[Wasabi] Kicking of the Metadata spec - brainstorm

[Fabrice Colin]

On 2/21/07, Jos van den Oever <jvdoever at gmail.com> wrote:
> 2007/2/20, Joe Shaw <joeshaw at novell.com>:
> > Heh.  Fair enough.  Should we keep it simply to the search-side of
> > things, then?
>
> The intention is to define a way to define metadata fields. This is
> required for searching and useful for metadata read/write too. So lets
> come up with the properties we allow metadata fields to have. I think
> what we have so far is what is required for searching too. So this
> will not be about an API for reading and writing.
>
Speaking of searching metadata, would it be useful to also define
which metadata fields are to be treated as boolean filters and which allow
probabilistic search ?

Fabrice