How come it's not already taken as given that the primary thing an operating system *does* is, you know, *know where all its data is*?
as usually on slashdot: reading the original post does help: The NEPOMUK project did just that - id added the metadata database into the KDE system, on a level as deep as KIO or other backend services.
It is as if "on the operating system level", but technically not (because operating systems usually care about memory allocation, processes, threading, and other low-level business involving indivudal bits and not high-level filesystems or data)
I'm afraid you'll probably have to wait until some enterprising 3rd party to grab the source and build some of the technology into a different product.
Don't be afraid anymore - this was actually the plan of the semantic desktop all the time. For instance, a product of the project is http://aperture.sf.net/ which is built-in into http://eclipse.org/SMILA at the moment.
Also, Ansgar Bernardi (the project lead who was interviewed in the TR article) says:
A spinoff company is also in the works...
well, I really hope this spinnoff company works out!;-)
The Nepomuk Web site wants to make me chew my own arm off.
ha, good one.
Why why can't researchers spend 15 minutes thinking about how to convey the importance and excitement of what they are trying to do in terms of practical examples.
speed. details. thats up to optimizers.
From what I know about all this, I would say that you get an open, w3c standardized destkop search engine. A slow fruit, but it is open and can grow, compare that to patented-getNervousBeforePublishingWinFS-microsoft.
probably the query thing is possible, but you have to learn the standardized SPARQL language first (oh joy) but wait and see:
Can I get anything to show all photos with my wife in them that I've rated four or above?
someone who has programming skills and also wants to see the pictures of his wife and rating>4 will hopefully help us all by implementing the search UI:-)
/slashdot-humour=ON ... and of course there is a general interest in pictures of your wife rated 4+ /slashdot-humour=OFF
eNom also allows you to get the Auth code, and I started to move my domains. All looks fine by using eNom, but I am still curious if something goes wrong.
I had three domains at registerfly and clicked the links provided in eNoms e-mails to registerfly accounts.
They read like this: ".... registerfly is going down in flames... click this link to move your domain to eNom.... have a nice day... "
Note that I got the e-mail only once, and the links in the e-mails contained some authorisation code that was bound to the domain names. I don't know if it is now better at eNom or if I can push the domains from eNom to somewhere else, but at least it seems I am out of registerfly... or, am I?
who knows. More thoughts in my blog. http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/3348089/
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How come it's not already taken as given that the primary thing an operating system *does* is, you know, *know where all its data is*?
as usually on slashdot: reading the original post does help: The NEPOMUK project did just that - id added the metadata database into the KDE system, on a level as deep as KIO or other backend services.
It is as if "on the operating system level", but technically not (because operating systems usually care about memory allocation, processes, threading, and other low-level business involving indivudal bits and not high-level filesystems or data)
I'm afraid you'll probably have to wait until some enterprising 3rd party to grab the source and build some of the technology into a different product.
Don't be afraid anymore - this was actually the plan of the semantic desktop all the time. For instance, a product of the project is http://aperture.sf.net/ which is built-in into http://eclipse.org/SMILA at the moment.
Also, Ansgar Bernardi (the project lead who was interviewed in the TR article) says:
A spinoff company is also in the works...
well, I really hope this spinnoff company works out! ;-)
The Nepomuk Web site wants to make me chew my own arm off.
ha, good one.
Why why can't researchers spend 15 minutes thinking about how to convey the importance and excitement of what they are trying to do in terms of practical examples.
There are some, but they are not very elegant:
http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/wiki/UsingNepomuk
http://dev.nepomuk.semanticdesktop.org/wiki/UsingDropBox
Or check out the KDE stuff:
http://nepomuk.kde.org/discover/user
also in cute little moving pictures:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8oavLQeAjM
From what I know about all this, I would say that you get an open, w3c standardized destkop search engine. A slow fruit, but it is open and can grow, compare that to patented-getNervousBeforePublishingWinFS-microsoft.
probably the query thing is possible, but you have to learn the standardized SPARQL language first (oh joy) but wait and see:
Can I get anything to show all photos with my wife in them that I've rated four or above?
someone who has programming skills and also wants to see the pictures of his wife and rating>4 will hopefully help us all by implementing the search UI :-)
/slashdot-humour=ON
... and of course there is a general interest in pictures of your wife rated 4+
/slashdot-humour=OFF
Update:
eNom also allows you to get the Auth code, and I started to move my domains. All looks fine by using eNom, but I am still curious if something goes wrong.
I had three domains at registerfly and clicked the links provided in eNoms e-mails to registerfly accounts. They read like this: ".... registerfly is going down in flames ... click this link to move your domain to eNom .... have a nice day ... "
Note that I got the e-mail only once, and the links in the e-mails contained some authorisation code that was bound to the domain names. I don't know if it is now better at eNom or if I can push the domains from eNom to somewhere else, but at least it seems I am out of registerfly ... or, am I?
who knows. More thoughts in my blog. http://leobard.twoday.net/stories/3348089/