[Bioperl-l] Referencing BioPerl

[Peter Kos]

Hi,

Thanks for the fast answers.
I agree with your opinion about the preferential kind of referencing.
However, my opinion is of inferior importance as compared to the one 
of the editorial boards of journals. Luckily, they tend to 
accommodate.
My primary problems with the paper-publication and paper-reference 
are that they are sometimes not easily accessible and anyway, they 
become the property of the publisher with respect to copyrights and 
stuff like that.
On the other hand, once something gets printed on the certain page of 
the given issue of a given journal, then it is there for the next 
hundreds of years no matter how many libraries get Boeing-attacks. 
Which is not always true with URLs (as "dynamic source") which 
eventually change domain names, can be hacked and defaced, or the 
maintenance fund may be discontinued, etc.
As the movie did not cease the  theatre and the DVD did not put a 
stop to the movie, the printed literature also has its future.

Regards
Peter

On Friday, April 05, 2002 12:01 PM, jong [SMTP:jong@bio.cc] wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Because of the very nature of Bioperl from the very conception,
> it will continuously evolve accommodating very different
> needs of very different people. In 3 years of time, the people
> involved and the direction it will take could be different from the
> one(s) now. There is no ultimate classic bioperl paper as
> it did not start off from a grant or paper but from an open,
> free and flexible organization/gathering of people over the
> Internet.
>
> So, I think the best way of referencing is to site the web address
> that is most active (bio.perl.org, bioperl.org etc) and relevant
> to your paper. That is the bioperlly way.
>
> Can you ask the webmaster of that site to put some documentation/
> reference link if there is not a good one yet?(Chris Dagdigan can
> help you
> on this I guess).
>
> Also, the reason why authors 'refer' to paper (when you think of
> 1800s) was to let new-comers to learn and old-stayers get
> information from
> the original source. Now the Internet is a great dynamic source of
> such
> resource. So, why don't we support it?
>
> Who knows, in the year 2020, people may find it odd
> to refer a 'paper' rather than a digital Inernet site/server (or
> the
> successor of present Internet).
>
> Best,
>
> Jong
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Kos" <kos@rite.or.jp>
> To: <bioperl-l@bioperl.org>
> Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 3:42 AM
> Subject: [Bioperl-l] Referencing BioPerl
>
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > how can I reference BioPerl in publications? Has it been 
published
> > in
> > the old-fashion printed way in the last seven years?
> >
> > Thanx
> > Peter
> >
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