[pkg-bioc] Conversion of BioC Views to Debtags

Steffen Moeller steffen_moeller at gmx.de
Wed May 30 14:27:26 UTC 2007


Hi all,

we have not yet addressed the tagging of our packages, something imminently 
important as the number of packages has grown so high.

I have just packaged the biocViews
http://bioconductor.org/packages/2.0/bioc/html/biocViews.html
package and am daydreaming about how to merge that with the Debtags out there. 
There are two hurdles:

* preparation of new Debtags

  We should come up with our own sensible tagging and send kind emails. Daniel 
might meet some Debtaggers at the DebConf in Edinburgh and discuss things 
further.

* semantics 

  There are some default tags since our packages are all R packages - easy ;o) 
For the others I mostly  see them under field::biology with the hierarch 
kept. But what should we do with a description of a microarray chip? I do not 
real idea yet. use::converting maybe. And made-of::data:R.

* Assignments to packages

The file format is fairly straight forward. Tags are identified by their full 
path, consequently there is no term with multiple parents. A single line per 
package:
arb-doc: field::biology, made-of::data:html, role::documentation
I think we can find ways to generate such entries dynamically and I'll come 
with something. An interference with the build process should not be 
required, just optional, so I would say.

Comments are warmly welcomed

Steffen



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