Le lundi 14 décembre 2009 à 12:37 +0100, Guillem Jover a écrit : > Hi! > > On Sun, 2009-08-02 at 18:47:00 +0900, Charles Plessy wrote: > > In the Debian Med and Science teams, we are looking for efficient ways to > > document slow-changing metadata relevant to our packages, in particular: > > > Alternatives will be much easier to build if we manage to centralise the > > information in a common place. This could be in the source packages > > themselves, either in a dedicated file or in debian/control (but not > > necessarly ending in the Packages and Sources files), or in the file we > > use to create our metapackages. Ultimately we would like to be able to > > have this information flow in places like the Ultimate Debian Database > > and the web pages proposing the packages for download. > > Given that this is supposed to be upstream-only information, are you > aware of DOAP [0]? It seems to me it would be better to reuse already > existing infrastructure than to create yet a new one, that only a > subset of Debian might end up using. This could also be submitted > upstream I think. > > It's XML though, but it could be easily transformed to any output format > we'd want to use, say control-style for example, which most of our tools > already handle, if need be. > > [0] <http://trac.usefulinc.com/doap> > <http://www.oss-watch.ac.uk/resources/doap.xml> >
+1 for the use of RDF and appropriate ontologies, like DOAP, FOAF and other like scientific publication related, as already discussed previously on -da list IIRC. My 2 cents, -- Olivier BERGER <olivier.ber...@it-sudparis.eu> http://www-public.it-sudparis.eu/~berger_o/ - OpenPGP-Id: 1024D/6B829EEC Ingénieur Recherche - Dept INF Institut TELECOM, SudParis (http://www.it-sudparis.eu/), Evry (France) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
