Hi, On Thu, Dec 17, 2015 at 02:24:38AM +0100, Matthias Klumpp wrote: > > Coming from a science background myself, I like this idea very much!
:-) > However, we shouldn't add each and every metadata to the AppStream > document, so we would need to go through what the UpstreamMetadata > project offers and see if we can integrate it with AppStream. > The main purpose of AppStream is to provide data to have people decide > if they want to install the software, its secondary purpose is to > contain data which the users might find useful to know when browsing > applications. :-) > I think having a <bibliography> tag or something similar would be > pretty cool - searching in the AppStream data pool for applications > associated with a publication, or just have the publications at hand > when looking atthe application would be awesome! > > Even if there is useful data which we don't include in the AppStream > data, we can probably link it and load it on-demand. I have some ideas > for this for parts of AppStream (like the <releases> tag) already, but > haven't worked out the details - so far, this is just early > experimentation to see whether something like that makes sense. > > So, in summary: I'll look at the wiki page to familiarize a bit with > your upstream-metadata project, so I can say something more > meaningful. But I think adding most of the data to the AS metadata > would be a good and viable idea :-) Just to give some additional technical background: The bibliographic data are gathered in UDD in the table bibref. I just noticed that there is some problem with the umegaya importer[1] but I plan to tackle this soon. Once this is done the bibref example which can be seen here: http://blends.debian.net/packages-metadata/ will be updated again. This is actually my test case for the importer success (which has some flaws as discussed in [1]) and just an example what can be currently done with the available data. I guess there is way more possible usage like a debhelper script doing some sensible things with the bibliographic data (but so far not even a definition what would be sensible). Thanks for the AppStream initiative in general which has a big potential also for Blends Andreas. [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2015/12/msg00105.html -- http://fam-tille.de