On Mon, 9 Jul 2007, Eric Wilhelm wrote:
# from Ken Williams
# on Monday 09 July 2007 07:57 pm:
I wonder if there needs to be (at
some point down the road) some distributed merging of tags from the
various tagging-enabled cpan metadata sites like search.cpan,
cpanforum, perldoc, etc.
I was looking at kobesearch the other day and thinking such sites would
probably like to have some sort of common (possibly restful) API for
sharing data amongst themselves.
That sounds like a good idea - Gabor already has quite a
few tags on CPAN::Forum:
http://www.cpanforum.com/tags/
One might also think about integrating these with
existing (searchable) CPAN categories:
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/chapter
In particular, the subcategories of these frequently
could be used as tags in many cases; see, for example,
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/chapter/String_Lang_Text_Proc/XML
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/chapter/World_Wide_Web_HTML_HTTP_CGI/WWW
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/chapter/Archiving_and_Compression/Compress
http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/chapter/Security_and_Encryption/Crypt
The module/distribution mapping to categories/subcategories
can readily be extracted from our database, so is easily
available.
--
best regards,
Randy Kobes
