Ontology and tags

[Frederic Lehobey <Frederic@Lehobey.net>]

Hi,

Bryan Bishop <kanzure@gmail.com> (2008-05-08 20:18:52) :
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 6:43 PM, David Bremner <bremner@unb.ca> wrote:

> > and some kind of brief description of the goals.  I would also suggest
> > that any kind of categorization take place in a wiki/webpage, so it is
> > fluid. Also git naturally produces a one repo per package viewpoint
> > (which is a bit awkward for people like pkg-perl, but not so
> > conclusive for us, I think).
> 
> Hey there; if I wanted to get started with the a list of related
> projects and the programs to be categorized in some ontology on the
> wiki, where would I start? What sources would I trudge through to find
> this information? I'd be interested in doing a broad review of all
> debian-science software packages in the repo, but know that apt-cache
> search science will not bring up everything.

    http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/
    http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/cloud/

    http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/Classification

  I did this _manually_ several times something like three years ago
(before the debtags were that widespread) and fed some of the results
to the old DebianScience wiki pages. As Andreas said in an other
message I do not think the wiki it a way to go: too much of a
hassle. Better use and improve debtags (existing infrastructure). Rely
on automatically generated content (like the Sentinel pages created by
Andreas from the tasks files that will be able to take advantage of
the DDTP translations for example).

  You can tag packages online.

Best regards,
Frédéric Lehobey