On Tuesday 15 January 2008 16:28:34 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > On 15/01/2008, Sebastian Trüg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Saturday 12 January 2008 00:05:38 Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen wrote: > > > On 11/01/2008, Sebastian Trüg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Just my 2 cents: > > > > Soprano has a IMOH very good DBus API [1] for RDF storage which > > > > fulfills all 3 of your requirements below. We already use it for > > > > Nepomuk and it works great. And since Xesam is already using URIs to > > > > identify stuff why not go the extra mile to RDF storage altogether? > > > > > > I thought Soprano depended on Qt? > > > > That has nothing to do with the D-Bus interface. I thought we were > > looking for an API? > > We are. I just thought where pushing Soprano as a reference > implementation or something like that. I am fine with that, but would > just like a desktop agnostic impl.
I get that. I did not want to push Soprano as a reference. Just wanted to throw the API in the mix. > > > Anyways, I don't think the RDF quadruples is a good thing to expose > > > directly to the programmers who just want a quick and dirty metadata > > > storage. It is simply just too technical. That does not mean that we > > > cannot use that stuff under the hood though. > > > > > > > Timestamps are handled via named graphs [2], also known as context > > > > (RDF quadruples). > > > > > > Are you suggesting putting the mtime in the name of each RDF triple? > > > If we are to support timestamps I don't think we should expose them as > > > RDF quadruples because I still think that it is too much abstraction > > > to present to the end user developer. > > > > No, named graphs mean that each triple becomes a quadruple and the forth > > node is used to group triples together into subgraphs. These subgraphs > > are then annotated with arbitrary information such as creation date. > > Ok, thanks for clearing that up. > > Cheers, > Mikkel _______________________________________________ Xesam mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/xesam
