What is Tracker?



What does that mean?

Tracker is a a data store, an indexer and a search engine that allows the user to find and link data easily.

Tracker uses a well defined data model that applications can rely on to store and recover their information. That data model is defined using a semantic web artifact called ontology. An ontology defines the relationships between the information stored in the repository.

An EU-funded project called Nepomuk was started to define some of the core ontologies to be modelled on the Desktop. Tracker uses this to define the data's relationships in a database.