From: Ricardo Wurmus <rekado@elephly.net>
To: Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/7] gnu: Add r-biocviews.
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2016 14:08:48 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87r37csfqn.fsf@elephly.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87y41khfeb.fsf@gnu.org>
Roel Janssen <roel@gnu.org> 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
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-10-19 12:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-09-15 11:38 [PATCH 3/7] gnu: Add r-biocviews Roel Janssen
2016-09-19 12:46 ` Ricardo Wurmus
2016-10-19 9:11 ` Roel Janssen
2016-10-19 12:08 ` Ricardo Wurmus [this message]
2016-10-19 13:18 ` Roel Janssen
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