Re: Summary of Debian Science BOF at DebConf

[Christian Kastner <debian@kvr.at>]

Hi Charles,

On 10/04/2010 05:37 PM, Charles Plessy wrote:
> Le Mon, Oct 04, 2010 at 12:37:11PM +0200, Christian Kastner a écrit :
>> On 10/04/2010 08:40 AM, Andreas Tille wrote:
>>>    biology::nuceleic-acids
>>>    biology::peptidic
>>>    biology::format:*
>> Off the top of my hat, biology::format:* should go into
>> works-with-format::*, and the other two maybe could be just moved to
>> fields::biology:.
> 
> In the past, I tended to want to describe packages in details with Debtags, but
> nowardays I feel that the best is to use combinations of generic facets.  For
> instance field::biology + works-with::image for biological imaging instead of
> field::biology:imaging.

This is also what I was aiming for in my initial mail -- you just
expressed it better, and with far fewer words :-)

Quoting the relevant part:

On 10/03/2010 10:38 PM, Christian Kastner wrote:
> The science:: facet has some overlap with the use::facet, for example:
>   science::calculation
>   use::calculating
>   science::visualization
>   use::viewing		(description says: "Data Visualization")
>
> Personally, I'd prefer to see all these generalized to uses:: and
> specialized by field:: or whatever, if that is even necessary.

I will include a list of such potential overlaps in my proposal in the
wiki page.


Christian