Wed 28 Jan 2004
The topics doesn't come up much, but it has so I must make a few comments. Now strictly, speaking my idea of a sandwich is turkey, lettuce, onions, on a real baguette. Most of my variations involve cheese, peppers, and another meat. Occasionally I make an exception for an Italian style sandwich on focaccia or ciabatta, a gyro, a muffuletta, and once a while a cheeseburgers.
Wed 28 Jan 2004
I've been playing with Redland and its librdf recently. I'm looking for a fast replacement for Medusa's database. I'm not sure what to think. It has some new parser and query features since I played with it last year. From a storage aspect, it can do what Medusa does now, but I think I'll need more query capabilities. If I must write a query engine, there no reason it must be Medusa's so long as it works well.
I strongly feel that a GNOME metadata solution should be based on metadata standards: RDF, OWL, FOAF and use common grammars. I'm shopping for a new Medusa backend because I don't think Medusa should be in the DB business, and it needs an extensible schema. It would be nice to have a ready to go RDF DB to attach the search and indexer pieces to. I think Storage is the long term solution, but if I can get a solid db that follows stands now, I can solve scale and feature later.
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