Tagsistant is a semantic file system for Linux Kernels based on libfuse.

Organizing lot of informations (like pictures, movies, songs, documents, programs, everything you can store on a disk) is sometimes simply impossible using normal directory hierarchical name space. If something is here, should also be there, and you can't ask the file system, please, tell me what is here AND there at the same time.

That's basically what Tagsistant does. Mount the file system (i.e. into store directory). Create as many tag-directories as you need and copy files into them (each file will be stored just one time, based on its name). Then ask Tagsistant to tell where your files are by tags, like:

$ ls store/rock/AND/acoustic/OR/grunge/

and you'll see just files related to acoustic rock or grunge. If results are accurate is all up to you and how you tag your files.

Tagsistant also provides a reasoning engine, which allows the user to establish relations between tags, like in "music includes rock" and "music includes grunge". After that, you'll find your rock and grunge files also inside the "music" directory without having to re-tag all your files as "music".

A plugin architecture is also under development to enable Tagsistant doing some automatic processing of files, using proper libraries like libogg or libxml an more.

Registration Date: Monday 01/15/2007 at 17:06 CET
License: GNU General Public License V2 or later
Development Status: 5 - Production/Stable