multiple websites with documentation

[Jirka]

Good morning,
I found a few websites which are related to ImageJ/Fiji especially its
plugins:

* http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu
* http://fiji.sc
* http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij
and maybe others

May I ask you for a brief explanation what is the difference among them? I
d like to publish our plugin and in future we would extend it and add some
other functionality. It would be little bit difficult to keep updated all
of them so I was thinking about chose only one and make reference on in
from all others but which one to chose?

Thanks, Jirka
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[Thomas Boudier]

Hi,

Some quick explanations :

* http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu
community site for ImageJ for documentation and also plugins, anyone can
create a new page to put his plugin, and comment others pages.

* http://fiji.sc
fiji is a distribution of ImageJ including many plugins already nicely
packaged, you can register and then put your plugin, either as source
via git or jars (as personal pages)

* http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij
first and "legacy" website for ImageJ, you need to ask Wayne to add a
new page.

hope this helps,

best,

Thomas


Le 28/11/2013 16:57, Jiří Borovec a écrit :

> Good morning,
> I found a few websites which are related to ImageJ/Fiji especially its
> plugins:
>
> * http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu
> * http://fiji.sc
> * http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij
> and maybe others
>
> May I ask you for a brief explanation what is the difference among them? I
> d like to publish our plugin and in future we would extend it and add some
> other functionality. It would be little bit difficult to keep updated all
> of them so I was thinking about chose only one and make reference on in
> from all others but which one to chose?
>
> Thanks, Jirka
>

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[dscho]

Hi Jirka,

On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Jiří Borovec wrote:

> I found a few websites which are related to ImageJ/Fiji especially its
> plugins:
>
> * http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu
> * http://fiji.sc
> * http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij
> and maybe others

In historical order, they are:

http://imagej.nih.gov/ij/ (formerly http://rsb.info.nih.gov/ij/) with an
easy-to-remember shortcut http://imagej.net/

        This is the main web site of ImageJ 1.x, maintained exclusively by
        Wayne Rasband. There is a mirror at http://mirror.imagej.net/ and
        a personal fallback site for Wayne at http://wsr.imagej.net (e.g.
        when the next government shutdown prevents updates to the main web
        site)

http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/

        The ImageJ documentation Wiki, started by Andreas Jahnen,
        Christian Moll and others in the wake of the first ImageJ
        conference in 2006. Its express purpose is for plugin authors to
        have a space where they can upload their plugins, documentation
        and new versions.

http://fiji.sc/

        Just in time for the second ImageJ conference in 2008, Fiji was
        released as a distribution of ImageJ, aiming to make it easy for
        "mere" life scientists to install ImageJ with a bunch of useful
        plugins, without having to go through many troubles to seek out
        the newest versions of the different plugins. Fiji's most popular
        feature is -- by far -- the updater, making it hassle-free to stay
        up-to-date. The Fiji Wiki was intended to augment the other two
        web sites, in particular the documentation Wiki: Some plugin
        authors prefer to have full control over "their" plugin
        description (which the ImageJ documentation wiki allows,
        preventing everybody but the initial author to make changes to
        pages) while others like to start a page, relying on other,
        interested scientists, to fill in the blanks and correct typos
        (this is the way the Fiji Wiki is set up).

There is another website you did not mention:
http://developer.imagej.net/. It is the home of ImageJ 2.x (the next
generation of ImageJ whose architecture is designed to address all the
lessons learned from the first generation) and not intended to document
any plugins except the very core ones.

> May I ask you for a brief explanation what is the difference among them?
> I d like to publish our plugin and in future we would extend it and add
> some other functionality. It would be little bit difficult to keep
> updated all of them so I was thinking about chose only one and make
> reference on in from all others but which one to chose?

As I mentioned above, the differences are basically in who can edit what.
If you are comfortable with sending Wayne a mail everytime you need to
update your plugin, you should aim for http://imagej.net/. If you rather
want to maintain your download page yourself, go to
http://imagejdocu.tudor.lu/. If you want to maintain your download page,
but also encourage users to document your plugin, go to http://fiji.sc/.

Oh, and make certain -- for users' convenience -- to make a personal
update site: http://fiji.sc/Personal_Update_Sites. Note: while the updater
is documented on the Fiji Wiki, it is really the ImageJ updater now: you
can even install it in a plain ImageJ without any additional plugins
installed (i.e. bare-bones ij.jar; the way hard-core oldtimers like to do
things), by calling File>Import>URL... and providing the URL
http://update.imagej.net/bootstrap.js

Ciao,
Dscho

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