[Bioperl-l] Referencing BioPerl

[jong]

Hi,

> 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.

I agree with you on the importance of graveyard stone-copy of knowledge.
I think people should write a paper on the
philosophy, scientific part, novelty and advanced technology of bioperl that
can be archived in a journal.

Are you up for it :-) ?

Anyway, I suggest Bioperl developers contribute to it.

Best

Jong




> 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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