[ Thanks to liquidat
for this link. ]
“After the last post about Nepomuk-KDE many people discussed the
pros and cons of a central storage of meta data. Additionally,
alternative solutions like using file system capabilities
(xarguments, etc.) where often mentioned and discussed.“However, most of this discussions failed to understand what
meta data in the context of the semantic desktop are about: they
are not only about files. Instead, the main goal of the Semantic
Desktop idea is to gather all the data which cannot be connected to
a single physical equivalent of a file…”
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