Hi there! Back in september I wrote an email <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2022-09/msg00056.html> to this list more or less about this topic (you can read the whole conversation here <https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gnunet-developers/2022-09/threads.html#00056> ).
Personally I believe metadata is everything. In my opinion people must be free to catalogue things as they like (even by writing fake metadata), however they should face the trust of the community and accept that their metadata will not spread too much if they have a bad reputation. What function are you looking for, specifically? --madmurphy On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 10:36 PM Jimmy Bionic <jbionic2...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi there, > > I am keen to find out about one particular aspect of search > implementation in GnuNet. I belong to a small community of like minds who > would like to exchange in a safer possible way some parts of our > collections. Within our community we don't know each other personally and > often reside in different countries. While the nature of our collections is > somewhat peculiar because we collect meta-tagged images (primarily multiple > *.JPG and *.PNG files tagged by IPTC/MWG with the use of ExifTool), and the > content of images could be anything like pages from a new book that's just > come out, a figure from an electronic publication that can be only > purchased, or just photos from posh magazines. This means that the content > can be potentially subject to copyright claims, so trust and privacy > (anonymity) in the process of exchange is crucial. The thing about ExifTool > is that there are multiple tools which allow one to run search queries by > metadata, but all of them do it only locally. While the nature of metadata > is somewhat shaky because there is currently no way to ensure the validity > of the tags and their claimed match with the content. To put it simply, an > image may be picturing a pet, but the tags are saying that this is a lion > or planet Jupiter. That's why we rely so much on trust and welcome only > sensible people to avoid fakes. The reason we've paid some attention to > existing P2P solutions is because our collections are vast and we would > love to search in each other's collections and so to exchange. Not many P2P > actually have in-built search engines (eg. eDonkey has, BitTorrent > doesn't), while search by metadata is desirable but even a more distant > perspective. GnuNet seems to have the F2F topology which separates it from > many other existing solutions. In order for it to fit in with our > requirements, I suppose, some additional development may be required. So I > wonder how flexible you are with regards to the implementation of the > search by metadata in GnuNet? > > I would appreciate any comments from your side. > > With best regards. > > > > >
