Re: [uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-24 Thread Ben Ward
On 24 Jan 2009, at 08:49, Manu Sporny wrote: li...@ben-ward.co.uk wrote: This community very intentionally doesn't try create specifications for everything. Previous pure-science efforts such as species died because it fell way outside the area of active interest of most of this community's

Re: [uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-24 Thread Manu Sporny
li...@ben-ward.co.uk wrote: > This community very intentionally doesn't try create specifications for > everything. Previous pure-science efforts such as species died because > it fell way outside the area of active interest of most of this > community's participants. I don't think that's the def

Re: [uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-24 Thread Manu Sporny
André Luís wrote: > http://bioformats.org/ > > Why is this being developed outside of this community? Possibly because they don't quite understand how the Microformats Process works. I know our first impression was that we didn't need to perform any sort of centralized development through the Mic

[uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-24 Thread Toby A Inkster
Ben Ward wrote: This community very intentionally doesn't try create specifications for everything. Previous pure-science efforts such as species died because it fell way outside the area of active interest of most of this community's participants. Not dead, only resting. (Pining for the fjo

Re: [uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-23 Thread lists
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:18:19 +, "André Luís" said: > Why is this being developed outside of this community? Has anyone > heard of this before and/or have contacted the founders of this > project? This community very intentionally doesn't try create specifications for everything. Previous pu

Re: [uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-23 Thread Christopher Bare
Hi all, I don't speak for the researchers behind bioformats, but as someone interested in using microformats (or what you call POSH formats for that matter) in the field of bioinformatics. First, I'd like to see efforts such as bioformats.org encouraged. Bioinformatics is a field with tons of dat

[uf-discuss] Bioformats - microformats for biology

2009-01-23 Thread André Luís
http://bioformats.org/ Why is this being developed outside of this community? Has anyone heard of this before and/or have contacted the founders of this project? I guess they should read the http://microformats.org/wiki/poshformats page... I see no documentation of discussion nor any study of exa