----- Original Message ----- > From: "Jiří Hon" <xhonj...@stud.fit.vutbr.cz> > To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel@r-project.org> > Sent: Thursday, October 29, 2015 7:05:57 AM > Subject: Re: [Bioc-devel] Idea for improved visibility of Bioconductor > packages
> The implementation of Open Graph protocol should solve this, at least > for LinkedIn and Facebook. See > https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/share-on-linkedin (at the bottom of > the page). I've tweaked the package landing pages so their HTML contains (for example, for the EBImage package): <meta property="og:title" content="EBImage" /> <meta property="og:type" content="website" /> <meta property="og:site_name" content="Bioconductor" /> <meta property="og:description" content="EBImage provides general purpose functionality for image processing and analysis. In the context of (high-throughput) microscopy-based cellular assays, EBImage offers tools to segment cells and extract quantitative cellular descriptors. This allows the automation of such tasks using the R programming language and facilitates the use of other tools in the R environment for signal processing, statistical modeling, machine learning and visualization with image data." /> <meta property="og:url" content="http://bioconductor.org/packages/EBImage/"; /> <meta property="og:image" content="http://bioconductor.org/images/logo/jpg/bioconductor_logo_rgb.jpg"; /> This should cause sites that implement the Open Graph Protocol (like LinkedIn and Facebook) to extract these elements from the page. Adding a custom image for each package will need to wait for another iteration. We need to decide on some standard for declaring these images, either a field/url in the DESCRIPTION file, and/or a standard location within the package. Dan > > Jiri Hon > > Dne 29.10.2015 v 14:59 Jim Hester napsal(a): >> It seems to be pulling it from an invisible `#tooltip` div on the page. >> This happens to be the first `<p>` block on the page, which is probably why >> it is being used by linkedin. >> >> ```html >> <div class="tooltip2" id="tooltip"> >> <p>To install this package, start R and enter:</p> >> <pre>## try http:// if https:// URLs are not supported >> source("https://bioconductor.org/biocLite.R";) >> biocLite("biobroom")</pre> >> <p> In most cases, you don't need to download the >> package archive at all.</p> >> </div> >> ``` >> >> Probably these results could be improved by moving this tooltip block below >> the package description, or annotating it with some metadata to exclude it >> from the linkedin summary (I don't know what that would be). >> >> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:50 AM, Kasper Daniel Hansen < >> kasperdanielhan...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >>> For people like me who might be a bit behind on social media, it might be >>> nice to identify where the blurb is generated from. Is it the first >>> sentence of the description or ...? >>> >>> Best, >>> Kasper >>> >>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 9:48 AM, Andrzej Oleś <andrzej.o...@gmail.com> >>> wrote: >>> >>>> Hi Thomas, >>>> >>>> thank you for sharing your idea! >>>> >>>> One possibility would be to include a package icon/logo next to the >>> package >>>> name if the package provides one. This file could be saved as >>> inst/logo.png >>>> or vignettes/logo.png, e.g. see >>>> https://github.com/aoles/EBImage/blob/master/vignettes/logo.png >>>> >>>> Best, >>>> Andrzej >>>> >>>> On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Thomas Lin Pedersen < >>> thomas...@gmail.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> I just sat down to write a linkedIn update about my recent package and >>>>> noticed that a thumbnail styled summary was added once I put in the URL >>>> for >>>>> my package (this is probably old news - I’m not much of a social media >>>>> guy). The summary was a bit dull though, and I was wondering if it was >>>>> possible to change something on the package landing pages to spice >>> these >>>>> thumbnails up a bit, so they would appear more exciting when people >>> share >>>>> their work on Facebook/linkedIn/Twitter… >>>>> >>>>> Don’t know how much work this entail - it is definitely in the >>>>> nice-to-have rather than need-to-have pile of feature requests >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>>> >>>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>>> >>> >>> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >>> >> >> [[alternative HTML version deleted]] >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel >> > > _______________________________________________ > Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel _______________________________________________ Bioc-devel@r-project.org mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
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