Re: [PATCH 3/7] gnu: Add r-biocviews.

[Roel Janssen]

Ricardo Wurmus writes:

> Roel Janssen <address@hidden> writes:
>
>>>> +    (synopsis "Bioconductor structures for vocabularies and narratives of 
>>>> +views")
>>>
>>> I don’t know what this means.  Does this mean “data structures”?  What
>>> is a vocabulary or narrative in this case?
>>
>> No, it means a structured way of describing things by keywords.  It is
>> an attempt at standardizing meta data to create a search function.  A
>> vocabulary is a stricter set of words to use for a purpose.  So, package
>> maintainers should use existing keywords when they reasonably fit
>> instead of creating new keywords who's meaning is almost identical to an
>> existing keyword.
>
> Thanks for the explanation!
>
>> Would the following synopsis and description be good?
>>
>>>    (synopsis "Bioconductor package categorization helper")
>>>    (description "The purpose of biocViews is to create HTML pages that
>>> categorize packages in a Bioconductor package repository according to 
>>> keywords,
>>> also known as views, in a controlled vocabulary.")
>
> Yes, that’s much better.  Thank you!

Thanks for the quick response!  I pushed it with these changes.

Kind regards,
Roel Janssen