Re: Tags for CPAN modules.

On Jul 9, 2007, at 3:49 PM, Michael G Schwern wrote:

> Salve J Nilsen wrote:
>> Michael G Schwern wrote:
>>>
>>> [..] add a "tags" keyword to META.yml.  Have
>>> search.cpan.org so something interesting with that extra  
>>> information.
>>
>> What's the main difference between a "tags" keyword and the
>> already-existing "keywords" field found in META.yml since rev 1.1?
>>
>>   http://module-build.sourceforge.net/META-spec-current.html#keywords
>
> See, that's why I CC things around before I go ahead and do  
> something stupid.
>
> Ok, we'll use that.

Funny.  I, who presumably wrote that document, don't even remember it  
being there.

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.

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.

  -Ken