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NewsletterRogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
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This is the second issue of the new monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter reports on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users. The big news this month is Rogue Scholar reaching another major milestone: 25,000 archived science blog posts!

Rogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
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The statistics page for the Rogue Scholar science blog archive was relaunched today, as Rogue Scholar reaches the major milestone of 25,000 archived science blog posts later this week, and the work on updating all blog posts to content type blog post and including each of them in a subject area community has been concluded.Blog Posts by Year This page is new and shows the number of blog posts by year.

Rogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
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The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has started to automatically add all blog posts to the subject area community of the blog. Today I am adding another automatic community workflow: if a blog post uses tags or categories that exist as Rogue Scholar topic communities, the post is automatically added to these communities.

Rogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
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The Rogue Scholar science blog archive has started to automatically add all blog posts to the subject area community of the blog. Rogue Scholar uses the 48 OECD Fields of Science and Technology subject areas since September 2023 and blog authors pick a subject area when they join Rogue Scholar.

Rogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
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In a few weeks, the Rogue Scholar science blog archive will reach the milestone of 25,000 archived science blog posts, each with a DOI and metadata and searchable via full-text search. With this number of blog posts, it is now time to start using a dedicated content type, and last week Rogue Scholar started the migration to the B logPost content type.

Rogue ScholarNewsletterComputer and Information Sciences
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This is the first issue of a new monthly newsletter from the Rogue Scholar science blog archive. The newsletter will report on new blogs that have joined the platform, important technical updates in Rogue Scholar infrastructure, community updates, and other news relevant to Rogue Scholar users.Blogs added to Rogue Scholar Seven blogs were added in January.

Rogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
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The Rogue Scholar science blog archive continues to grow, with seven new blogs added this month and more than 24,000 archived blog posts. Luckily, onboarding new blogs is mostly automated, with the Rogue Scholar API handling the blog setup and blog post ingestion from RSS feeds. Some questions frequently come up and I try to improve the Rogue Scholar documentation to address them.

Rogue ScholarComputer and Information Sciences
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Continuing the work on streamlining the DOI assignment for new blog posts in the Rogue Scholar science blog archive, I discovered and fixed a major bug. Rogue Scholar DOIs strings are generated from a random number and include a checksum. It turns out that this checksum was wrong, affecting all Rogue Scholar posts generated with the commonmeta Go library between May 2024 and today.