On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 12:28 PM, Ciaran McCreesh <ciaran.mccre...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On Mon, 24 Mar 2014 10:55:38 -0400 > Damien Levac <damien.le...@gmail.com> wrote: >> A lot of people already replied to this question: package search. > > Sure, but can you point to prior examples of this kind of stuff > actually working? > eix -C allows you to search for categories. It's horrendously under-powered, but almost a useful prototype of what could be.
Pandora uses this general concept with superb granularity for graphing similarities in music. That the MGP data is only used for a streaming service is depressing. Alternativeto.net is software oriented and has a good bit of this. Results? http://alternativeto.net/tag/tiling/ Bam. Tiling window managers. (These are almost certainly all user-sourced; notice the innocent misuse in that list.) The various Danbooru-style sites will generally show off impressive community-sourced rigour as well as proving the efficacy of alias/implication at scale. I have a lot of respect for their collective pep. Most are NSFW, but this one probably won't be (much): http://safebooru.org/ The Library of Congress? (The modern library is practically built on this sort of metadata.) Regards, Wyatt
