Strigi Analyzers

John Tapsell johnflux at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 13:15:43 GMT 2007


Tobias, possibly, but how would searching work?
If it was done via nepomuk instead, could it still be searched etc?

On 22/03/07, Tobias G. Pfeiffer <tgpfeiffer at web.de> wrote:
> Hi!
>
> On Thursday 22 March 2007, 10:09, John Tapsell wrote:
> > > By the way, is there a possibility to have strigi also use other source
> > > of information about a file than the file contents themselves? More
> > > specifically, I think of using the digikam database to associate image
> > > files with the information stored in digikam.
> >
> > Hmm this would indeed be quite useful.
> >
> > On a similar note, I'd quite like to use my mythtv database to
> > associate video files with the information in stored in mythtv.
>
> Reading http://nepomuk-kde.semanticdesktop.org/xwiki/bin/view/Main/, your
> mythtv and my digikam seem to provide meta-data of type 2:
> "Metadata created manually by the user. In the most simple case this can be
> a
> comment to a file or an email."
> as opposed to meta-data of type 1:
> "Metadata that can be found in files stored on the local harddisk like tag
> information in audio files, timestamps, or simple indexed text. This
> metadata
> can be extracted and indexed at any time"
> Strigi's strength, due to its speed and stream-using approach is probably
> only
> the extraction of type-1-meta-data. The linkage of external information to a
> file is probably rather nepomuk's task than strigi's one.
>
> Bye
> Tobias
>
> --
> Sent from a 100% Microsoft free computer.
>




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