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Relationships a la musicbrainz
Have a look at how musicbrainz handles relationships:
http://musicbrainz.org/show/artist/relationships.html?artistid=20
Basically, you could relate ohloh projects to other projects, to websites, to special types of urls such as wikipedia articles or entries in other project trackers.
Greetings Tobu,
Thanks very much for the suggestion. I've modeled what an analogous might look like for ohloh. Types of relationships could include:
- wikipedia entries
- awards
- libraries used/linked by a project
- apps built using/linking to this project
- organizations behind the project (funding)
It's a neat concept but I'm having trouble seeing how it would provide much more value than simply enabling the project description to be more wiki-ish (ie: formatting and links). The only answer I can come up with is that this feature would provide structured data instead of the unstructured form it would take in a project description. However, this is only valuable if we're subsequently able to leverage the structured data. This is where this feature loses its appeal for me: what could Ohloh derive from this structured data?
Perhaps I'm missing something more. Please let me know if you feel differently.
Thanks again!
Actually, if you were able to interconnect projects with a series of meaningful relationships: dependencies, concurrent projects, fork projects, etc., you could create a relationship map that would probably be quite useful.
Ex. if users have contributed this information, someone looking for information on a project that appears to be dead could find links to active forks.
