On June 14 I was invited to present at the CZI Open Science 2024 event. I was asked to participate in “Case Study Session 3: Demonstrating Impact of Open Science” and to explore the challenges of using traditional academic metrics for measuring project impact with an emphasis on alternative approaches. I was very excited to share our experiences and to learn from others projects. Here I present a summary of this talk.

I am very pleased to say that my book, _Theses on the Metaphors of Digital-Textual History_, is out today!

Las conmemoraciones del bicentenario de la Independencia (Tucumán, 2016) Parte 1 Por Tamara Judith Yedlin Las conmemoraciones del Bicentenario de la Independencia de las Provincias Unidas de Sudamérica constituyen observatorios privilegiados para pensar sobre los usos públicos de la historia.

Earlier this month the Rogue Scholar science blog archive reached another important milestone: 100 science blogs registered and archived (with in total 16,179 posts). Rogue Scholar launched twelve months ago and this rate of adoption of the service has greatly surpassed my expectations. To celebrate this milestone, Rogue Scholar will drop all fees for blog authors going forward.

Hinweis: Dieser Blogbeitrag ist zuerst am 27.05.24 auf dem Open Access Blog Berlin unter der Lizenz CC BY 4.0 international erschienen. Am 14. März 2024 tauschten sich die drei Landesinitiativen openaccess.nrw, Vernetzungs- und Kompetenzstelle Open Access Brandenburg (VuK) und das Open-Access-Büro Berlin (OABB) über Open Access Monitoring auf Landesebene aus.

DataCite use cases around the world: Welcome to our blog series shining a spotlight on how research institutions integrate DataCite infrastructure into their systems and workflows.

A new missive has appeared from the ever-prolific , this time about Antonio Gramsci’s much quoted ‘interregnum’:ChartbookChartbook 298 Built not Born - against "interregnum"-talk (Hegemony Notes #2) "The crisis consists precisely in the fact that the old is dying and the new cannot be born;

Some thoughts on watching genre movies and observing visual clusters.

It's always frustrating to find errors in a work that has already gone to press/been through peer review, but unfortunately my friend Pete Christian has unearthed a few minor mistakes that I want to put out here. Thanks to Pete, who also says that none of this detail affects the overall argument of the text. On p. 154, I’ve made a mistake when quoting Hollander – he says (correctly) that “home” is a Germanic word.

GitHub recently previewed ‘Copilot Workspace’, which aims to use generative AI to assist software developers. Rather than just giving in-line suggestions, as GitHub copilot does, workspace allows users to map out and execute entire projects. We got early preview access to the tool, so decided to see how well it performed for our needs in Epiverse-TRACE.

According to Gavi, “community-based monitoring” or “CBM” is a process where service users collect data on various aspects of health service provision to monitor program implementation, identify gaps, and collaboratively develop solutions with providers. Community-based monitoring (CBM) has emerged as a promising strategy for enhancing immunization program performance and equity.