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Tidy up what we have and plan future work #7

Open maurolepore opened 7 years ago

maurolepore commented 7 years ago

Hi @odealab and @melisacbl,

Our next step, in my opinion, should be to do two things before the end of January (after, it is likely that I will no longer be in Panama):

(A) TIDY UP WHAT WE HAVE NOW

(B) PLAN FUTURE WORK

@melisacbl: by next Monday, would you be able to advance with item 2 (transform...)? I will advance with item 1. Then, we could discuss our progress here and, if necessary, we could meet on skype.

Cheers, Mauro

melisacbl commented 7 years ago

Hi @maurolepore,

I can't really make the guide into a book chapter because I am having some trouble fitting the tables of information for the corals into one page. I actually had this same problem when I was developing the book in the beginning. My initial method was to manually type in the desired width of each table column so that they will all fit into a page without making the words too cramped. But that was taking too much time (because I'm not that affluent in R yet), so I basically used microsoft word to make the guide and converted that into PDF for the physical copy of the guide (the online version was made with Rmarkdown). So I'm sorry I can't do much here... But if you have any advice/tips, I'm happy to hear them and try them out.

Cheers, Melisa

On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 10:47 PM, Mauro Lepore notifications@github.com wrote:

Hi @odealab https://github.com/odealab and @melisacbl https://github.com/melisacbl,

Our next step, in my opinion, should be to do two things before the end of January (after, it is likely that I will no longer be in Panama):

(A) TIDY UP WHAT WE HAVE NOW

    1. polish the literature review (book chapter 1), which I plan to do for the backlight paper anyway
    1. transform the format of the guide to id corals (book chapter 2) to a book chapter sensu stricto.

(B) PLAN FUTURE WORK

    1. Perhaps, the content that is most urgently needed is the reference collection (book chapter 3). This we should think about this ASAP in case we want/can do something before the end of January.
    1. write the description of a project aiming to develop the coralbook further. This should help us refine our thinking and will be a great way to attract interns; we could publish the project description at odealab.com or have it ready should any good candidate appear.

@melisacbl https://github.com/melisacbl: by next Monday, would you be able to advance with item 2 (transform...)? I will advance with item 1. Then, we could discuss our progress here and, if necessary, we could meet on skype.

Cheers, Mauro

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maurolepore commented 7 years ago

Hi @melisacbl,

Don't worry! I think two things are important:

  1. the information in the guide;
  2. that the coralbook is self contained, so the guide must live inside the coralbook project.

ONE is done, so let's not waste energy now formatting. TWO is not done, the guide lives in https://github.com/ccsig/ccsig.github.io but should live in odealab/coralbook.

Let's focus on 2. Let's not change the guide, but its location. This way, all the contents of the odealab/coralbook repo will get a release version and DOI, and therefore can be downloaded as a single .zip file.

For now, take a brake. I'll experiment with a good location and I will let you know.

Cheers, Mauro

maurolepore commented 7 years ago

Hi @melisacbl, Note I edited the numbers because they appeared confusingly.

odealab commented 7 years ago

Hi @melisacbl, and Aaron,

I released the development version of the coralbook 0.0.0.9001 ("owner"; in development). It has a DOI with Zenodo. I learned here about Zenodo. It is similar to figshare but seems to be better integrated with github.

Now, the front page of the coralbook repo displays this pretty badge: DOI. It is clickable and shows the latest DOI. Each release gets its own DOI.

Release notes are here.

Any thoughts let me know.

Cheers, @maurolepore