Next week the InvenioRDM community will meet in Hamburg for five days to discuss the open source repository platform. Front Matter has been part of the InvenioRDM community since August 2021, and Rogue Scholar relaunched on the InvenioRDM platform in October 2024. The last workshop of the InvenioRDM partners took place in March 2024 in Münster, so this is the first meetup where I am running a production instance of InvenioRDM.

This blog has joined the Fediverse as @index@blog.front-matter.io, thanks to a major beta update of the underlying Ghost blogging platform. Read about Activitypub support in Ghost here.

The Rogue Scholar dashboard is taking shape. The statistics page has been renamed to dashboard , still linked from the Rogue Scholar footer. More work has been done to expose key indicators of the science blog archive, focussing on OpenSearch Search Facets.

This is the second issue of the new monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. The big news this month is Rogue Scholar reaching another major milestone: 25,000 archived science blog posts!

The statistics page for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive was relaunched today, as Rogue Scholar reaches the major milestone of 25,000 archived science blog posts later this week, and the work on updating all blog posts to content type blog post and including each of them in a subject area community has been concluded.Blog Posts by Year This page is new and shows the number of blog posts by year.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has started to automatically add all blog posts to the subject area community of the blog. Today I am adding another automatic community workflow: if a blog post uses tags or categories that exist as Rogue Scholar topic communities, the post is automatically added to these communities.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has started to automatically add all blog posts to the subject area community of the blog. Rogue Scholar uses the 48 OECD Fields of Science and Technology subject areas since September 2023 and blog authors pick a subject area when they join Rogue Scholar.

In a few weeks, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive will reach the milestone of 25,000 archived science blog posts, each with a DOI and metadata and searchable via full-text search. With this number of blog posts, it is now time to start using a dedicated content type, and last week Rogue Scholar started the migration to the B logPost content type.

Starting in February, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive is showing the citations (publications that cite the blog post) of science blog posts it archives.

This is the first issue of a new monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter will report on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Seven blogs were added in January.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive continues to grow, with seven new blogs added this month and more than 24,000 archived blog posts. Luckily, onboarding new blogs is mostly automated, with the Rogue Scholar API handling the blog setup and blog post ingestion from RSS feeds. Some questions frequently come up and I try to improve the Rogue Scholar documentation to address them.