This is the January 2026 issue of the 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 Rogue Scholar science blog archive has improved the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex, and combining this with the widely used OECD Fields of Science.
Like most digital infrastructure nowadays, Rogue Scholar and the underlying digital repository platform InvenioRDM are built and deployed using Docker containers. There are many ways to orchestrate (manage) Docker containers; two common options are Docker Compose for local development and Kubernetes for production infrastructure.
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive consolidated authentication into a single Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, powered by a self-hosted Keycloak instance, by the end of last year. This week, this service started supporting passwordless authentication via magic links.
This is the December 2025 issue of the 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.
Starting this week, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive has consolidated authentication into a single Identity and Access Management (IAM) service, powered by a self-hosted Keycloak instance at https://auth.front-matter.de.
The science blog archive Rogue Scholar is becoming a German non-profit membership organization in 2026. This will help with the governance and sustainability of Rogue Scholar. But what can be the incentives to become a Rogue Scholar member, and under what conditions?
This is the November issue of the 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. Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Two blogs were added in November. Welcome!
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
The Rogue Scholar science blog archive started work on improving the subject classification of blog posts, using an open approach to subject classification developed by CWTS and OpenAlex.
Yesterday I renamed the Front Matter blog to blog.front-matter.de, i.e. changing the top-level domain from .io to .de. I did this for two reasons: * The internet country code top-level domain .io has a complicated history, and I wanted to migrate away from it for some time.