Hi, One thing I'd like to have added to the nice package overviews at http://cdd.alioth.debian.org/science/tasks/chemistry.html etc. is a canonical reference which should be given in scientific papers using that package.
On the one hand, this is mandated by some (non-free) packages already, on the other hand, it is good scientific practise and would be nice to have better exposed and centrally available. E.g, for mpqc, this would be (see http://www.mpqc.org/pub.php) "The Massively Parallel Quantum Chemistry Program (MPQC), Version 2.3.1, Curtis L. Janssen, Ida B. Nielsen, Matt L. Leininger, Edward F. Valeev, Joseph P. Kenny, Edward T. Seidl, Sandia National Laboratories, Livermore, CA, USA, 2008" I don't think this belongs into the package description, but maybe as a X-* field in debian/control post-lenny. For lenny, we could add a field/comment in some svn repository (not sure from what sources those nice overviews are generated). Also, having this would sense a clear signal to upstream authors that we consider proper citing important and that enforcing citations in copyright licensing is not the best thing to do. A second thing would be to optionally add the DOI (or maybe the full reference, not sure) of one or a couple (not too many, obviously) papers describing the package, if there is any. Sometimes, this might be the same reference as the canonical citing reference, but usually not. The DOIs could then be written as http://dx.doi.org/<DOI> links for easy access (though I'm not sure what to write as link text, maybe the reference text as would be given in a paper) Again, for MPQC, this would be DOI:10.1088/1742-6596/46/1/031, DOI:10.1002/jcc.20815 What do you think? Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
