Hello,
on https://wiki.debian.org/UpstreamMetadata we describe how Research
Resource Identifiers (RRIDs) can be used to further annotate a package
and help to link a package of Debian with e.g. a scientific paper using
that software. Also, workflow engines have adopted them as identifiers
to auto-prepare their execution environments.
Thanks to <tille> this data is available in the UDD and I would very
much like to help search engines out there to find that information.
Some external catalogs like OMICtools
(https://omictools.com/cufflinks-tool) already manually set these links
as part of their own routine annotation.
A few entries a bit more difficult than others when catalog entries (and
Debian packages) differ in their granularity in their look on the
software world. There are a few software packages (likely with one
shared publication) that has multiple binaries that perform different
bits in a workflow - and have different RRIDs assigned. And it is
unclear if there are separate Debian packages for them or just one. The
schema may hence evolve a bit, still, but it seems very reasonable to
start integrating it all already for the 95% that just work.
Would the tracker team like to see these references listed? Would our
community at large embrace them? What would you need?
Many thanks
Steffen
