[Nepomuk] Adding Nepomuk integration into Basket Note Pads

[Evgeny Egorochkin]

On Thursday 02 September 2010 11:51:49 Sebastian Trüg wrote:
> Let's bring this discussion to the mailing list. A quick recap:
> 
> Amir wants Nepomuk support in Basket to be able to search notes.
> He started by adding tags to resources that he created for the notes
> since that is what the tutorial does.
> But his problem was with opening the tagged notes which would be done by
> the browser (nepomuk:/ KIO slave).
> Thus, I proposed to start off by saving the note in a file and tagging
> and annotating that file.
> A next step would mean to introduce a system similar to what we have for
> mimetypes: applications should be able to register for specific RDF
> types they can handle.

Nice idea.

> I also brought Laura into the discussion since she faces similar
> problems with SemNotes. Also it would make sense to either merge the
> tools or make their data compatible through Nepomuk.
> 
> Then Akonadi was mentioned and the always problematic question arose:
> should we store the data in Nepomuk or Akonadi. Well, I am all for
> Nepomuk since we would duplicate everything there anyway to be able to
> search for it.

Nitpick: not at all because fulltext index while comparable in size with the 
text, doesn't actually store the text itself. So you need both a copy of the 
text and the index to be able to retrieve it and search.

> And this is where we are now:
> 
> On 09/01/2010 08:20 PM, Amir Pakdel wrote:
> > In fact I do not know much about Akonadi. Nevertheless, since I am
> > synchronizing my note files in multiple computers right now, using
> > Akonadi instead of plain files might affect users who are synchronizing
> > their notes in a way like me. Therefore, we should think of a
> > synchronization mechanism too. However, we can do the first part
> > (storing metadata in Nepomuk) and in mean time discuss the rest.
> > 
> > Sebastian, is there any way to synchronize instanses of Nepomuk (or
> > Akonadi)?
> 
> Akonadi does not do syncing AFAIK.

This is a strong argument in favor of storing it in nepomuk.

> Nepomuk sync support is developed by
> Vishesh at the moment. Vishesh, how far away are we from syncing for
> example a set of notes to another computer?
> 
> >     > > But for now: Laura, how are you storing notes again?
> >     
> >     atm everything about the notes including the content of the notes
> >     themselves is stored in Nepomuk, as triples. The notes are of type
> >     pimo:Note. For each note i store the content, as string value of the
> >     property nao:htmlContent, title, tags, creation time, last
> >     modification time, and related resources.
> > 
> > Does KRunner know how to open your notes? Can you search and open them
> > from within the KDE Run Command or you are searching only inside the
> > SemNotes?
> 
> the KRunner only knows KIO - thus, it can open files and opens the rest
> through KIO. In the case of Nepomuk resources this means the browser
> (preferably Konqueror) with the nepomuk:/ KIO slave. The latter provides
> an HTML page with the properties of the resources. Lately we also
> redirect most of the resources to queries listing the related
> resources/files.

-- 
Evgeny