[wplug] Tag database for text

[Patrick Wagstrom]

On Tue, 2006-10-10 at 13:33 -0700, Shane Liesegang wrote:
> Apologies for cross-posting...
> 
> I'm looking for some software that would let me (and preferably a group 
> of users) create a database of text files (or just text snippets) and 
> record metadata for each of them. Then, we'd want to be able to quickly 
> search and filter based on that metadata. Essentially, it would be like 
> iTunes, but for text instead of audio files.
> 
> Is there anything like this? It sounds really similar to a wiki, but 
> wikis aren't as good at metadata tagging, in my experience. Anybody have 
> any thoughts?

http://www.chipx86.com/wiki/Leaftag

LeafTag is probably pretty close to what you want.  There is even some
support in Beagle for indexing the tags.

--Patrick