Two weeks ago I started registering DOIs for blog posts included in the Rogue Scholar blog archive. It is an automated process but involves a lot of manual checks. So far I have registered 231 blog posts from 20 different science blogs, and I hope to finish the DOI registrations by the end of the month.
Ruby gem and command-line utility for conversion of DOI metadata from and to different metadata formats, including schema.org. Fork of version 1.19.12 of the bolognese gem.
The Rogue Scholar archive of scholarly blogs has grown to 34 blogs with about 420 blog posts. In order to implement DOI registration for these blog posts, I needed two things: Content and metadata, ideally without requiring blogs to implement anything special.
Geoff Bilder from CrossRef likes to show the following slide at scholarly conferences, and then asks the audience what they see: Most of us probably immediately recognize this document as a scholarly article.
Last Friday the OpenCitations blog published a guest post by Alberto Martín-Martín that describes the coverage by COCI and other open citation data compared to subscription citation indexes. This is an important blog post, as it changes how we think about citations and open metrics.