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authorMartyn Russell <martyn@lanedo.com>2010-04-08 13:58:30 +0100
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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
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