Literate programming is a methodology that combines a programming language with a documentation language, thereby making programs more robust, more portable, more easily maintained, and arguably more fun to write than programs that are written only...
Earlier this week Björn Brembs wrote in a blog post (What Is The Difference Between Text, Data And Code?): To...
Last week I had a little discussion on Twitter about a great blog post by Zach Holman: Only 90s Web...
In this post I want to talk about some of the misunderstandings I frequently encounter when discussing markdown as a format for authoring scholarly documents. Scholars will always use Microsoft Word Microsoft Word is of course...
The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is a NISO standard that defines a set of XML elements and attributes for tagging journal articles. JATS is not only used for fulltext content at PubMed Central (and JATS...
In October I published an essay on Article-Level Metrics (ALM) in PLOS Biology (Fenner, 2013). The essay is a good...
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