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Going beyond GitHub Actions for Rogue Scholar

Going beyond GitHub Actions for Rogue Scholar

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar depends heavily on GitHub Actions. They are used to trigger content and metadata extraction of new blog posts and to register DOIs for these posts with Crossref. More recently they have also been used to push this content and metadata to the new InvenioRDM-based

My contribution to Open Access Week 2024

My contribution to Open Access Week 2024

From October 21 to 27 is International Open Access Week 2024, and this blog post summarizes my contribution for 2024. Open Access Week 2024 will continue the call to put “Community over Commercialization” and prioritize approaches to open scholarship that serve the best interests of the public and the academic

The Rogue Scholar migration to InvenioRDM is taking shape

The Rogue Scholar migration to InvenioRDM is taking shape

Last week I integrated the InvenioRDM API with the Rogue Scholar API, enabling the automated export of metadata to the InvenioRDM platform. As of today, 5,046 (28.8%) blog posts have been exported to InvenioRDM and can be explored via UI and API, The export currently includes most metadata,

Rogue Scholar references learn new tricks

Rogue Scholar references learn new tricks

This week the references included in currently 1,123 Rogue Scholar blog posts have become much more powerful, as they now include the full set of scholarly metadata. These metadata are displayed in the Rogue Scholar web pages and can be fetched via an open API. One of my favorite

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