Linked by Marcus Carlson on Wed 21st Jul 2004 18:17 UTC
In these days there has been much fuzzing about the new browsing with files organizing themselves with the help of meta data. Maybe you ask yourself "What have this to do with the spatial browsing in gnome and how can it improve the browsing?". That's what I did. As I see it, the gnome people have introduced the spatial browsing so we are used to it when this new browsing is coming to town. This is very intelligent move of the gnome people and will help us adopt faster to this. This is when the spatial browsing is really making sense. I hope you see this when you've read this article.
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"The computer is never going to be able to categorize data for you. It's a dumb adding machine; no amount of logical suger coating is going to change that."
There is another usage of metadata in BeOS besides music collections, e-mail handling, bookmark handling and other metadata-ready-by-nature sorts of data.
Namely, filetype-ing.
Metadata contains mime-type, preferred individual app/handler signature (if no individial handler - system wide for given MIME will be used) etc etc.
Also this allows unlimited flexibility in access permission controls. It seems that SkyOS is starting to use that in its fresh multiuser-implementation