.txt

    Notepad should say that it "created the file." You should notice that no new files have been created: just look for them with explorer. But you can later open this "file" and read and edit it.

    You can do this with any file with any metadata name.