[redland-dev] developerWorks article

[Miguel Branco]

Hi,


Edd Dumbill wrote:
> My latest article at developerWorks may interest folks here, where I
> explain how Redland's contexts can help track provenance of data
> spidered from the web.
> 
> http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-rdfprov.html
> 
> -- Edd
> 

"
Though RSS feeds of weblogs and other Internet sites are interesting 
from a browse-around, ego-surfing perspective, I believe the real value 
of a project like this is likely to be within the enterprise. 
Organizations are excellent at generating vast flows of time-sequenced data.
"

Precisely what I was looking for!

I'm currently working on a project to handle distributed data (just 
plain files) with lots of metadata associated with them. The concept you 
describe in the article is definitely very interesting. Actually, we 
we're planning a prototype implementation of such a system using also 
Aggregators and some sort of "context" mechanism (in our case things are 
technically a bit differently because we're building the system in a P2P 
approach for robustness... still ,logically it's similar). The purpose 
is to create a distributed catalog in a "highly robust way" - we're just 
beginning to think of an alternative to current "grid" distributed data 
management catalogs.

So, just wondering, do you think it's viable to build a distributed 
"file system" using the concepts you describe? Actually, it's not (just) 
a file system because each file or set of files has huge amounts of 
metadata associated to it.

Thanks in advance,
Miguel

PS: Sorry for going off-topic in this mailing list - but we're also 
thinking of using redland :)

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