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author | Martyn Russell <martyn@lanedo.com> | 2010-04-08 13:58:30 +0100 |
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committer | Martyn Russell <martyn@lanedo.com> | 2010-04-08 13:58:30 +0100 |
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Updated README
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@@ -1,33 +1,28 @@ 1 Introduction - Tracker is a powerful desktop-neutral first class object - database, tag/metadata database, search tool and indexer. - - Tracker is also extremely fast and very memory-efficient - when compared with some other competing frameworks and has by - far the fastest and most memory-efficient Nautilus search and - Deskbar backends currently available. - - It consists of a common object database that allows entities to - have an almost infinte number of properties, metadata (both - embedded/harvested as well as user definable), a comprehensive - database of keywords/tags and links to other entities. - - It provides additional features for file-based objects - including context linking and audit trails for a file object. - - It has the ability to index, store, harvest metadata, retrieve - and search all types of files and other first class objects. - - Supported first class objects include: - - * Files, Documents, Music, Images, Videos, Applications, Emails, - Conversations, Playlists - - Planned support: - - * Appointments, Contacts, Projects, Tasks, Bookmarks, Notes, - Firefox Web History + Tracker is a search engine and that allows the user to find their + data as fast as possible. Users can search for their files and + search for content in their files too. + + Tracker is a semantic data storage for desktop and mobile devices. + Tracker uses W3C standards for RDF ontologies using Nepomuk with + SPARQL to query and update the data. + + Tracker is a central repository of user information, that provides + two big benefits for the desktop; shared data between applications + and information which is relational to other information (for + example: mixing contacts with files, locations, activities and + etc.). + + This central repository works with a well defined data model that + applications can rely on to store and recover their information. + That data model is defined using a semantic web artifact called + ontology. An ontology defines the relationships between the + information stored in the repository. + + An EU-funded project called Nepomuk was started to define some of + the core ontologies to be modelled on the Desktop. Tracker uses this + to define the data's relationships in a database. All discussion related to tracker happens on the Tracker mailing list |