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Minimal requirements for a science blog

Minimal requirements for a science blog

Last Friday I attended a workshop by the Infra Wiss Blogs project in Berlin. Infra Wiss Blogs is a project funded by the German Research Foundation and started in July 2024 with the following goal: Infra Wiss Blogs aims to support blogging researchers and information infrastructure institutions in identifying potential

Rogue Scholar enables sign-in with ORCID

Rogue Scholar enables sign-in with ORCID

Starting this week, users of the science blog archive Rogue Scholar can sign in into the service using their ORCID credentials. This is in addition to the local Rogue Scholar accounts that continue to be available, and that can be linked with the ORCID account: This functionality is part of

Improving Rogue Scholar references

Improving Rogue Scholar references

The latest update of the Rogue Scholar science blog archive this week improves the finding and tracking of science blog post references, both on the website and in the API. This update again takes advantage of functionality of the InvenioRDM repository platform, with some minor tweaks. InvenioRDM is based on

Commonmeta is learning new tricks

Commonmeta is learning new tricks

Last week I reported that the commonmeta Go library can now directly register metadata with Crossref and InvenioRDM repositories. With version v0.6.10 released today, I further improved this functionality, making commonmeta an excellent tool for adding existing scholarly metadata to any InvenioRDM instance for testing or showcasing the

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,