Re: upstream/metadata with references to software catalogs^Wregistries?
Hello again,
just to render it all a bit more tangible:
On 22/06/16 11:30, Steffen Möller wrote:
> Matúš and I are having a mini-sprint together - directly at the baltic
> sea - to get the integration of Debian packages and their annotation
> with the bio.tools registry a bit of a push. One issue that just came up
> was that the accession number/ID of the uploaded entry should be stored
> somewhere. We thought that debian/upstream/metadata would be a good home
> for this information. That entry would not only be for decorative
> purposes but basically help to update entries when our debian/control or
> debian/upstream/{edam,metadata} files have changed. Would anyone mind?
> Andreas, Charles?
Our plans are to offer reference to
* the bio.tools registry (obviously)
* the SeqWiki (since this community feeds the bio.tools and for now we
would start upload to bio.tools what is not coming from the SeqWiki)
The debian/upstream/metadata file would then for bowtie see the
additional lines
Registry:
Name: bio.tools
Entry: http://bio.tools/tool/DebianMed/bowtie/1.1.1
Registry:
Name: SEQwiki
Entry: http://seqanswers.com/wiki/Bowtie
The bio.tools registry has the obvious problem that the version should
not be passed along. Fixable, one tends to think.
The motivation for a package maintainer to add those references could be
* better visibility, i.e. hope for a reverse link, so the own work is
found more quickly, at least for the bio.tools this is coming
* the references may guide users to additional information on how to
include the package in their workflow
If there is no opposition to add such references, then we may go ahead
with a few today.
Best,
Steffen
Reply to: