On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 09:53:39AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote: > > > I've added two more tags for debian-science, after a discussion we had > > > at Debconf: > > > > > > Tag: science::calculation > > > Description: Calculation > > > > Wouldn't "science::computation" be more appropriate than "calculation" ? > [...] > > That said, since all programs do computation (I guess packages of data > don't), I'm not sure what the scope of the tag is. If you look at all the science::* tags, the idea is to make them follow the various steps of the possible workflow of creating a scientific paper: calculation would be the number-crunching bits. Tag: science::calculation Description: Calculation Tag: science::modelling Description: Modelling Tag: science::data-acquisition Description: Data acquisition Tag: science::plotting Description: Plotting Tag: science::bibliography Description: Bibliography Tag: science::publishing Description: Publishing Tag: science::visualisation Description: Visualization This is an idea that allows to support at least a number of common practical tasks in the life of scientists. It doesn't cover them all, and it's not very fine grained, but any of these tags will bring the package list down from 20000 to (guessing) like 200/300, and then one can refine further using the other tags: add interface::* and role::* and you ought to get down to (guessing) 20 or so, which is a perfectly reasonable number of packages to read sequentially. Ciao, Enrico -- GPG key: 4096R/E7AD5568 2009-05-08 Enrico Zini <enrico@enricozini.org>
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