[pkg-bioc] CVS %p

[Steffen Moeller]

Hello,

On Tuesday 22 May 2007 16:49:32 Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
> (Resending, failed to use group reply at first... --Dirk)
>
> On 22 May 2007 at 16:18, Daniel Bayer wrote:
> | Hello Dirk,
> |
> | Am Dienstag 22 Mai 2007 13:19 schrieb Dirk Eddelbuettel:
> | > On 22 May 2007 at 09:27, CVS User db-guest wrote:
> | > | Update of /cvsroot/pkg-bioc/papers/nettab2007
> | > | In directory alioth:/tmp/cvs-serv30179
> | > |
> | > | Modified Files:
> | > | 	bioc.pdf bioc.tex
> | > | Log Message:
> | > | The Conference is on Semantic Web. So we don't have to cite the
> | > | wikipedia for RDF. And for ARC we are already citing the paper
> | > | [8]
> | >
> | > Well I can't resist being pedantic here. Having a definition never
> | > hurts, and aiming at only a narrow set of specialists may not be
> | > good.  There may well be people finding / reading the paper who
> | > come from 'R at large' who think ARC is a stats program [ if memory
> | > serves, there ones was one.
> |
> | Well, mostly I don't like citing Wikipedia for no good reason. I
>
> "No good reason" ?  How about defining a technical term and acronym used in
> the paper?  I can't think of many better reason.

I'll check if ARC was explained before, I just printed the paper. I agree that 
terms that are already explained by a citation to a journal article do not 
need an extra ref to Wikipedia. We do not crossref to the Encyclopedia 
Britannica iether and if we do, then we quote them. If the readers understand 
that there is a Grid infrastructure called ARC then they have understood 
enough for the paper in my view. For the rest they can follow the cited 
paper, ask google or indeed Wikipedida.

> | assume every interested reader of the article is able to do such a
> | search on his own. With the last commit a Abbreviations-Section was

> By that logic we should save a tree and delete the reference section too.

Was there some small animal crossing your liver? 

> | added on the first page. I think this serves the purpose. Are you
> | fine with this solution?
>
> Not really, but it's a multi-author paper so I'll be overvoted

Sorry. I just added the Expression QTL reference (a nature review). I'll give 
it another read now to check out the ARC issue and then ... if there is no 
other serious issue arising ... will send it to the organisers.

Many gretings

Steffen



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Dr. Steffen Möller
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