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Blog posts about the Rogue Scholar science blog archive

Commonmeta grows up

Commonmeta grows up

The Commonmeta standard for scholarly metadata continues towards version 1.0 with some important changes in version v0.14, released this week. And metadata for all DOIs from Crossref and DataCite can now be retrieved in commonmeta format via a new web service. The major changes in the commonmeta v0.

Rogue Scholar is learning a new language

Rogue Scholar is learning a new language

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive is built with Open Source software, starting with Javascript in June 2023 and adding an API written in Python in October 2023. This week I am releasing the first version of commonmeta written in Go to simplify the Rogue Scholar backend. Commonmeta is the

Rogue Scholar references learn new tricks

Rogue Scholar references learn new tricks

This week the references included in currently 1,123 Rogue Scholar blog posts have become much more powerful, as they now include the full set of scholarly metadata. These metadata are displayed in the Rogue Scholar web pages and can be fetched via an open API. One of my favorite

Simplifying Rogue Scholar Infrastructure

Simplifying Rogue Scholar Infrastructure

From the start last year one important goal for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive was to make it easy to use for blog authors and readers. Today I want to focus on another aspect: keep it simple to run Rogue Scholar infrastructure. To address that goal I started development

Tracking references of Rogue Scholar blog posts

Tracking references of Rogue Scholar blog posts

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has been collecting the references of blog posts since June 2023, and has registered Crossref DOIs for 1,114 blog posts with references as of today. As RSS feeds – which Rogue Scholar uses to fetch content and metadata – have not standardized how metadata for

Rogue Scholar reaches another milestone with 15,000 science blog posts

Rogue Scholar reaches another milestone with 15,000 science blog posts

Last week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive reached another milestone with 15,000 (15,332 as of today) science blog posts. These posts come from 86 participating blogs with 69% written in English and 28% in German. The most common subject areas are Law with 22%, Computer and Information

Rogue Scholar launches project plan for grant-funded projects

Rogue Scholar launches project plan for grant-funded projects

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive is launching a new pricing plan this week: Project. Blogs that participate in the Project plan get all the benefits of the existing Team plan – unlimited blog posts with DOI registration, full-text search, and long-term archiving with the Internet Archive – for a one-time fee