Announcing Data-Level Metrics in DataCite Labs
Last week Jennifer Lin shared information on the Making Data Count (MDC) project on this blog. MDC is a project...
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Using YAML Frontmatter with CSV
CSV (comma-separated values) is a popular file format for data. It is popular because it is very simple: CSV is text-based and any application that can open text files can read or write CSV. This makes...
Digging into Metadata using R
In the first post of this new blog a few weeks ago I talked about Data-Driven Development, and that service...
Component DOIs Revisited
Four years ago I wrote a blog post about component DOIs. It is time to revisit the topic, in particular since our approach to citing data associated with a publication has changed since 2011. Component DOIs...
Human-readable and machine-readable Persistent Identifiers
Yesterday Julie McMurry and co-authors published a preprint 10 Simple rules for design, provision, and reuse of persistent identifiers for life science data. This is an important paper trying to address a fundamental problem: how can...
CommonMark and the Future of Scholarly Markdown
One of the important outcomes of the Markdown for Science workshop that took place in June 2013 was a decision...