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Subject: Re: Storage implementation in KDE
From: Marco Krohn <marco.krohn () gmx ! de>
Date: 2003-09-13 10:07:56
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Hi,
> Why bother blurring the line at all? Just keep the traditional
> hierarchical organization.
The traditional hierachical organization is illogical in the sense that it is
not always possible to form proper subsets of categories. For instance does a
picture of Albert Einstein belong to the folder physics/pics or pics/physics?
You do not have these kind of problems in a storage implementation.
> UI wise, the user is going to pick one item
> out of that menu, so it doesn't matter much if its a folder or a
> category. My main concern is the UI. I really want to see a general
> purpose UI for this kind of stuff before I irrevocably commit all of my
> filesystems over to a database.
About two years ago I spent some thought on this, and I think it is not
impossible to implement a storage which is user friendly. Since we have
almost all the information that is contained in a traditional file system
(+some extra information) it would even be possible to rebuild a traditional
directory (dynamical hierarchy).
For example: if there are 50 images "pics physics einstein", 30 images "pics
physics teller" and 30 papers "physics high-energy" than by counting how
often the categories are used we find:
physics = 50 + 30 +30 = 110
pics = 50+30 = 80
einstein = 50
...
From that it should be possible to show at the top-level a number of
directories (number depending on personal preferences), e.g.
physics/
pics/
(einstein/)
physics splits up to:
physics/pics
physics/high-energy
(physics/einstein)
and so on...
Using additional free available information such as hypernyms ("is a kind of")
would give additional meta information at no costs. For example have a look
at the (free) wordnet:
http://www.cogsci.princeton.edu/cgi-bin/webwn1.7.1?
stage=2&word=tulip&posnumber=1&searchtypenumber=-2&senses=&showglosses=1
> A mockup with test data would be excellent to see.
I very much agree.
best regards,
Marco
--
Marco Krohn
Theoretical Physics
University of Hannover
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