[Digikam-devel] What do we want to store in the database?

[Marcel Wiesweg]

> > Hi,
> >
> > Another thing which may be important to store in the database is
> > information concerning backups.
> > For each picture it would be interesting to now if it has been backed
> > up, when and the name of the backup...
> > But maybe this information should be OS general and not specific to
> > Digikam.

Nepomuk often comes as a metadata storage, but in the end this is a far too 
narrow view, because "semantic desktop" is all about relations.
I still need to put some thought in this.

>
> Agree. A backup flags need to be added for the future. Backup/restore tool
> is one other part to do in the future.
>
>
> Another thing which may be important to store in the database is
>
> > information concerning movies:
> > length, frame number of the thumnail used, ....

I dont want to store this in our db, we are specialized in photos.
We can always use the KDE-wide storage for this.

>
> Marcel ?
>
>
> This raise the question of where to stop adding things. And is it
>
> > possible to share some infrastructure with amarok ?
>
> With nepomuk it will be possible. But it's one other KDE4 part which still
> under developement and not yet tested/finalized/stabilized. This is for a
> more far future..

>
> Gilles