On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 15:19 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > Philip Van Hoof <spam-+ms4almnmlkg5xvv6lv...@public.gmane.org> writes: > > On Mon, 2010-05-17 at 13:26 -0400, Nikolaus Rath wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is it possible to have tracker automatically read additional metadata > >> from a second file? For example, if tracker indexes testfile.odt, I want > >> it to automatically read metadata about testfile.odt from > >> testfile.odt.xml (or some other suitable format). > > > > The format for this is called XMP. You can store a so-called sidekick > > XMP file next to the file. Tracker will pick those up when done > > correctly. > > Ah, that sounds fantastic! I like that approach much better. I guess > that creating XMP fill will also be even easier than polling tracker > until it has indexed a new file and then inserting the metadata into > tracker.
Tracker uses inotify, not polling, to know about file updates. > And it also solves my concerns about the metadata accidentally > vanishing. ? > There seems to be a lot of XMPs though. Are you talking about > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extensible_Metadata_Platform? Yes > Does the XMP file have to have a special file name, Read the specification, look for XMP sidekick files http://www.adobe.com/products/xmp/ > or is the name of the described file part of the XMP data itself? Read the specification > Googling for "xmp tracker" or "xmp metatracker" was just as > fruitless as searching for "xmp" on the tracker wiki, so I'm a bit > at a loss here... Cheers, Philip -- Philip Van Hoof freelance software developer Codeminded BVBA - http://codeminded.be _______________________________________________ tracker-list mailing list tracker-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/tracker-list
