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.

References are an essential element of scholarly publications.

Continuing the work on streamlining the DOI assignment for new blog posts in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, I discovered and fixed a major bug. Rogue Scholar DOIs strings are generated from a random number and include a checksum. It turns out that this checksum was wrong, affecting all Rogue Scholar posts generated with the commonmeta Go library between May 2024 and today.

Last week I wrote about the options we have for including DOIs in RSS feeds. This week is implementation time. Starting today, the Atom feed of this blog includes the DOI in the Atom<id> metadata field.

The Rogue Scholar science blog archive depends on RSS feeds to automatically collect metadata and content. Atom, JSON Feed, and JSON APIs (e.g. for the WordPress, Ghost, or Substack platforms) are closely related to RSS. The Rogue Scholar API understands these different formats and regularly (currently every 10 min) checks participating blogs for new or updated content and associated metadata.

December has seen good growth in the number of blogs participating in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, with 10 blogs joining in the last three weeks. Here you can find all Rogue Scholar blogs, sorted by join date, and the December 2024 additions are listed below.