I am currently preparing for the courses I teach in term 2 and one of my objectives this year is to create course websites ¹ with course material that the students can access but that can also be made available publicly in the hope that they might be useful to someone ² . It is also an opportunity to move away from a workflow that discourages improvement and makes editing material cumbersome.

TL;DR. Metadata Manager will be retired at the end of 2025.

We are pleased to announce the publication of our third guide from the BMFTR-funded (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space) project “Professionalisierung der Open-Access-Repositorien-Infrastruktur in Deutschland (Pro OAR DE)”: “Zweitveröffentlichung: Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access-Repositorien” (available in German only). Matthias, L. Pampel, H., Khamis, C. O. &

A shorter version of this blog post in Dutch has been published earlier on the website of Nederlandse UNESCO Commissie.

Die Perspektiven von Geflüchteten sind in Öffentlichkeit und Politik stark unterrepräsentiert – auch und vor allem beim Thema Asyl- und Flüchtlingspolitik. Das hat auch die Debatte um den Rückblick auf 10 Jahre „langer Sommer der Migration“ nicht geändert.

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L’appel de propositions du Forum des revues étudiantes est ouvert ! Cet appel s’adresse aux étudiants canadiens qui participent à la publication de revues étudiantes ou qui s’y intéressent. The English version is available here.

Our REST API makes all of the metadata we hold publicly available. It receives the majority of our API traffic, with around 1 billion hits per month. It’s one of the key ways that we fulfil our mission to make research objects easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.

The Student Journal Forum Call for Proposals is open! The call is open to students in Canada who are involved with or interested in student journal publishing. Version française disponible ici.

It is with great excitement that we release DeepForest 2.0! This is the first major release since the project took shape in its current form. The codebase has been updated to match modern machine learning workflows, including better command line tools, configurations and package management.

I’ve dabbled a bit with napari – the python-based image viewer – but never needed to use it seriously. I had a real use case so I thought I’d write up the process of how I got going with napari, in case it helps others.