Why should we work where we live?
At the SciFoo Camp this weekend Erin McKiernan and I moderated an unconference session on the topic Why should we...
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Persistent Identifiers and URLs
Just like the rest of the internet, much of our scholarly infrastructure is built around the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), increasingly HTTPS for security, and soon HTTP/2 for better performance. In this infrastructure Universal Resource...
Human-readable and machine-readable Persistent Identifiers
Yesterday Julie McMurry and co-authors published a preprint 10 Simple rules for design, provision, and reuse of persistent identifiers for life science data. This is an important paper trying to address a fundamental problem: how can...
Introducing the Scholarly Markdown Bundle
Using Markdown to author scholarly documents is an attractive alternative to the standard authoring tools Microsoft Word and LaTeX. The feeling shared by many is that Scholarly Markdown is 80% there, and that more effort is...
Blogging Beyond Jekyll
This blog has been on four different platforms since starting in 2007: a custom blogging engine and then Movable Type...
Metadata in Microsoft Word documents
Metadata such as author, title, journal or persistent identifier are essential for scholarly documents, and some of us are spending...