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Citeproc YAML for bibliographies

Citeproc YAML for bibliographies

The standard local file formats for bibliographic data are probably bibtex and RIS. They have been around for a long time, and are supported by all reference managers and many other tools and services. Unfortunately these formats are far from perfect: * neither bibtex nor RIS use a web-friendly data interchange

RSS Feeds for Scholarly Authors

Open Researcher & Contributor ID (ORCID) provides a persistent identifier for researchers and lets them claim their research outputs in the ORCID Registry. I have been involved with ORCID since early 2010 and I am happy to see that nine months after launch 200,000 researchers have signed up for

Auto generating links to data and resources

Auto generating links to data and resources

A few weeks ago Kafkas et al. (2013) published a paper looking at current patterns of how datasets o biological databases are cited in research articles, based on an analysis of the full text Open Access articles available from Europe PMC. They identified data citations by: 1. Accession numbers available

Metadata in Scholarly Markdown

Scholarly documents often need metadata that describe them: typically author(s), title and location (DOI or URL), but possibly many other things. For some metadata it makes sense to store them in the document text, e.g. as is typically done for citations. The problem is that this can make

Nine simple ways to make it easier to (re)use your data

This paper in markdown format was written by Ethan White et al. The markdown file and the associated bibliogaphy and figure files are available from the Github repository of the paper. I used this version, an earlier version was published as PeerJ Preprint. Special thanks to Ethan White for allowing

Citations in Markdown Part 3

After the post last week and the crazy discussion that followed I would understand that you feel you have heard enough about citations in markdown. But I had the feeling last week that something was still missing, and I have done some more thinking. What we have so far: * Pandoc

Citations in Scholarly Markdown

In the comments on Monday’s blog post about the Markdown for Science workshop, Carl Boettiger had some good arguments against the proposal for how to do citations that we came up with during the workshop. As this is a complex topic, I decided to write this blog post. Citations