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. Rogue Scholar blog posts are scholarly content and thus follow the same basic guidelines as other scholarly outputs, such as journal articles, preprints, or book chapters.

Personal names remain among the hardest scholarly metadata to capture properly, including for science blog posts. This week, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive therefore changed how it stores blog post author names: no longer as name, which is the standard in RSS, Atom, and JSON Feeds, but as name only for an organizational author, and as given and family name for personal authors.

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.

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.

This is the third 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 Four blogs from four different subject areas were added in March. Welcome everybody!

Next week the InvenioRDM community will meet in Hamburg for five days to discuss the open source repository platform. Front Matter has been part of the InvenioRDM community since August 2021, and Rogue Scholar relaunched on the InvenioRDM platform in October 2024. The last workshop of the InvenioRDM partners took place in March 2024 in Münster, so this is the first meetup where I am running a production instance of InvenioRDM.

This blog has joined the Fediverse as @index@blog.front-matter.io, thanks to a major beta update of the underlying Ghost blogging platform. Read about Activitypub support in Ghost here.

The Rogue Scholar dashboard is taking shape. The statistics page has been renamed to dashboard, still linked from the Rogue Scholar footer. More work has been done to expose key indicators of the science blog archive, focussing on OpenSearch Search Facets.