Musing sabout librarianship - Substack A Home Full of Memories—And a New Door Opening When I first hit “Publish” on Musings About Librarianship on Blogger back in 2009, I was a wet behind the ears librarian nervously sharing half-baked thoughts. I never imagined that my tiny blogger corner would grow into a gathering place for thousands of curious colleagues around the world.

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por Valentina Tovar Mota Áurea Maya Alcántara, Ópera y gastos secretos. Su producción en México en la primera mitad del siglo XIX, México, Ediciones de Educación y Cultura, 2023. El libro de la historiadora Áurea Maya, Ópera y gastos secretos.

Ted Habermann, Metadata Game Changers Cite this blog as Habermann, T. (2025). DataCite Metadata Continues to Add Capabilities. Front Matter. https://doi.org/10.59350/wgret-2kd02 During 2021, I chronicled how the DataCite metadata schema had evolved to improve the capability to address many of the FAIR principles from 2011 to 2019 (Habermann, 2021). That discussion covered schema versions up to V4.3 which was released during late 2019.

Last month I mapped a working definition of game (ludus) and ludeme (conceptual units of a game and play) in preparation for an upcoming article on ludemes and programming video games. I went through many of better know attempts for a definition and asked myself where my own perspective differs and what my approach needs to express.

I could not find the time earlier to report (reason), but three weeks ago we passed the fourth milestone release of the CCZero IUPAC names found in literature collection. This release contains 200026 IUPAC names, 168702 unique names, reflecting 116207 unique InChIKeys. Time for an update of the One Million IUPAC names project.

Last week, the Wikidata and Sister Projects event tooks place. The presentations are recorded, and I strongly encourage you to check the schedule. One presentation I liked (there are more), was the one by Mike Peel with the title “Best practices for reusing Wikidata’s data in the Wikimedia Projects”. At some point he walks us through the {{Cite Q}} template, around 26:07.

I was having a pretty good week last week, until we got to the closing minutes of play. At that point, I learned that Amsterdam University Press (AUP) had been acquired by the for-profit corporate publishing behemoth Taylor & Francis. This is not really a surprise in some ways. AUP had been transformed into a private, for-profit enterprise in 2019.

This week the 13th International Conference on Chemical Structures took place (see also this Scholia overview or this overview of the full ICCS history). This is the conference I first joined 20 years ago as a PhD student presenting a poster (see these past blog posts). Of course, I am actually co-organizer nowadays (actually, co-treasurer). Organizing a meeting with just over 200 participants, and I like to thank Gerard and Willem in

I stayed on for a few days extra in Washington DC after the biodiversity extravaganza to attend a workshop at legendary National Geographic Basecamp.

tl;dr: Inspired by this conversation started by Ethan Marcotte, I’ve gone ahead and added a small link blog to this website too. Instead of having links of interest disappear into the stream of time that is my Mastodon timeline, I thought it would be nice to collect them also here, in a more findable way.