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Launching blog administration self-service in Rogue Scholar

Launching blog administration self-service in Rogue Scholar

This week I added blog administration self-service to the Rogue Scholar blog archive. This makes adding a blog to Rogue Scholar easier, faster, and cheaper. To start blog administration please create an account with Rogue Scholar. Use the "Sign In" Link in the upper right corner to sign

Rogue Scholar full-text search improvements

Rogue Scholar full-text search improvements

Two weeks ago I added a first version of full-text search to the Rogue Scholar blog archive. This was a good start, as blogs typically only have the timeline, tags, and metadata like titles and authors to help readers find relevant content. Today I launched an improved version of full-text

The Rogue Scholar archive reaches a milestone: 1000 searchable full-text science blog posts with DOIs

The Rogue Scholar archive reaches a milestone: 1000 searchable full-text science blog posts with DOIs

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched in April and I have been busy building out the core features of archiving the full-text of blog posts, establishing a full-text search, and registering DOIs and metadata for all posts. My announced goal was to complete this work by the end of

Full-text search added to the Rogue Scholar science blog archive

Full-text search added to the Rogue Scholar science blog archive

In January I started the Rogue Scholar blog archive with the slogan "science blogging on steroids", promising to enhance science blogs in important ways. Earlier this month I began DOI registrations for blog posts, and I am well on track to complete this for the included 35 blogs

Starting to include references in DOI metadata for blog posts

Starting to include references in DOI metadata for blog posts

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

Starting to register DOIs for all blog posts included in the Rogue Scholar

Starting to register DOIs for all blog posts included in the Rogue Scholar

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. * A way to track the DOIs that have

Does it compose?

Does it compose?

One question I have increasingly asked myself in the past few years. Meaning Can I run this open source software using Docker containers and a Docker Compose file? As the Docker project turned ten this spring, it has become standard practice to distribute open source software via Docker images and