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author | Sam Thursfield <sam@afuera.me.uk> | 2019-05-20 22:32:52 +0200 |
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committer | Sam Thursfield <sam@afuera.me.uk> | 2019-05-25 20:57:08 +0200 |
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README: Remove description, features and use-cases section
This information is duplicated in the project wiki, which we already
link to.
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@@ -1,28 +1,8 @@ # Tracker -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 modeled on the Desktop. Tracker uses this -to define the data's relationships in a database. +Tracker is an efficient search engine and +[triplestore](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triplestore) for desktop, embedded +and mobile. More information on Tracker can be found at: @@ -40,75 +20,6 @@ IRC channel #tracker on: * [irc.gimp.net](irc://irc.gimp.net) -## Use Cases - -Tracker is the most powerful open source metadata database and -indexer framework currently available and because it is built -around a combination indexer and SQL database and not a -dedicated indexer, it has much more powerful use cases: - - * Provide search and indexing facilities similar to those on - other systems (Windows Vista and Mac OS X). - - * Common database storage for all first class objects (e.g. a - common music/photo/contacts/email/bookmarks/history database) - complete with additional metadata and tags/keywords. - - * Comprehensive one stop solution for all applications needing - an object database, powerful search (via RDF Query), first class - methods, related metadata and user-definable metadata/tags. - - * Can provide a full semantic desktop with metadata everywhere. - - * Can provide powerful criteria-based searching suitable for - creating smart file dialogs and vfolder systems. - - * Can provide a more intelligent desktop using statistical - metadata. - -## Features - - * Desktop-neutral design (it's a freedesktop product built - around other freedesktop technologies like D-Bus and XDGMime - but contains no GNOME-specific dependencies besides GLib). - - * Very memory efficient. Unlike some other indexers, Tracker is - designed and built to run well on mobile and desktop systems with - lower memory (256MB or less). - - * Non-bloated and written in C for maximum efficiency. - - * Small size and minimal dependencies makes it easy to bundle - into various distros, including live CDs. - - * Provides option to disable indexing when running on battery. - - * Provides option to index removable devices. - - * Implements the freedesktop specification for metadata - (https://freedesktop.org/wiki/Standards/shared-filemetadata-spec/). - - * Extracts embedded File, Image, Document and Audio type - metadata from files. - - * Supports the WC3's RDF Query syntax for querying metadata. - - * Provides support for both free text search (like Beagle/Google) - as well as structured searches using RDF Query. - - * Responds in real time to file system changes to keep its - metadata database up to date and in sync. - - * Fully extensible with custom metadata - you can store, - retrieve, register and search via RDF Query all your own custom - metadata. - - * Can extract a file's contents as plain text and index them. - - * Can provide thumbnailing on the fly. - - * It auto-pauses indexing when running low on diskspace. - ## Compilation To setup the project for compilation after checking it out from |