Re: [libextractor] ubiqivo

[Christian Grothoff]

Hi!

I don't know why you'd want to store the information in a file if LE can get 
it to you quickly on-demand, but that's your design choice.  LE can be used to 
get meta data (not sure about "vernacular publication archives", but in 
principle any format can be supported by the right plugin), and you can 
combine it with dnotify/fam/etc. to get notifications on accesses to the file.  
You should check out doodled for an idea as to how this last part can be done 
(code at http://grothoff.org/christian/doodle/).

Happy hacking,

Christian

On Monday, August 02, 2010 05:01:39 pm David Ker wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm wondering if libextractor might be used for a project I'm
> designing.  Essentially the idea is that a folder of documents has a
> file in it that contains filenames and metadata. Ideally, I wanted the
> file to update itself every time you open it. The application is for
> vernacular publication archives that we are trying to make more
> ubiquitous (thus, ubiqivo).
> 
> Any ideas would be most appreciated.
> 
> David Ker