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The scientific fields in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_science |
Classification of scientific software in Debian
The goal of this page is to discuss how software used for DebianScience could be properly classified.
There is clearly a [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00004.html demand] for [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/07/msg00002.html that]. There is also [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00013.html interest] for creating meta packages or a [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00021.html tasksel task].
Debtags
As [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ Debtags] are being [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/07/msg00016.html integrated into Packages files] it might be the way to go.
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00005.html Enrico Zini] is willing to assist but is looking for someone else to come up with some initial set of categories to discuss. [http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/paper-debtags.html#debtags-theoretical-foundations Relevant reading].
Debtags [http://alioth.debian.org/mail/?group_id=30454 mailing list subscriptions and archives]. [http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debtags Debtags on Alioth].
Some guidelines: ?DebTaggingGuidelines
Read also : http://www.enricozini.org/2007/paper-debconf7/
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00033.html Debtags and debram merging]
[http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00003.html Thaddeus H. Black] has expressed his involvement in the Debtags effort. He is also the author of the former debram effort that classified some science software in the 14 division. See [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00003.html his message].
Debtags already existing for the 'field' facet
You can search for the already tagged software with the debtags interface: http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/ssearch.html and tag software that has not been properly tagged:http://debtags.alioth.debian.org/todo.html
- field::astronomy
- field::biology
- field::chemistry
- field::electronics
- field::geography
- field::linguistics
- field::mathematics
- field::physics
- field::statistics
Other QA
Another QA effort that might be related is the PackagesDescriptionsReview. It may even be [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2005/08/msg00040.html the one to focus on first].
There is also the [http://ddtp.debian.net/ ddtp (in lack of a better link)] effort to translate the packages descriptions.
Tags discussion
The scientific fields in wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fields_of_science
The possible tags for Debian science related projects could be
- visualization - programs like gnuplot, labplot, mayavi etc.,
- data processing - programs like octave
- diagrams - programs like dia, xfig
- publishing - programs like latex, bibtex etc.,
Proposed categories
You can [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00011.html follow] this thread to see all opinions. Please add a wiki link to the following categories if it already exists a Debian Science wiki page related to any of the following. Try to spell out the categories to avoid mistakes, as [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00035.html suggested].
[wiki:?DebianScienceBiology science-biology] - It has been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00031.html suggested] to make it depend on med-bio and med-bio-dev
[wiki:?DebianSciencePhysics science-physics] - adopt dependencies from [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/education-physics education-physics]
[wiki:?DebianScienceChemistry science-chemistry] - plus adopt dependencies from [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/education-chemistry education-chemistry]
science-bibliography - It has been suggested to merge this with [wiki:?DebianSciencePublishing science-publishing]
[wiki:DebianGenomics science-genomics] - It has been suggested to make this a sub topic of [wiki:?DebianScienceBiology science-biology], something like science-biology-genomics possibly with a dummy package science-biology-full - not seperately available in Debian-Med
science-pharmaceuticals - It has been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00045.html suggested] to leave this to Debian-Med (do not hesitate to list the packages you are interested in here)
[wiki:?DebianScienceMathematics science-mathematics]
[wiki:?DebianScienceElectronics science-electronics]
- science-mechanical
[wiki:?DebianScienceAstronomy science-astronomy] - plus adopt dependencies from [http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/education-astronomy education-astronomy]
- science-structural
- science-architectural
science-medical-imaging - [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00045.html Covered] by debian-med
- science-signal-processing
- science-agricultural
- science-geophysical
- science-climatology
- science-fluid-dynamics
- science-archaeology
science-anthropology - It has been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00037.html suggested] to be the same as archaeology
- science-sociology
- science-economics
- science-geography
science-psychology - It has been [http://lists.debian.org/debian-science/2007/02/msg00045.html suggested] to leave this to debian-med
- science-linguistics
- science-hci
[wiki:?DebianSciencePublishing science-publishing]