Hi,
I have started to export the data collected on CPAN::Forum for anyone to use.
The various formats and the links are available here:
http://www.cpanforum.com/faq/#data
Your input and cooperation is welcome!
Gabor
On 7/12/07, Randy Kobes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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
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Gabor Szabo
http://www.szabgab.com/
Perl Training in Israel http://www.pti.co.il/
