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Does it compose?
One question I have increasingly asked myself in the past few years. Meaning Can I run this open source software using Docker containers and a Docker Compose file?As the Docker project turned ten this...
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Dog food, persistent identifiers, and metadata
I am a big fan of dog food, and I wrote about this topic already seven years ago:Eating your own dog food is a slang term to describe that an organization should itself use the products and services it...
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Feedback for science blog publishers
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched last week. Going forward the focus is on improving the service and adding more blogs. This includes giving blog authors feedback on how they can improve their...
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The Rogue Scholar is now open for business
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched with limited functionality on April 3rd. Interested science blogs can go to the sign-up page, provide some basic information via the sign-up form, and then will...
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The Rogue Scholar releases its first catalog of science blogs
The Rogue Scholar blog archive today released its first catalog of science blogs, a total of nineteen science blogs that signed up for the Rogue Scholar via submission form and met the inclusion criteria: The...
Starting the Rogue Scholar OPML Feed
While the launch of the Rogue Scholar blog archive is still a few months away (happening in the second quarter of this year), I want to give an update on the ongoing work.The Rogue Scholar blog archive will...
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Announcing commonmeta-ruby
Following recent announcements of the commonmeta standard for scholarly metadata and a Python package that converts several metadata formats (commonmeta-py), today I am happy to announce commonmeta-ruby, a...
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Announcing Commonmeta
This week I launched Commonmeta, a new scholarly metadata standard described at https://commonmeta.org. Commonmeta is the result of working on conversion tools for scholarly metadata for many years. One...
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Talking about Talbot
Talbot is a Python package I started working on at the end of 2022 and plan to release to the Python Package Index (PyPi) in March. Talbot converts scholarly metadata in various formats, including Crossref,...
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Guidelines for Scholarly Blogs
These guidelines are recommendations for authors of scholarly blogs to help with long-term archiving, discoverability, and citation of blog content.They are modeled after the publication A Data Citation...
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Launching the Front Matter Gazette
On Wednesday this week I am launching the Front Matter Gazette, a weekly newsletter that highlights exciting science stories from around the web. The linked content highlighted in the newsletter is published...
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Do we need to fix science blogs?
Science blogs have been around for at least 20 years and have become an important part of science communication. So are there any fundamental issues that need fixing?Barriers to EntryBlogging platforms are...
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RSS, Atom, JSON Feed
As I discussed in a recent post, RSS is an essential building block for the upcoming Rogue Scholar Scholarly Blog Archive. RSS makes it easy to import blog posts (both metadata and content) automatically and...
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Sign up for the science blog archive waitlist
The science blog archive that I have started to work on (see previous posts) finally has a name: the Rogue Scholar. I picked this name because I liked the description in the Urban Dictionary.A person with...
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Building Blocks for a Scholarly Blog Archive
Another follow-up post, extending three earlier posts (see references), on the Scholarly Blog Archive that Front Matter is building and that I plan to launch in the first half of 2023. I have been thinking...