The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has started to automatically add all blog posts to the subject area community of the blog. Today I am adding another automatic community workflow: if a blog post uses tags or categories that exist as Rogue Scholar topic communities, the post is automatically added to these communities.

Popular Rogue Scholar topic communities include:

  • Open Access
  • Open Data
  • Open Source
  • Open Infrastructure
  • Open Educational Resources
  • Events
  • Interviews
  • Book Review
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Rogue Scholar

The Rogue Scholar community collects blog posts about Rogue Scholar, mostly from this blog and other participating blogs. Artificial Intelligence obviously is currently a hot topic and the community also includes critical posts. Events (announcements and reports from conferences, presentations, etc.), interviews, and book review are topics that are an ideal fit for blog posts and have been for a long time.

For a blog post to automatically be included in a community, the tag or category should match the community name. Capitalization, spaces, or hyphens don't matter, so Open Access, open-access, and openaccess are all fine.

Of course you can also manually suggest one of your blog posts for topic community addition. For this you need a Rogue Scholar account with moderator permissions for your blog.

There are currently 34 topic communities. If you wish to suggest a community, please reach out via email or Slack. The process of automatically adding blog posts to topic communities is currently underway, together with adding the posts to the subject area communities. I hope to wrap up the work by the end of February.

I don't see the need to harmonize all tags and categories across blogs participating in Rogue Scholar. Sometimes it makes sense to collect related posts in a community, but it is of course fine to use tags and categories that only make sense for your particular blog.

References

Fenner, M. (2025, February 17). Rogue Scholar starts subject area communities. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.53731/9zb20-k8z13

Taylor, M. (2025, February 14). If you believe in “Artificial Intelligence”, take five minutes to ask it about stuff you know well. Sauropod Vertebra Picture of the Week. https://doi.org/10.59350/e0s96-xyg36