Ted Habermann, Metadata Game ChangersJargon and acronyms are well known culprits to understanding in the scientific literature and many scientific writing guidelines include “avoid jargon” and “spell out all acronyms”. One might expect that these guidelines would apply even more emphatically in the metadata realm, where the information space is prescribed and to some extent abbreviated.
As we step into the new year, we reflect on the achievements of the Europe PMC team in 2025. Celebrating key developments shaped by user feedback, implementation of cutting-edge AI solutions, and continued commitment to supporting open science.
rOpenSci’s activities and spaces are supported by a Code of Conductthat applies to all people participating in the rOpenSci community,including rOpenSci staff and leadership.It applies to all modes of interaction including GitHub project repositories,the rOpenSci discussion forum, Slack, Community Calls, Co-working and social sessions, training and mentoring sessions,and in person at rOpenSci-hosted events, including affiliated social
Las actividades y espacios de rOpenSci cuentan con el marco de un Código de Conducta (CoC)que se aplica a todas las personas que participan en la comunidad de rOpenSci,incluido el personal y la dirección de rOpenSci.Se aplica a todos los modos de interacción, incluidos los repositorios de proyectos de GitHub,el foro de debate de rOpenSci, Slack, eventos online como “Conversaciones con la comunidad”, sesiones de co-trabajo, talleres
Google Antigravity is Google’s new agentic development platform, designed to shift the focus from writing lines of code to orchestrating complex tasks. Built as a fork of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), it re-imagines the developer experience around managing autonomous agents.
A TCIP Primer and Roadmap for 2026
LinkML enables defining data models and data schemas in YAML informed by semantic web best practices. As such, each definition includes a prefix map. Similarly to my previous posts on validating the prefix maps appearing in Turtle files and in unfamiliar SPARQL endpoints, this post showcases describes a new extension to the Bioregistry that validates prefix maps in LinkML definitions.
For most of human history, science has been communicated through the spoken word. Knowledge moved from person to person through oral storytelling and apprenticeship style training. Writing helped to fix ideas in time and allowed for greater reach. Science spread through personal correspondence and in-person gatherings. The invention of the printing press was the beginning of truly widespread knowledge distribution.
A few months back I was invited by Issues in Science and Technology to write a response to The Real Returns on NIH’s Intramural Research | Real Numbers by Jeffrey Alexander and Rossana Zetina-Beale. The reply was published on December 16th, and - no surprises here given my previous article for the Good Science Project - the basic premise is that NIH Intramural Research Program (IRP) data represents an additional return on taxpayer investment.
Appalachian History Series – Pine Mountain Settlement School: A Mountain School on the Crest of Change High on the north slope of Pine Mountain in Harlan County, Kentucky, a narrow valley opens just enough for a campus of stone and timber buildings, gardens, and fields. Since 1913, Pine Mountain Settlement School has watched over that valley and the families who live along Isaac’s Run, Shell Run, and Greasy Creek.
Appalachian History Series – Black Mountain Coal Company and the Camp at Kenvir In a 1946 photograph by Russell Lee, the tipple of Mine 31 rises over a narrow hollow at Kenvir while rows of company houses climb the slope behind it. Men move coal, children and laundry hang on porches, and the whole scene feels at once ordinary and precarious.