My 2023 year in review

2023 continued to pose the all-important question: just how many health disasters can I endure? This year, I started haemodialysis as my kidneys entered the extremely worryingly named "end-stage renal failure". This turns out to be a very long-term prospect, as I can't have a transplant owing both to BK viremia (which caused the kidney damage in the first place) and a conflict with the immunosuppression that treats my rheumatoid arthritis. Without the latter under control, life is, quite seriously, unbearable.

But enough of that grimness. I also got quite a lot done this year!

Crossref

• Built the Labs API and released its source code
• Conducted research into, and wrote a peer-reviewed article about, the digital preservation status of 7m articles
• Built a deposit proxy system that allows for the modelling and retrieval of new metadata
• Began work on Project Op Cit; a digital preservation system
• Built a set of tools – CLAWS – for generic AWS operations
• Built a wrapper for distributed computation using Coiled and Dask
• Built an observability library called Longsight
• Integrated the Retraction Watch database in the Labs API
• Rebuilt/rewrote the Retraction Watch database system
• Built a Large Language Model affiliation parser
• Built a JSON-L packer for the Crossref annual data dump
• Built (most of) a SQLite packer for the Crossref annual data dump
• Gave 8 plenary/keynote talks

Academic Research

Books and Translations

2024Eve, Martin Paul, Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2024)

2023 Eve, Martin Paul, 数字人文与文学研究 (The Digital Humanities and Literary Studies) (Beijing: 牛津大学出版社 (Oxford University Press, China), 2023)

  Eve, Martin Paul, Una Historia De Las Contraseñas (Password) (Argentina: Ediciones Godot, 2023)

Journal Articles

2023 Eve, Martin Paul, 'Impossible Chess, Close Reading, and Inattention as Disability in Percival Everett's Telephone', Orbit: A Journal of American Literature, 11.1 (2023) [Download]

  Eve, Martin Paul, 'Digital Scholarly Journals Are Poorly Preserved: A Study of 7 Million Articles', Journal of Librarianship and Scholarly Communication, 2023

Book Chapters

2024 Eve, Martin Paul, 'Shadow Libraries and Pirate Infrastructures', in Critical Infrastructure Studies & Digital Humanities, ed. by Alan Liu, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies (University of Minnesota Press, 2024)

  Eve, Martin Paul, 'The Essay in the Career of the Contemporary English Novelist', in The Cambridge History of the British Essay, ed. by Denise Gigante and Jason Childs (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024)

2023 Eve, Martin Paul, '"The Guy Who Bangs on about Open Access"', in We So Loved Open Access, ed. by Leila Posenato Garcia Garcia and Jan Velterop (SciELO, 2023) [Download]

My 2023 year in review was originally published by Martin Paul Eve at eve.gd: Martin Paul Eve on December 11, 2023.