[XESAM] Meeting reminder, this Monday 20:00 UTC

[Fabrice Colin]

On 5/14/07, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen <mikkel.kamstrup at gmail.com> wrote:
> The meeting will start at 20:00 UTC on #xesam on FreeNode, and it is my hope
> that we can get through the agenda in <= two hours
>
Sorry, I won't make it, this will be in the middle of the night for me.

>     - How to store the draft? We have no svn yet. In the wiki with one core
> maintainer which all updates go through has been proposed. Yours truly
> suggests that Evgeny (aka Phreedom) of Strigi fame be this person.
>
Yeah, good idea. Evgeny seems to be the right man for the job :-)

>  3) How do we represent the final ontology? Three alternatives have been put
> up: In a .desktop like format, some simple RDF syntax, or just a written
> spec
>
In any case, we need a written spec.

>  4) A type system?
>     - Do we need a type system/mapping? Ie. to group stuff like Email,
> Conversations, Music, Video, Contacts, Documents, Images, Websites, News.
> The current search spec relies somewhat on this.
>
Yes, the ontology won't be very useful without type identification. Is the
knowledge of MIME type, data source and URI enough to categorize
data automatically ?

> 5) libxesam, libxesam-glib, libxesam-qt
>     - How should we provide helper libs? The current idea is to have a
> platform independant libxesam and provide toolkit bindings in wrapper libs.
> Is it worth the effort to have a shared lib instead of doing platform
> dependeant libs directly?
>
What services would these provide ? Just wrappers for the dbus API ?

I am looking forward to reading the meeting's minutes :-)

Fabrice