Roel Janssen <r...@gnu.org> 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! ~~ Ricardo
