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.

In August v.12.0 of the InvenioRDM turn-key research data management repository was released, the first long-term support (LTS) release of the open source software since January 2023. This release enabled the migration of the Rogue Scholar infrastructure to the InvenioRDM platform, a process that will take the next four months. Deployment The first stage of the migration was setting up the InvenioRDM production infrastructure.

Version 7 of the open source reference manager Zotero was released last Friday. Read the linked announcement for details, but the most excited feature for me is an improved built-in reader with ePub support. Zotero allows you to store metadata and full-text publications and while PDF is the standard format for journal articles and preprints, books (and book chapters) are more commonly distributed as ePub files.

Earlier this month the Rogue Scholar science blog archive reached another important milestone: 100 science blogs registered and archived (with in total 16,179 posts). Rogue Scholar launched twelve months ago and this rate of adoption of the service has greatly surpassed my expectations. To celebrate this milestone, Rogue Scholar will drop all fees for blog authors going forward.

Today I am happy to announce the first beta release of InvenioRDM Starter. InvenioRDM is an open source repository management platform developed by more than 25 organizations coordinated by CERN. The release of the next major version (v12.0) will happen in a few weeks, with the second release candidate released on May 31st. InvenioRDM Starter aims to make installing InvenioRDM easy via a prebuilt Docker image and Docker Compose file.