Hmmm... with the psyche-out that MS pulled with the promises of what WinFS might have delivered, I wonder if it's time some sort of poll was taken here on the forums asking how many of us users feel some sort of meta-data database enhancement to Opus is considered SUPER important...
There have been a handful of topics over the past few years with lots of interest such as this one... where the case has been presented for Opus to include such meta tagging capability...
At one point, the counter argument against putting in the tremendous effort to pull something like this off with quality was that it made no sense for GPSoft to start such an undertaking if MS was otherwise doing it themselves... It's same counter arg against Opus providing it's own indexed search facility with the likes of GDS, YDS, X1, etc etc already being available and in cases free...
That said, I will add this:
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It's high time we were given (by somebody, anybody) a GENERIC database driven tagging facility that is NOT tied to file format type. There is every bit as much reason and benefit in tagging files of ANY type as there is to tag 'media' files... In the thread I mentioned above the concept of 'faceted' search is quite a leap ahead from what we can do today (and it actually seemed like I was throwing up some devils advocate opposition to the necessity for it, vs what could 'sort' of be achieved today through the use of collections and stuff...
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As is mentioned in the topic I referred to (it's an interesting read...) what we're talkking about here is intrinsically different from 'just' searching, and would be something that I would expect would ENTIRELY replace the current File Collection system in Opus, but would be 'accessed' and made use of within Opus in a similar way to File Collections...
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With such a system, I THINK I might want to see custom tag FIELDS and then VALUES that could be assigned to those fields...
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Perhaps a job for SQLite???