Rogue Scholar Newsletter June 2025

Martin Fenner -

This is the June issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.

Blogs added to Rogue Scholar

Two blogs were added in June. Welcome everybody! This brings the number of participating blogs to 150, a big milestone for Rogue Scholar.

carrier-bag.net

Arts, English.
https://carrier-bag.net/

ACM SIGCSE Journal Club

Better teaching and learning, one paper at a time...
Computer and information sciences, English
https://sigcse.cs.manchester.ac.uk/

Technical Updates

Starting June 2nd, Rogue Scholar experienced major issues with its search index that were finally resolved on June 18. The underlying cause was a failed update of the InvenioRDM software, as reported here. No data were lost, but some Rogue Scholar functionality, e.g. listing all posts by a given blog, was temporarily unavailable.

One consequence was to set up additional Rogue Scholar infrastructure for more extensive testing of major new software versions. The new Rogue Scholar staging server is available at staging.rogue-scholar.org, and the underlying technology (the Kamal tool) is described here. Kamal makes deploying Rogue Scholar simpler and cheaper, and will be used for the migration to the next major InvenioRDM release (v13 v13.0.0rc3 was published today) over the coming weeks.

Community Update

In collaboration with the Infra Wiss Blogs project, Rogue Scholar started a webinar series on best practices for science blogs. The first webinar (in German) on June 11 focused on WordPress, with participation by the DINI and CSTOnline blogs. The webinar is summarized here, and the presentation slides have also been made available.

On June 24 the Crossref Blog published a blog post about the roles Crossref sees for blogs in the scholarly ecosystem, and the work that Crossref has done with Rogue Scholar to assign DOIs to posts in the Crossref blog, and to archive the content with Rogue Scholar and the Internet Archive.

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References

  1. Fenner, M. (2025, June 6). Rogue Scholar upgrade pains. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/9nam9-w9k29
  2. Fenner, M. (2025, June 27). Kamal deploys InvenioRDM Starter to production. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/m7gng-jmm19
  3. Höfting, J., Ochsner, C., & Pampel, H. (2025, May 17). Zusammenfassung: Infra Wiss Blogs Webinar zu Rogue Scholar. Infra Wiss Blogs. https://doi.org/10.59350/h7rh7-jb575
  4. Stoll, L., Vale, P., & Clark, R. M. (2025, June 24). Scholarly blogs and their place in the research nexus. Crossref Blog. https://doi.org/10.64000/552ec-b8g03