[Kget] Nepomuk, metadata for downloads

[Manolo Valdes]

El Tuesday 17 July 2007 5:13:27 am escribió:

Hi Sebastian

we (kget developers) were talking about this on the #kget on kde.freenode so
maybe we can meet there and talk about this :)

best regards
Manolito


> From a developers point of view (KGet) the implementation should be quite
> simple. All you need to do is create an instance of Nepomuk::Resource and
> set properties. The only problem is: which properties. IMHO we should try
> to reuse properties from XESAM or the Nepomuk ontologies (both are not
> final yet AFAIK). But we can see about that once we agree that it should be
> done.
>
> Cheers,
> Sebastian
>
> On Monday 16 July 2007 17:29:09 Anthony Bryan wrote:
> > On 7/16/07, Sebastian Trüg <strueg at mandriva.com> wrote:
> > > Hi Anthony,
> > >
> > > sorry for the late reply. I just now returned from my honeymoon.
> >
> > Congrats!
> >
> > > This sounds very cool, indeed. IMHO all we need is a mapping from the
> > > metalink fields to some ontology fields we can use in nepomuk. Then
> > > saving the data is no problem.
> > > Did you work on KGet? Or who should I contact about that?
> >
> > Manolo & Urs work on KGet, so I've added them into the conversation.
> >
> > Allright, I'm excited about this! I'll try to think of some other
> > things that might be useful. If you guys come up with something, we'll
> > add it to Metalink. Maybe something like info for when you're having
> > trouble with a file, could be a link to a support forum, or email
> > address, or phone number.
> >
> > > On Friday 06 July 2007 06:00:38 you wrote:
> > > > Hi Sebastian,
> > > >
> > > > Someone suggested I contact you because I work on Metalink, which is
> > > > an XML format used for downloads. metalinks contain multiple URLs for
> > > > a file, checksums, and other metadata (mostly used for ISO downloads,
> > > > since they are usually large and being able to repair any errors is
> > > > nice). It was suggested that the metalinks could be used to
> > > > automatically get metadata from a download into a user's local
> > > > filesystem.
> > > >
> > > > I just saw a screencast with Nepomuk & Dolphin, and it looked really
> > > > cool! KGet from KDE 4.0 supports metalink, so I'm thinking KGet could
> > > > pass the metadata on...Metalink has pretty simple stuff like
> > > > publisher, version, description, OS/arch, stuff like that. Here's a
> > > > capture of DownThemAll!, a Firefox download extension, using some of
> > > > the metadata:
> > > >
> > > > http://code.downthemall.net/maierman/metaselect4.png
> > > >
> > > > Anyways, I was just wondering what you thought, and if you had any
> > > > suggestions for more metadata that could be useful to include.



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