Some Thoughts on Beyond the Paper
Today the journal Nature has released a special on the Future of Publishing. It includes a lot of interesting reading, but I want to focus on the comment Beyond the Paper by Jason Priem. In the...
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Bye-bye Google Reader
Yesterday Google announced that they will shut down Google Reader July 1st. In a way this announcement didn’t surprise me, as my own use of RSS readers has gone down in favor of news readers...
Additional Markdown we need in Scholarly Texts
Following up from my post last week, below is a suggested list of features that should be supported in documents...
A Call for Scholarly Markdown
Markdown is a lightweight markup language, originally created by John Gruber for writing content for the web. Other popular lightweight markup languages are Textile and Mediawiki. Whereas Mediawiki markup is of course popular thanks to the...
ORCID has launched. What’s next?
Last week has been busy. I went to Berlin for the launch of the Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID)...
Announcing the ScienceCard Relaunch
Almost exactly a year ago (in the hackathon of the Science Online London 2011 conference) I started the ScienceCard project....