Infrastructure Tips for the Non-Profit Startup
When I started as DataCite Technical Director four months ago, my first post (Fenner, 2015) on this blog was about...
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Overcoming Development Pain
Today DataCite received an email from a user alerting us that there are some small inconsistencies with our recommended data...
Data-Driven Development
This week I start as the new DataCite Technical Director. While I get up to speed with existing DataCite services...
Persistent Identifiers and URLs
Just like the rest of the internet, much of our scholarly infrastructure is built around the Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP), increasingly HTTPS for security, and soon HTTP/2 for better performance. In this infrastructure Universal Resource...
Blogging Beyond Jekyll
This blog has been on four different platforms since starting in 2007: a custom blogging engine and then Movable Type...
First analysis of software metrics
Last week I wrote about software.lagotto.io, an instance of the lagotto open source software collecting metrics for the...