Erlandsen: What We Talk About When We Talk About Zeitgeist

[Posted November 17, 2009 by jake]

On his blog, Mikkel Kamstrup Erlandsen gives a technical overview of GNOME Zeitgeist. Zeitgeist essentially stores events using a Nepomuk ontology (formal data description) and allows those events to be queried. "There is a tangible confusion around as to what Zeitgeist is and what it isn't; what it can do and what it can't do. This is partly our own fault because we could have communicated this whole thing better, for instance we have some very outdated wiki pages lying around that you should probably stay away from until we updated them. In this post I aim to give a semi technical run down of the core Zeitgeist functionality and how we expose it for you to work with."

Erlandsen: What We Talk About When We Talk About Zeitgeist

Posted Nov 17, 2009 14:20 UTC (Tue) by clugstj (subscriber, #4020) [Link] (2 responses)

(paraphrased) "People are confused when we talk about Zeitgeist?"

One solution would be to give it a name that has something to do with what it does!

Erlandsen: What We Talk About When We Talk About Zeitgeist

Posted Nov 17, 2009 23:52 UTC (Tue) by riddochc (guest, #43) [Link]

Another solution might be to take the article just written and use it to update the outdated wiki pages, instead of telling people to avoid the wiki because it's wrong.

Wikis are meant to be easy to edit, yes?

Erlandsen: What We Talk About When We Talk About Zeitgeist

Posted Nov 18, 2009 16:20 UTC (Wed) by wstephenson (guest, #14795) [Link]

Well, in KDE we called it Nepomuk. Happy now?

And that's a joke - in the UI it's all part of Desktop Search.