[Bioc-devel] Idea for improved visibility of Bioconductor packages

Tue Nov 3 13:44:19 CET 2015

Hi Dan,

many thanks for introducing the Open Graph Protocol on package landing
pages! It's nice to see how package presentation is constantly improving.

I've noticed is that the Bioconductor logo gets typically resized and
cropped to a rectangular aspect ratio of 1.66 (LinkedIn) or 1.91
(Facebook). The result is a bit disappointing, as the resulting central
cutout is unreadable.

Maybe we could provide an optimized image, both in terms of dimensions and
file size? One possibility would be to use a rectangular logo similar to
the one on twitter, see
https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/1993565463/note.jpg

There are some detailed Facebook-specific recommendations available at
https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/best-practices#images

Cheers,
Andrzej

On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 2:05 AM, Dan Tenenbaum <dtenenba at fredhutch.org>
wrote:

>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Jiří Hon" <xhonji01 at stud.fit.vutbr.cz>
> > To: "bioc-devel" <bioc-devel at 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 <
> >> kasperdanielhansen at 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.oles at 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 <
> >>> thomasp85 at 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 at r-project.org mailing list
> >>>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
> >>>>
> >>>>          [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >>>>
> >>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> >>>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
> >>>>
> >>>
> >>>          [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >>>
> >>> _______________________________________________
> >>> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> >>> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
> >>>
> >>
> >>      [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
> >>
> >> _______________________________________________
> >> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> >> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
> >>
> >
> > _______________________________________________
> > Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
>
> _______________________________________________
> Bioc-devel at r-project.org mailing list
> https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/bioc-devel
>

	[[alternative HTML version deleted]]