RRIDs for debian/upstream/metadata
Hello,
We had a quick exchange on RRIDs on this list before, if I am not
erroneous. Michael is particularly supportive of them and again, correct
me if I am wrong and if you care, we had another not ultimately decisive
discussion about them at the Debian Med Sprint this year. Once you are
made aware of them, though, you start seeing them and so I thought,
well, let us see what they look like. The Bowtie entry is
RRID:SCR_005476 at
https://www.scicrunch.org/scicrunch/Resources/search?q=SCR_005476 .
Sadly, I yet did not find a way to directly link to the entry.
What triggered my interest was the omicsTools.com folks who would very
much like to link to us. The RRID is very natural to them. They have
sent me a list of their mappings of their entries to our packages and by
looking only at the package name some assignments are indeed ambiguous.
So, there is some immediate use case here. I was also kindly informed
that our Bowtie 1.x package is outdated (upstream moved to github, so
the watch file was outdated). So when together with a colleague I today
got around fixing that, I also added an entry for the RRID, see here:
https://anonscm.debian.org/viewvc/debian-med/trunk/packages/bowtie/trunk/debian/upstream/metadata?view=markup
I think it kind of looks O.K. If there are no objections from your
sides, I will add more of these references over the upcoming months.
Would be great to see others chime in on that. From our side we would
get access to the "co-use statistics" the RRID folks provide, which may
help our users to construct their workflows.
Best,
Steffen
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