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Rogue Scholar updates: documentation and comments

Rogue Scholar updates: documentation and comments

Shortly following an update earlier this week, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has updated or added two features today: better documentation and new comments. Documentation The Rogue Scholar documentation site was launched with the service but hasn't seen any updates in several months. Today I updated the platforms page,

Rogue Scholar updates: GUIDs and fields of science

Rogue Scholar updates: GUIDs and fields of science

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched two new features today: GUIDs (globally unique identifiers) and support for OECD Fields of Science and Technology. Globally unique identifiers (GUIDs) GUIDs are used to globally identify a blog post and are part of the RSS, Atom, and JSON Feed specifications. They can

The programmable blog

The programmable blog

Today I am relaunching the Syldavia Gazette blog on a new blogging platform, switching from Ghost to Quarto. This allows me to use Jupyter notebooks in the blog to help generate blog posts. The Syldavia Gazette (the other blog I manage besides the Front Matter blog) description says The Syldavia

Archiving Rogue Scholar blogs with the Internet Archive

Archiving Rogue Scholar blogs with the Internet Archive

Blogs participating in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive are now archived in the Internet Archive. Starting November 1st, Rogue Scholar is participating in the Internet Archive Archive-It service and all archived blogs can be found here. Archiving of all blog posts, associated HTML pages, and media will automatically happen

Rogue Scholar blogs are now searchable

Rogue Scholar blogs are now searchable

With an update launched yesterday, all blogs that participate in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive are now searchable by blog title, description, language, blogging platform, category (scientific field using the OECD Fields of Science and Technology), and ISSN. With the growing number of participating blogs (66 as of today)

Starting November, all Rogue Scholar blog posts will be archived by the Internet Archive

Starting November, all Rogue Scholar blog posts will be archived by the Internet Archive

Today I am happy to announce an important milestone for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. Starting November 1st, all blog posts from participating blogs will automatically be archived by the Internet Archive. Front Matter has signed a contract with Internet Archive to use their Archive-It service, and archiving will

The Rogue Scholar API now automatically indexes blog posts

The Rogue Scholar API now automatically indexes blog posts

The dedicated API for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched two weeks ago. The initial release supported fetching metadata and content from Rogue Scholar. Today this API was updated with important new functionality: parsing of science blog posts and storing the metadata and content in the Rogue Scholar. This