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Re: [PATCH 3/7] gnu: Add r-biocviews.
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Ricardo Wurmus |
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Re: [PATCH 3/7] gnu: Add r-biocviews. |
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Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:08:48 +0200 |
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Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>>> + (synopsis "Bioconductor structures for vocabularies and narratives of
>>> +views")
>>
>> I don’t know what this means. Does this mean “data structures”? What
>> is a vocabulary or narrative in this case?
>
> No, it means a structured way of describing things by keywords. It is
> an attempt at standardizing meta data to create a search function. A
> vocabulary is a stricter set of words to use for a purpose. So, package
> maintainers should use existing keywords when they reasonably fit
> instead of creating new keywords who's meaning is almost identical to an
> existing keyword.
Thanks for the explanation!
> Would the following synopsis and description be good?
>
>> (synopsis "Bioconductor package categorization helper")
>> (description "The purpose of biocViews is to create HTML pages that
>> categorize packages in a Bioconductor package repository according to
>> keywords,
>> also known as views, in a controlled vocabulary.")
Yes, that’s much better. Thank you!
~~ Ricardo