Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN)
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The record
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What we add
Topic graph
A wire service tags a release with a category, once. It doesn't maintain a durable graph over time. We connect them to a topic graph an agent can query.
Application https://decisioninsights.ai/term/application/
Components https://decisioninsights.ai/term/components/
Metadata https://decisioninsights.ai/term/metadata/
and 2 more
Counted facts
A protocol or open source project keeps no vendor list and publishes no figures of its own to check this against. This counts how it actually shows up across the graph -- articles that name it, the organizations named alongside it in those articles, similar projects, and organizations whose topic tags overlap with its own -- computed, not curated.
Related projects Perl, Apache mod_perl, Apache Xerces for Perl XML Parser, Apache Commons Compress, Apache Commons, CoMPAS
Related organizations Arachnid.cc, Avetyc GmbH, Casewise, ipoque - a Rohde & Schwarz, Securus Technologies, Alticast, Backslash Security, Bitnami