Hello stranger First of all, welcome to the first post of “Bayesically Speaking” (which, in case you haven’t noticed, is a word play between “Basically Speaking” and the (hopefully) well-known Bayes’ theorem), and although the web is offline at the time of writing this article, I find myself following the advice of all those people who encouraged me to trust my instinct and dare to do what I have always wanted: to be able to
One question I have increasingly asked myself in the past few years. Meaning As the Docker project turned ten this spring, it has become standard practice to distribute open source software via Docker images and to provide a Docker Compose file to run the software together with other dependencies. The Awesome Compose project has collected many examples, and all you need is a docker-compose.ymlfile and a recent installation of Docker, e.g.
Research software is a key part of most research today.
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 be added to the Rogue Scholar archive within two business days.
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 blog is about science and in English or German (more languages will follow later, reach out to me if you can help). The full-text content is available via RSS feed and distributed using a Creative Commons Attribution license (CC-BY). The
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 Ruby gem and command-line tool to convert scholarly metadata using commonmeta as the internal format.
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 conclusion early on was that these conversions are many-to-many, so it becomes much easier to have an internal format that is the intermediate step for these conversions.
Digital object identifiers (DOIs) and relevant metadata have been used for 20 years to help preserve the scholarly record by maintaining stable links to scholarly publications and other important scholarly resources, combined with long-term archiving by publishers and libraries. Lots and tools and services have been built around this infrastructure to make it easier for scholars to consume and contribute to this scholarly record.
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 elsewhere and is free to read whenever possible. The newsletter requires a paid subscription (available here), 5 €/month or 50 €/year with a thirty-day free trial and free subscriptions on request.
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.