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

[Thomas Lin Pedersen]

And then there might be a whole problem about different social media summarising html content in different ways. This might be more trouble than it’s worth but more and more scientific news are moving to social media and it would definitely help share the Bioconductor brand (geez, I sound like a marketing guy now…)


> On 29 Oct 2015, at 14:59, Jim Hester <james.f.hester at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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 <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 <mailto: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 <mailto: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 <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 <mailto: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
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