Ken Williams wrote: > I was about to chime in and say that when an author provides their own > tags for their work, I think of them as "keywords". The term "tags" has > a connotation to me of user-generated labeling. For instance, in > academic papers, the author (or perhaps even the conference/journal > editor) writes the keyword field.
If we assume for a moment that 'keywords' and 'tags' are interchangeable is it not the case that keywords/tags on academic papers are exclusivel author generated because there's no interface that allows anyone else to add tags/keywords? I can't tag your papers even if I wanted to. > I was quite glad to see a few days ago that cpanforum is adding tags. > The obvious problem is that it's just one site, and there may not be > enough mass in the perl community to support various tag sets at various > cpan-related sites. 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. Having it genuinely distributed (no authoritative source, peer to peer synching) is probably hard. Two possible solutions spring to mind: * design a simple RESTful tagging API and set up an authoritative tag server to run it * have an SVN repo containing USERMETA.yml files per tagged module and use SVN to move them around and merge multiple updates. -- Andy Armstrong, Hexten
