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Improvements in Rogue Scholar: tags and images

Improvements in Rogue Scholar: tags and images

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive adds important functionality to existing blogs, namely long-term archiving, full-text search, and DOI registration. In this week's update, I focussed on improving functionality that is specific for blogs and not really found regularly with other formats for scholarly content. Tags Tags are

The Rogue Scholar weekly newsletter launches on Wednesday

The Rogue Scholar weekly newsletter launches on Wednesday

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive is growing nicely, reaching more than 1,500 blog posts this week, and 5-10 new posts every week. You can subscribe to all the blogs you are interested in via an RSS Reader and use various strategies to find and read interesting content, but

Launching blog administration self-service in Rogue Scholar

Launching blog administration self-service in Rogue Scholar

This week I added blog administration self-service to the Rogue Scholar blog archive. This makes adding a blog to Rogue Scholar easier, faster, and cheaper. To start blog administration please create an account with Rogue Scholar. Use the "Sign In" Link in the upper right corner to sign

Rogue Scholar full-text search improvements

Rogue Scholar full-text search improvements

Two weeks ago I added a first version of full-text search to the Rogue Scholar blog archive. This was a good start, as blogs typically only have the timeline, tags, and metadata like titles and authors to help readers find relevant content. Today I launched an improved version of full-text

The Rogue Scholar archive reaches a milestone: 1000 searchable full-text science blog posts with DOIs

The Rogue Scholar archive reaches a milestone: 1000 searchable full-text science blog posts with DOIs

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched in April and I have been busy building out the core features of archiving the full-text of blog posts, establishing a full-text search, and registering DOIs and metadata for all posts. My announced goal was to complete this work by the end of

Starting to include references in DOI metadata for blog posts

Starting to include references in DOI metadata for blog posts

Two weeks ago I started registering DOIs for blog posts included in the Rogue Scholar blog archive. It is an automated process but involves a lot of manual checks. So far I have registered 231 blog posts from 20 different science blogs, and I hope to finish the DOI registrations

Does it compose?

Does it compose?

One question I have increasingly asked myself in the past few years. Meaning Can I run this open source software using Docker containers and a Docker Compose file? As the Docker project turned ten this spring, it has become standard practice to distribute open source software via Docker images and