[pmwiki-users] Metadata ?

[Andrius Kulikauskas]

Hi, I've been exploring how to use metadata at our lab's PmWiki's.  For 
example, we are making social maps of activists in Kenya and ultimately 
around the world.  Samwel Kongere has collected answers from twenty 
people to a survey that we've put together, see for example:

http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/Profiles/GeorgeOmolloh
http://www.globalvillages.info/index.php/Profiles/StandardQuestions

I've made use of the Properties Cookbook:
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/Properties

''First names:'' {$property firstname}
(:properties firstname='George':)

''Last names:'' {$property lastname}
(:properties lastname='Omolloh':)

I've also experimented just a bit with PageVariables
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PageVariables
and with PageListTemplates
http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/PageListTemplates

What I think would be very useful would be able to list out the pages 
having a particular value for a particular variable, for example, all 
pages with country=Kenya.

Is that currently possible, or will that be possible?  I'm curious what 
strategy if any you might have for pursuing this.  I have been 
developing transLucid (http://www.pantha.net) to organize metadata but 
it may make more sense to adapt PmWiki as we're making good use of it at 
http://www.globalvillages.info and http://www.openleader.com

I'm interested, and thank you for what has been done so far.  I share 
with our lab's working group 
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/workinginparallel/

Andrius

Andrius Kulikauskas
Minciu Sodas
http://www.ms.lt
ms at ms.lt
+370 (5) 264 5950
Vilnius, Lithuania