As Xesam implementation is stabilizing, Strigi is about to make a next step towards semantic desktop.

Nepomuk-KDE developer Sebastian Trueg said he will release shortly his RDF code as a storage and indexer backend for Strigi. This means Strigi has wider choice of backends, namely RedLand(SQLite-based) and Sesame2(Native RDF storage).

Benefits include SPARQL query support, and in case of Sesame2, a much better performance especially for complex queries.

SPARQL support comes handy considering very limited capabilities of Xesam query language.

Sesame2 is receiving a lot of developer and industry attention and tapping into this resource means we stay on the leading edge of RDF developments in FOSS.

Also, this means we have just one step left to provide a semantic desktop on KDE.

We've got analyzers, backend, dbus bindings, native c++ nepomuk ontology bindings. Just a little integration work will bring us the technology we've been looking for.

At every step we tried to eliminate costly lock-ins and tap into the most dynamic and promising developments by using flexible APIs and plug-in architecture.

Looks like it worked :)