Added tags science::calculation and science::visualisation

[Enrico Zini]

On Sat, Sep 05, 2009 at 09:53:39AM -0700, Ross Boylan wrote:

> > > I've added two more tags for debian-science, after a discussion we had
> > > at Debconf:
> > > 
> > > Tag: science::calculation
> > > Description: Calculation
> > 
> > Wouldn't "science::computation" be more appropriate than "calculation" ?
> 
[...]
> 
> That said, since all programs do computation (I guess packages of data
> don't), I'm not sure what the scope of the tag is.

If you look at all the science::* tags, the idea is to make them follow
the various steps of the possible workflow of creating a scientific
paper: calculation would be the number-crunching bits.

Tag: science::calculation
Description: Calculation

Tag: science::modelling
Description: Modelling

Tag: science::data-acquisition
Description: Data acquisition

Tag: science::plotting
Description: Plotting

Tag: science::bibliography
Description: Bibliography

Tag: science::publishing
Description: Publishing

Tag: science::visualisation
Description: Visualization

This is an idea that allows to support at least a number of common
practical tasks in the life of scientists. It doesn't cover them all,
and it's not very fine grained, but any of these tags will bring the
package list down from 20000 to (guessing) like 200/300, and then one
can refine further using the other tags: add interface::* and role::*
and you ought to get down to (guessing) 20 or so, which is a perfectly
reasonable number of packages to read sequentially.


Ciao,

Enrico

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