OSSTag - a software social tagging engine

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Overview

As part of the Open Source as Prior Art project, software is needed to serve as a prototype for a social tagging tool to help classify software.

Think of Freshmeat meets Flickr. Track software and software development through the use of social tagging.

Goal

The resulting software should be able to:

Allow for arbitrary word and phrase tags
Create new project areas to tag, with references to external sites
Have multiple sub-sections within a project to tag
Allow both "public" and admin tags
Maintain information about date/times tags were added/changed

Status

OSSTag is still under development. Beta versions are available.
A demo installation can be found at http://prevalent-digest.de/osstag/current/

Download

Downloads and CVS access is located at https://sourceforge.net/projects/osstag

Development

Discussions take place at the priorart-discuss -- OSS and USPTO prior art discussions mailinglist.
Our development wiki can be found at http://developer.osdl.org/dev/priorart/wiki/index.php/OSSTag

License

GNU General Public License

OSSTag - A Social Tagging Engine
Copyright © 2006 Open Source Development Labs, Inc.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
version 2 as published by the Free Software Foundation.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA.

Changelog

v0.3pre1 - 30-JUL-2006

OSSTag comes now with a complete Web-Interface to tag just about any project. It supports User-Login/Registration and you can freely provide any Meta-Information on projects you want to be tagged.
The whole release is separated into 4 modules:

osstag - the tagging engine with xml/http-request interface
xsltwf - a xml/http-request framework for user-management
projectpointer - a xml/http-request framework for project meta-informations
tagaproject - a website combining above three modules in one website, using xml and xslt.

Download: osstag-0.3pre1.tar.bz2

v0.2 - 16-JUN-2006

aspect oriented tagging
This release comes with 6 slightly different variants of how OSSTag could be used. As example we chose the FireFox extension Morse for all 6 variants.
project column added to phymap (-> enables tags to project and sub-parts of project via phypointer)
minor fixes + 6 variants for testing
project tag-cloud
Download: osstag-0.2.tar.bz2

v0.1 - 7-JUN-2006

Initial release
Yet a plain flat tagging structure
Perldoc documentation: osstag.pm, osstag_config.pm, osstag_dbmapper.pm
Download: osstag-0.1.tar.bz2