Semantic file system

Semantic File Systems are file systems used for information persistence which structure the data according to their semantics and intent, rather than the location as with current file systems. It allows the data to be addressed by their content (associative access) and querying for the data.

See also

• WinFS
• Semantic Web
• Tagsistant
• Logic File System

External links

• A tag-based filesystem for ubuntu
• Towards Semantic File System Interfaces, Proceedings of the International Semantic Web Conference 2008
• Semantic File Systems
• Semantic FS @ MIT Programming Systems Research Group
• SemFS: A Semantic approach to File Systems
• TransparenTag File System compatible with point'n'click and command line interfaces
• ReiserFS future vision (broken link)
• The Sile Model --- A Semantic File System Infrastructure for the Desktop
• external list of related work on semantic file systems
• tagxfs: A tag based user space file system extension.