Haystack
Monday, October 13th, 2003Haystack is an ambitious project at Laboratory of Computer Science, MIT, that aims to develop a universal information client. The idea seems to be building a personal information surrogate that aggregates all the information concerned by a user so that she doesn’t have to go across various application barriers to gather those information “pieces”.
While the screenshots look elegant, I’m more interested in the underlying information consolidation framework, which seems to be based on extensive usage of RDF. It’s probably all about standardized metadata description (RDF?), and a strong force (i.e., some big player from the Industry) to push it.
