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Martin Fenner

Launching the Front Matter Gazette

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 elsewhere and is free to read whenever possible. The newsletter requires a paid subscription (available here), 5 €/month

Do we need to fix science blogs?

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 Entry Blogging platforms are mature at this point, and the technology is not imposing barriers to entry for most people.

RSS, Atom, JSON Feed

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 is supported by all blogging platforms. This kind of automation is critical to keep the

Sign up for the science blog archive waitlist

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 extensive knowledge pertaining to various subject matters that extends beyond formal education. This

James Brown

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 about the building blocks that make this blog archive work: Diamond Open Access Diamond open

Launching the Front Matter Roadmap

Launching the Front Matter Roadmap

In a blog post last week I talked about what I am currently working on, namely a) helping to make it easier (and safer) to run the InvenioRDM digital repository software in Docker container infrastructure, and b) working on converting the bolognese metadata conversion Ruby gem to Python to enhance

Building an archive for scholarly blog posts

Building an archive for scholarly blog posts

This blog post is a follow-up to a post in September (Fenner 2022a), where I announced that I had started working on an archive for scholarly blog posts based on the InvenioRDM open-source repository software. In the last two months, I focussed on two activities – besides lots of physical therapy