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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"Best would be to integrate this data in the filesystem, like WinFS (Windows new filesystem working closely with MS SQL), but as far as I know Linux lacks this kind of filesystem for the moment (correct me if I'm wrong)."
Reiser4 ( http://namesys.com/ ) handles metadata. Specifically, every file can also be treated as a folder, with files inside this "folder" containing metadata. that is, you can open a file /home/user/blah normally, but then /home/user/blah/author will contain the author, /home/user/blah/project will say what project it's associated with, etc.
Of course, none of this can be extensively used unless Reiser4 is adopted universally, which is unlikely to ever happen.