Dear all, last year, Michael opened a discussion to have bibliographic information displayed in package summaries:
http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected] In the discussion that followed, we talked about where to store this information, and in which format, since adding more content to the debian/control file is not an easy thing (it ‘costs’ a lot because it goes to pivotal files like the Packages.gz files on our mirrors). A four line summary is available here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianScience/References This year, some progresses are being made. For the display, Andreas has modified the ‘Web sentinels’ so that they can display bibliographic informations. See http://debian-med.alioth.debian.org/tasks/bio for instance. But currently the limitation of the system is that the bibliographic information is in a quite remote location, in the Blends ‘tasks’ files. I am currently working on a new workflow which would help the maintainers to document bibliographic information and much more, and would be very interested to hear your comments. As Michael suggested initially, for bibliographyait consists in having ‘DOI’ or ‘PubMed’ fields in a file contained in the source package, in that case ‘debian/upstream-metadata.yaml’. When the package is stored in a VCS, it is quite easy to extract it and to assemble package summaries. See for instance the following URLs: http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/table/DOI http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/table/Homepage I hope these tables can be pipelined into the ‘Ultimate Debian Database’ (http://wiki.debian.org/UltimateDebianDatabase) and be the basis for the generation of our Blends ‘Web sentinels’. A discussion takes place on the debian-QA mailing list: http://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/[email protected] Please feel free to join it if you would like. For the more specific target of documenting references, I propose to reopen here the discussion started by Michael. Whole BibTeX bibliographies can be stored: ‘http://upstream-metadata.debian.net/table/Reference’. BibTeX is not the only reference format, but has the advantage of being used by most publishers for citation retreival (but not for paper subission…). Nevertheless, if there are good reasons to not store monolithic BibTeX references and use another format or approach, I would be very interested to hear them. Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Debian Med packaging team, http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-med Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
