Yesterday I renamed the Front Matter blog to blog.front-matter.de, i.e. changing the top-level domain from .io to .de. I did this for two reasons: * The internet country code top-level domain .io has a complicated history, and I wanted to migrate away from it for some time.
Some quick notes based on experiments with Model Context Protocol (MCP) and (Claude](https://claude.ai). Model Context Protocol (MCP) is all the rage right now, and I’ve been slow to take a look. Kingsley Idehen recently wrote The Semantic Web Project Didn’t Fail — It Was Waiting for AI (The Yin of its Yang) where he argued that Large Language Models (LLMs) provide (finally) a user-friendly way to query triple stores (i.e., knowledge graphs).
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the largest book fair in the world, and therefore a key event on our calendar. Held annually in Frankfurt, Germany, the 77th Frankfurt Book Fair (October 15–19, 2025) saw 118,000 trade visitors and 120,000 private visitors from 131 countries.
On November 6 2025, we participated in the Workshop “Resilience in Times of Crisis: Strengthening Open Science Against Geopolitical Pressures” at the CWTS in Leiden. The workshop made reference to the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science (UNESCO 2021), which presented an extensive and inclusive vision for Open Science when they were published in 2021.
I've just released geotessera 0.7 to pypi for our TESSERA geospatial foundation model, following on from the first release earlier this year. To recap: With this new release, there's convenient documentation to show how you can freely access 150TB+ of CC-BY-licensed embeddings of the earth's surface.
SummaryJWTForge is a lightweight, open-source JSON Web Token (JWT) (RFC 7519) vending service designed specifically for developers and security researchers who need to test or surface vulnerabilities in the OAuth2 (RFC 6749) and OpenID Connect (OIDC) (see here) implementations.
Don’t miss your chance to join LIS-Bibliometrics 2025, the annual conference for library and information professionals, researchers, and practitioners working with bibliometrics and research evaluation.
There's a buzz forming around the upcoming AI Impact Summit next year in India, following up the AI Safety Summit here and the France Action Summit earlier this year. I headed down to a couple of events in London this week to help set the agenda, particularly around the importance of FAIR and ethical AI for sustainability being on the political agenda.
🔗Why we created Computo The idea of Computo was born out of a desire to foster a deeper scientific understanding as well as a need to address several challenges in the current scientific publishing landscape, especially within statistics and machine learning.
TL;DR. Metadata Manager will be retired at the end of 2025.
We are pleased to announce the publication of our third guide from the BMFTR-funded (Federal Ministry for Research, Technology and Space) project “Professionalisierung der Open-Access-Repositorien-Infrastruktur in Deutschland (Pro OAR DE)”: “Zweitveröffentlichung: Handlungsfeld für institutionelle Open-Access-Repositorien” (available in German only). Matthias, L. Pampel, H., Khamis, C. O. &