Allow tagging or some other sort of categorization

[arowla]

We need a way to distinguish words from different subject areas. What if a word has different definitions in more than one subject area?

[konklone]

Agreed. I was thinking about a "Tags: one, two, three" at the bottom of an entry, that our parser would read in as an array. This wouldn't be enough to enable multiple context-specific definitions for a term, but it would allow basic categorization.

I was also thinking of at some point introducing real namespaces, like "congress", represented as directories, which would allow multiple definitions of a term, but I was hoping to wait until that was a pain point, since it'd up the complexity of the system.

[gregelin]

I definitely think tagging should be kept at the bottom of a definition.

[konklone]

I agree - though I am (probably temporarily) moving the terms imported from the State Decoded into a "legal" directory, and the congressional terms into a "congress" directory. Until things stabilize, it's easier for me to iterate on the Congress terms and test out formats without them blending into the mass of imported stuff. It also may be an indicator that there's a need for one level of hierarchy, and tagging for other kinds of grouping -- and maybe not.