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“Tags are a short-hand for documentation. People really want documentation.”

• 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/)

• Semantic Web
• DOAP
• http://swik.net/ andhttp://zeitgeist.swik.net/

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