Proposal for components comprising the backend of TagTrade.org:
- A tag database containing information extracted from tags.
- A mailing list parser. Proposal for implementation: Public mailing lists
are subscribed to the email address mailing-list@tagtrade.org. Every email
that is sent to this address is forwarded to an engine that parses it for
tags and sorts information from these tags into the database.
- A news group parser. Proposal for implementation: News groups are fed into
news.tagtrade.org. Every messages received is parsed similarly for tags, and
the resulting information is stored in the database.
- A web forum parser. To get this working smoothly, the web fora in question
must support some kind of interface allowing automatic parsing of new
messages. If such an interface is not generally available, then one could
use a web search engine to do the data mining on the fora.
- A web paser. Proposal for implementation: Run the peer to peer based search
engine YaCy on this server and copy information
about tags from its internal database into the tag database.
