Hi all. It is about time to break radio silence on this channel I think. This mail serves two purposes - to give a small status update on the current state of Xesam affairs and also to figure out how to push us past the unacceptably late Xesam 1.0. Status --------- Evgeny has been a busy little bee as you might have noticed if you follow Philip van Hoofs blog. He has been doing a lot of work in understanding the differences between the Xesam and Nepomuk ontologies as well as working on some of the problems we will see if we move to the Nepomuk ontology in Xesam 2.0. Links: * Comparative review of Xesam and Nepomuk ontologies <a href="http://xesam.org/main/Hackfest2008/NepomukReview" target="_blank">http://xesam.org/main/Hackfest2008/NepomukReview</a> (notably the attachment) * A proposal for a Nepomuk MultimediaMedia ontology <a href="http://xesam.org/main/Hackfest2008/nmm" target="_blank">http://xesam.org/main/Hackfest2008/nmm</a> * Some critique of the Nepomuk Message Ontology <a href="http://xesam.org/main/Hackfest2008/nmoproposal" target="_blank">http://xesam.org/main/Hackfest2008/nmoproposal</a> Philip van Hoof has been quite active in a lot of areas bordering up to Xesam land as well. They are not strictly in Xesam-realm yet, but definitely worth looking at in the future:  * Standardizing a DBus API for Email metadata harvesting: <a href="http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Metadata">http://live.gnome.org/Evolution/Metadata</a>  * Metadata caches on removal devices: <a href="http://live.gnome.org/MetadataOnRemovableDevices">http://live.gnome.org/MetadataOnRemovableDevices</a> Xesam 1.0 --------------- Xesam 1.0 has suffered unneeded delay which is a shame, but I've been busy elsewhere with real life[1]. The status of the draft is that it is more or less ready for just pushing the button and calling it 1.0. The single remaining issue is what do to with link-by-id. To be honest I am inclined I am more or less ready to just cut a line in the sand and go with the simplest consistent solution for link-by-id (what ever that is). We really need to get 1.0 out the door so we can focus on 2.0. I'll be away to the code4lib conference over the next week (but I plan to check my mail) and it is my hope that we can bundle up Xesam 1.0 when I get home. That should be in the very beginning of March. -- Cheers, Mikkel [1]: Cofounding Refind SMBA[2] a company specialized in vertical search using the Summa search engine[3] [2]: <a href="http://refind.dk" target="_blank">http://refind.dk</a> (sorry Danish only for now) [3]: <a href="http://wiki.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa" target="_blank">http://wiki.statsbiblioteket.dk/summa</a> [4] [4]: Ok enough for nested footnotes and self-promotion :-)