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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

Improving Rogue Scholar metadata conversions

Improving Rogue Scholar metadata conversions

Last week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive added export of blog post content in various formats (Markdown, ePub, PDF, JATS XML). This week Rogue Scholar is improving the existing metadata export, and adding metadata export in Schema.org JSON-LD format. Until now Rogue Scholar metadata export depended on DOI

Improved PDF-formatted Rogue Scholar blog posts

Improved PDF-formatted Rogue Scholar blog posts

On Monday the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched the export of blog posts in PDF and other formats. Over the last few days I have been busy improving the PDF output, and today I am releasing a new version, available for all the more than 13K science blog posts

Every Rogue Scholar blog post now also available in JATS XML format

Every Rogue Scholar blog post now also available in JATS XML format

On Monday the Rogue Scholar science blog archive added support for exporting the blog posts in various formats: markdown, ePub, and PDF. Today I am adding another export format: JATS XML, the standard format for scholarly articles. JATS is again automatically generated with the Pandoc universal document converter, with some