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Martin Fenner

Announcing Rogue Scholar Preview

Announcing Rogue Scholar Preview

Today the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched a new feature: Rogue Scholar Preview. This new functionality enables the import of new science blogs into the preview version of the production service, located at https://preview.rogue-scholar.org. This allows users to see how their blog posts will look like

Introducing the Rogue Scholar Advisory Board

Introducing the Rogue Scholar Advisory Board

In January 2024 the new Rogue Scholar Advisory Board had its first meeting. It consists of six people with diverse expertise in scholarly blogging. Advisory Board members come from different scholarly disciplines and geographic regions, write in several languages besides English, and have different levels of technical expertise. The Advisory

New version of commonmeta-py library for scholarly metadata

New version of commonmeta-py library for scholarly metadata

Yesterday I released version 0.13 of the commonmeta-py library on PyPi. The major new feature is a command-line interface for all metadata conversions, and the metadata validation with the Commonmeta JSON Schema has finally been fixed. The command-line interface takes any supported persistent identifier or file as input, and

An update on Rogue Scholar in the fediverse

An update on Rogue Scholar in the fediverse

The Rogue Scholar science blogging archive joined the fediverse in August of last year. This week I want to report on an updated strategy for Rogue Scholar, and what it means for science blogs participating in Rogue Scholar. The fediverse is a collection of community-owned, ad-free, decentralised, and privacy-centric social

Commonmeta adds DataCite schema 4.5 support

Commonmeta adds DataCite schema 4.5 support

On Wednesday DataCite released version 4.5 of the DataCite metadata schema. Today I released updated versions of the commonmeta Ruby and Python libraries that fully support the new schema. You can install them via Rubygems and PyPI, respectively. DataCite schema 4.5 is a minor update, the first schema

Adding automated end-to-end testing to Rogue Scholar

Adding automated end-to-end testing to Rogue Scholar

Last week I reported a small change to the Rogue Scholar science blog submission form. By asking for the homepage URL of the blog instead of the feed URL, I hope to make it easier for users to register their blog. At the same time, I fixed a bug in

Making it easier to register a science blog with Rogue Scholar

Making it easier to register a science blog with Rogue Scholar

Yesterday I had to fix a bug in the Rogue Scholar registration form (a software regression that happened over the holidays related to database row level security). This was a reminder that registering a science blog with the Rogue Scholar science blog archive should be quick and painless. Today I