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).
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. &
Our REST API makes all of the metadata we hold publicly available. It receives the majority of our API traffic, with around 1 billion hits per month. It’s one of the key ways that we fulfil our mission to make research objects easy to find, cite, link, assess, and reuse.
I got to shake Jensen Huang's hand as he received the 2025 Hawking Fellowship this evening at the Cambridge Union! He's a fitting winner for this award; he's not only tech's longest running CEO (33 years!), but also a founding engineer who deeply understands the technology stack. He also bucks the trend among bigtech and famously doesn't believe in firing people, preferring to "torture them into greatness" [1] instead.