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...
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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...
From Markdown to JATS XML in one Step
The Journal Article Tag Suite (JATS) is a NISO standard that defines a set of XML elements and attributes for tagging journal articles. JATS is not only used for fulltext content at PubMed Central (and JATS...
CSL is more than citation styles
According to the description on the Citation Style Language (CSL) website, CSL is an open XML-based language to describe the formatting of citations and bibliographies. We use reference managers such as Zotero, Mendeley, or Papers to...
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....