Altmetrics: first we need the for what? and only then the how? OK?
Altmetrics track the impact of scholarly works in the social web. Article-Level Metrics focuses on articles, but also looks at...
Meeting ReportA collection of 91 posts
Reports from conferences and workshops of interest to the scholarly community.
What Flavor is Scholarly Markdown?
One important outcome of the recent Markdown for Science workshop was an overall agreement that all the different implementations (or flavors) of markdown that currently exist are a big problem for the adoption of Scholarly Markdown...
What is Scholarly Markdown?
One of the important discussions taking place at the Markdown for Science workshop last weekend was about the definition of...
Metrics and attribution: my thoughts for the panel at the ORCID-Dryad symposium on research attribution
This Thursday I take part in a panel discussion at the Joint ORCID – Dryad Symposium on Research Attribution. Together with...
Announcing Markdown for Science Workshop on June 8th
On Saturday, June 8th – exactly a month from today – the PLOS San Francisco offices will host a workshop/hackathon about using markdown for science. A lot of people are experimenting with markdown for authoring scientific articles...
The Price of Innovation – my Thoughts for Beyond the PDF
The Beyond the PDF Conference is currently taking place in Amsterdam. Unfortunately, I am unable to attend in person this...