[Xesam] Metadata Storage Daemon

[Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen]

On 11/01/2008, Sebastian Trüg <strueg at mandriva.com> 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?

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.

Cheers,
Mikkel