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]]> by: amr.ramadan http://www.glscube.org/blog/?p=4#comment-5 Mon, 16 Oct 2006 15:59:57 +0000 http://www.glscube.org/blog/?p=4#comment-5 TerminalDigit: We were recently quite busy, and thus the delay in the Live CD. We will put trying to put that together soon though, or at least a detailed installation instructions. Pgan: The search query you suggested needs a Natural Language processing engine. This is a field of its own and would anyway be best built on top of a relational (or SQL) search engine. But certainly, this would be the way things should go. TerminalDigit:

We were recently quite busy, and thus the delay in the Live CD. We will put trying to put that together soon though, or at least a detailed installation instructions.

Pgan:

The search query you suggested needs a Natural Language processing engine. This is a field of its own and would anyway be best built on top of a relational (or SQL) search engine. But certainly, this would be the way things should go.

]]> by: Pgan http://www.glscube.org/blog/?p=4#comment-4 Thu, 12 Oct 2006 06:46:41 +0000 http://www.glscube.org/blog/?p=4#comment-4 First, congratulations. The videos look very impressive. I am having some issues compiling, so I cannot test GLSCube yet. GLSCube.org says that you can define relationships between documents (or objects). May this allow one day to search for something like "the phone numbers of all people who live in Alexandria and with whom I have corresponded in the last year"? This was touted as the mainstay of WinFS. First, congratulations. The videos look very impressive. I am having some issues compiling, so I cannot test GLSCube yet.

www.GLSCube.org says that you can define relationships between documents (or objects). May this allow one day to search for something like “the phone numbers of all people who live in Alexandria and with whom I have corresponded in the last year”? This was touted as the mainstay of WinFS.

]]> by: The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon » GLScube http://www.glscube.org/blog/?p=4#comment-3 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 17:47:18 +0000 http://www.glscube.org/blog/?p=4#comment-3 [...] Sean pointed me to the GLScube project a couple months ago. They are four Egyptians putting together a semantic file system for Linux. They have recently made the decision to rewrite their system following a 0.1 version release, and have also started a development blog, which should be interesting to follow. Their latest post, A Rant About Filesystems of Today, does a great job explaining the potential benefit of metadata for the average computer user. As they say, it’s all about usability. What about Metadata? It is like they do not exist. Almost all of the most common file formats nowadays have Metadata that are left for the users to set. You know, this Author field in a PDF that is usually empty, and if not, probably has some cryptic irrelevant text. This is understandable of course, and users should not be blamed, because quite frankly my dear, Metadata means nothing. If they cannot organize based on it, or search with it, why would they spend the time to set it? And even more, why would they exercise the trouble in going through menus to edit them. Maybe, only a maybe, they would have set them if they were asked to in the Save dialogue of their application. But other than that, why spend the effort!? del.icio.us this! [...] […] Sean pointed me to the GLScube project a couple months ago. They are four Egyptians putting together a semantic file system for Linux. They have recently made the decision to rewrite their system following a 0.1 version release, and have also started a development blog, which should be interesting to follow. Their latest post, A Rant About Filesystems of Today, does a great job explaining the potential benefit of metadata for the average computer user. As they say, it’s all about usability. What about Metadata? It is like they do not exist. Almost all of the most common file formats nowadays have Metadata that are left for the users to set. You know, this Author field in a PDF that is usually empty, and if not, probably has some cryptic irrelevant text. This is understandable of course, and users should not be blamed, because quite frankly my dear, Metadata means nothing. If they cannot organize based on it, or search with it, why would they spend the time to set it? And even more, why would they exercise the trouble in going through menus to edit them. Maybe, only a maybe, they would have set them if they were asked to in the Save dialogue of their application. But other than that, why spend the effort!? del.icio.us this! […]

]]> by: TerminalDigit http://www.glscube.org/blog/?p=4#comment-2 Mon, 09 Oct 2006 06:52:05 +0000 http://www.glscube.org/blog/?p=4#comment-2 Any idea when the LiveCD will be ready? Been wanting to try this out since it hit Digg in the beginnging of July. Any idea when the LiveCD will be ready? Been wanting to try this out since it hit Digg in the beginnging of July.

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