- From: Damian Steer <pldms@mac.com>
- Date: Tue, 28 Oct 2003 12:19:26 +0000
- To: Martin May <maym@foobar.lu>
- Cc: www-rdf-interest@w3.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Martin May <maym@foobar.lu> writes: > I would like to attach RDF metadata to files. So far I have identified > the following options for doing so, all of which have drawbacks: > > 4. create an archive file which groups the file and its metadata > (e.g. jar) > One option you didn't mention, related to 4, is to put the rdf together with the data in the file, which some filesytems support. HFS and HFS+ on the Mac have two parts to a file - the data fork (what one normally thinks of as the content) and the resource fork (arbtrary collection of things like icons, etc). Similarly NTFS has streams, although only viruses seem to use them IME, and Reiser 4 has something like this, IIRC. No doubt there are other examples. These features were implemented to facilitate exactly the behaviour you want, associating metadata with inodes, but I appreciate that it might not be a practical solution for you. Just thought it was worth mentioning. Damian -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (Darwin) Comment: Processed by Mailcrypt 3.5.8 <http://mailcrypt.sourceforge.net/> iD8DBQE/nl7NAyLCB+mTtykRAm1DAKDDDUAVlsLa3EKVdRBlC/6B2RSedQCgsK6w MNLIP3KElrMSrA0Rfyd1wX8= =xaGK -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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