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"Tags are a short-hand for documentation.  People really want documentation."
=====  Issues Discussed =====

  *  language for the tags and search capacity on those tags
    *  dealing with slang, alternate meanings
    *  standardization of language
  *  enticing/rewarding people to tag ("Bootstrapping"?)
    *  Solution? Seed tags with automated material, make it easy to see
      *  change logs
      *  document contexts
    *  Solution? Wizard as a tree-selection ("is this a horse?" "how is it NOT a horse?")
    *  Solution? Wizard asking direct, thought-provoking questions
      *             what's cool?
      *             why do people want to use it?
    *  Solution? reward by searched tag success (best searched tags are worth more to the author of that tag)
  *  tagging old source
    *  Write sentences and extract terms from those instead tags directly.
    *  attach tags tightly to some specific source (source, blog, doc)
  *  automation of tag extraction
    *  automatable
    *  scalable
    *  many languages
    *  fingerprint used APIs
  *  "gaming" the tagging system, evil taggers, etc
    *  Solutions? "good" tag ratings vs "bad" tag ratings (reputation?)
  *  DOAP adoption is slow (Debian rule? like manpages?)
  *  Is there a license for APIs?  (Use, but not take advantage of.)
  *  Gather comments about functional relationships between two areas of code.
  *  Getting to block and line addressability for commenting.
  *  What makes sense for filtering or guiding relevance?
    *  Solution? recency? activity?
  *  Copyright on the tags themselves, or the data exchange?
  *  Possible new Aspect tags
    *  environment
    *  standards
  *  Automatic tag similarity discovery, tag context clustering
  *  Best-Practice for manual tagging
    *  What is it?
  *  Wizard for just describing a project's capabilities.
  *  Find short piece of code, see what could say about it
    *  Problem: usually comments describe "doing", not the "idea" of the code
  *  Documenting software patterns/ideas
    *  Ward's code from his presentation
  *  Time-stamping is a well-solved process.  Could use more date-associations being made.  (ha ha: [[http://nethash.org/|http://nethash.org/]])

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=====  Areas to Examine =====

  *  [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semantic_Web|Semantic Web]]
  *  [[http://usefulinc.com/doap|DOAP]]
  *  [[http://swik.net/|http://swik.net/]]  and[[http://zeitgeist.swik.net/|http://zeitgeist.swik.net/]]

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