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.
Changelog 6a21a44eaa672b58294296c7b206d2da38ca1e90 fix base32 encoding bug that broke checksum check 326f592d09ba1c5b991667f2ea06cbf658054cb5 version bump
Starting this week, all DOIs for the Rogue Scholar blog posts are registered and updated using the new commonmeta Go library, replacing the commonmeta Python library. Authors and readers of blogs archived by Rogue Scholar shouldn't notice a difference, but going forward this change will make it easier to manage the DOIs (close to 16K DOIs for currently 93 blogs) registered for Rogue Scholar blog posts.
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.
In 1998 Tim Berners-Lee coined the term cool URIs (1998), that is URIs that don’t change. We know that URLs referenced in the scholarly literature are often not cool, leading to link rot (Klein et al., 2014) and making it hard or impossible to find the referenced resource.