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Martin Fenner

Dog food, persistent identifiers, and metadata

Dog food, persistent identifiers, and metadata

I am a big fan of dog food, and I wrote about this topic already seven years ago: Eating your own dog food is a slang term to describe that an organization should itself use the products and services it provides. One of the major projects I am working on

Feedback for science blog publishers

Feedback for science blog publishers

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched last week. Going forward the focus is on improving the service and adding more blogs. This includes giving blog authors feedback on how they can improve their RSS/Atom feeds – used by the Rogue Scholar to collect and archive the blog content. Feedback

The Rogue Scholar is now open for business

The Rogue Scholar is now open for business

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched with limited functionality on April 3rd. Interested science blogs can go to the sign-up page, provide some basic information via the sign-up form, and then will be added to the Rogue Scholar archive within two business days. To be included in the service,

The Rogue Scholar releases its first catalog of science blogs

The Rogue Scholar releases its first catalog of science blogs

The Rogue Scholar blog archive today released its first catalog of science blogs, a total of nineteen science blogs that signed up for the Rogue Scholar via submission form and met the inclusion criteria: * The blog is about science and in English or German (more languages will follow later, reach

Starting the Rogue Scholar OPML Feed

Starting the Rogue Scholar OPML Feed

While the launch of the Rogue Scholar blog archive is still a few months away (happening in the second quarter of this year), I want to give an update on the ongoing work. The Rogue Scholar blog archive will improve science blogs in important ways, including full-text search, DOIs and

Announcing commonmeta-ruby

Announcing commonmeta-ruby

Following recent announcements of the commonmeta standard for scholarly metadata and a Python package that converts several metadata formats (commonmeta-py), today I am happy to announce commonmeta-ruby, a Ruby gem and command-line tool to convert scholarly metadata using commonmeta as the internal format. commonmeta-ruby is based on the bolognese Ruby

How standards proliferate

Announcing Commonmeta

This week I launched Commonmeta, a new scholarly metadata standard described at https://commonmeta.org. Commonmeta is the result of working on conversion tools for scholarly metadata for many years. One conclusion early on was that these conversions are many-to-many, so it becomes much easier to have an internal format