[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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