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

From: "Ji?? 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).

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 Ole? <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

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