On October 16, 2024, the Rogue Scholar Advisory Board met for the second time since it started in January 2024. Since January Rogue Scholar has achieved several major milestones. In May, DOI registration was switched to using a new commonmeta Go library. This switch allows faster and more flexible DOI registrations and updates (supporting both Crossref and DataCite), which now routinely happen within minutes of blog post publication.

Last Friday I attended a workshop by the Infra Wiss Blogs project in Berlin.

Starting this week, users of the science blog archive Rogue Scholar can sign in into the service using their ORCID credentials.

The latest update of the Rogue Scholar science blog archive this week improves the finding and tracking of science blog post references, both on the website and in the API. This update again takes advantage of functionality of the InvenioRDM repository platform, with some minor tweaks.

Last week I reported that the commonmeta Go library can now directly register metadata with Crossref and InvenioRDM repositories.

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar depends heavily on GitHub Actions. They are used to trigger content and metadata extraction of new blog posts and to register DOIs for these posts with Crossref. More recently they have also been used to push this content and metadata to the new InvenioRDM-based Rogue Scholar platform. GitHub Actions are workflows that typically operate on the command line.

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar was relaunched on the InvenioRDM repository platform last week. While there is still a lot of migration work to do in the coming months, this is a good time to start the Rogue Scholar 111 Pledge Drive today.

The science blog archive Rogue Scholar relaunched on a new platform today. Now running on the InvenioRDM repository platform, Rogue Scholar continues to improve science blogs in important ways, including full-text search, long-term archiving, DOIs and metadata, and now also communities . The fundamental services that Rogue Scholar provides have not changed.

From October 21 to 27 is International Open Access Week 2024, and this blog post summarizes my contribution for 2024. The title of this post was taken from a blog post by my friend and colleague Heinz Pampel on Monday, and we again have many events related to International Open Access Week this week, as well as some blog posts. This brings me to Rogue Scholar, the science blog archive I launched in 2023 which is the main focus of my work.

Last week I integrated the InvenioRDM API with the Rogue Scholar API, enabling the automated export of metadata to the InvenioRDM platform. As of today, 5,046 (28.8%) blog posts have been exported to InvenioRDM and can be explored via UI and API, The export currently includes most metadata, but support for references, relations and funding information still needs to be added, as does the export of full-text in markdown and PDF formats.

The Rogue Scholar infrastructure started migrating to InvenioRDM infrastructure a few weeks ago. This first phase of the migration will conclude on November 4 with the switch of the Rogue Scholar frontend (rogue-scholar.org) to InvenioRDM (to what is currently hosted at beta.rogue-scholar.org).InvenioRDM record For the most part and not by coincidence, InvenioRDM is a very good fit for Rogue Scholar.