Xesam ontology is shaping up nicely. It had gotten much more flexible and powerful than I thought I could ever entice desktop indexers to implement.

Unfortunately Xesam query interface in Strigi will not be finished before aKademy as I hoped, but it's not far from completion(days away). I feel it's a fair price to pay for a boost in functionality :)

Query interface implementation will be used to fine-tune ontology.

Jos will be doing a presentation on Xesam at aKademy.I don't know to what extent Jos will be able to cover subtle, but important improvements in Xesam over previous desktop search approaches.

Anyway, soon you will be able to actually test-drive it yourself. This is an opportunity to take a glimpse at what nepomuk will be capable of.

Also, there are some exciting developments in the user interface area.

Under consideration are:
* Data source for plasmoids. You can be sure there will be plenty :)
* Jos' FileLight idea
* WarpTree data structure browser/navigator
* Auto-clustering of results to better represent and help refine searches that return more than 15-20 results.

Auto-clustering can go as far as starting from all of your data and having indexer ask you a small number of questions, specifically tailored to your data set to identify required file in the smalest possible number of steps.