This week the Rogue Scholar science blog archive experienced major upgrade pains, and Rogue Scholar search became unavailable from Tuesday until Thursday. I tried to upgrade to a pre-release version (13.0.0b4.dev0) of the InvenioRDM repository software, and ran into multiple issues. Going back to the previously installed v12.1.0 took longer than anticipated, mainly because of issues with the Opensearch index.

This is the May issue of the monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive.

Today I released a new version of the commonmeta-py Python library with major improvements in Crossref DOI registration, including refactoring to use the Python marshmallow library, XML schema validation, and API calls to Crossref and InvenioRDM instances via the commonmeta-py command-line interface.Using the marshmallow library Marshmallow is a popular Python library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.

Last week I released updated Python, and Go versions of the commonmeta library that can now read metadata from OpenAlex. OpenAlex is an open index of over 250 million scholarly works from 250k sources.

Rogue Scholar archives the content of currently more than 150 science blogs with more than 40,000 blog posts. In this blog post, I want to clarify the guidelines that Rogue Scholar tries to follow regarding authorship.

Personal names remain among the hardest scholarly metadata to capture properly, including for science blog posts.

This is the April 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 Nine blogs from six different subject areas were added in April. Welcome everybody!

This post is an updated version of the DOI registration workflow for a science blog post I published in September 2023. It reflects the best practices used by the Rogue Scholar science blog archive and contains one important announcement. In previous blog posts such as the one published earlier, I discussed the various elements involved in registering a DOI for a science blog post.

The commonmeta Go library has seen a major update this week that dramatically simplifies working with the Research Organization Registry (ROR) data dump, including conversion to other serialization formats (e.g. JSON Lines) and metadata formats (InvenioRDM), and integrated affiliation matching.File Download ROR metadata are updated regularly (typically about once a month) and made available as a file download via the Zenodo repository under a

Today, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive launched an important new feature: showing the full-text content (in addition to metadata) of all participating blogs on blog post pages. Rogue Scholar has always stored the full-text internally and made it available via the REST API, as the full-text is needed for archiving and full-text search.

The InvenioRDM project partners met in Hamburg two weeks ago, and we discussed a wide range of topics over five days. InvenioRDM is the open source repository platform that also powers the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, and one priority for me is to keep the repository platform's maintenance simple while adding the features I need.