A very brief history of Scholarly HTML
The history of HTML begins 1989 at CERN, the European Laboratory for Particle Physics in Geneva. Tim Berners-Lee, Robert Cailliau...
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Discussing science with microformats
The best and quickest discussions of a scientific paper now sometimes happen in science blogs rather than in the peer-reviewed literature. Whereas we have a number of scholarly databases that track citations between papers, we don’...
The Trouble with Bibliographies
The bibliography of a scholarly paper is interesting and important reading material. You can see whether the authors have cited...
Discussing WordPress for Scientists
Regular readers of this blog know about my current interest in WordPress as a tool to create scholarly content. In the last few weeks I have released several WordPress plugins for reference management and to create...
Author Identifier Overview
Today I posted the pre-print of a paper titled Author Identifier Overview that I submitted to the journal Libreas. This is the abstract: Unique identifiers for scholarly authors are still not commonly used, but provide a...
WordPress for Reference Management
One of the more complicated aspects of scientific writing is reference management – an important limitation of online collaborative tools such as Google Docs. I have argued before that WordPress has the potential to become a great...