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Migration

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• data migration, if any
• redirects from old URLs to new ones, if any
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https://blueprints.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/desktop-karmic-content-library

Discussion about a common place to store metadata about their media. Blueprint links to several existing related projects.

Zeitgeist: logs downloaded files, watches Recently Used and file starts and keeps a record of each. So "importing files into your library" becomes "play those files" (which may be a problem for 25000 mp3s). Works for several kinds of applications now. Can be extended. Queries over dbus. Does not store all kinds of metadata, but stores at least a URI and mime type. Does not distinguish between "deleted" (file has been removed) and "offline" (file is not there because it was on a removeable disc that has been removed).

Would be good to define what we want a metadata library to do.

Lars: need a tool to manage photography workflow. F-Spot is not that tool; for a start, it requires you to store all your photos in one place, which is a problem if you have more photos on a removeable hard drive.

DoctorMO: requirements for content library are simple. Classing, and standard API for every kind of object. Our solution needs to consider migration strategy. We still have to access legacy databases. Has some kind of solution: not a datastore, its pipes, interfaces over dbus(???). Designed to cope with local, online, hardware data. Idea is to collect information in logical form to be delivered to the interface. Every object provides standard API. This allows creating world's best database. Name: Central Services.

Miyana(sp?) is another database. Operates a bit like zeitgeist.

Mojito project in Moblin. Purely for online content.

Features: should be performant even with thousands/millions of files distributed (can take the database away on a second machine without the files,

• and import new data into that "copy" database)

thumbnails of images stored in the database

Searching is important, based on all metadata and full content search too. Tracker is an existing solution, except it has problems, but those seem fixable eventually.

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