I recently found myself working with Altmetric badges again, and I realized how cumbersome it can be to work with scripts. The Altmetric badges can only be added by using their JavaScript library, while it would be a lot more user friendly to have a simple URL that embeds the badge, preferably even an image.

Citation.js has supported Wikidata input for a long time. However, I’ve always had some trouble with the API.

I finished the General Plugin system for Citation.js a few days ago (more on that later), so I could finally publish a new beta release. Now, after that half-finished piece of code had been blocking other work for a long while, I can at last start… fixing bugs, and closing other items in the backlog. One of the items that has been on the backlog for a long time, and was on the backlog of the previous major version too, was sorting out BibJSON.

I’m going to share some stories on debugging with you, because I’m proud of them. After writing up the first story, I’m no longer particularly proud, but I still want to share the story. Here’s the first: a bug that seemed quite familiar. After some trouble with mocking API requests I decided that supporting mocking in the browser isn’t as important as supporting mocking at all, so I installed mock-require (I didn’t get proxyquire to work).

I promised more photos in the previous post, so here they are. Penicillium: Detail With conidiophores Detail of conidiophores More fungi: Cat brains: This post is part of a series.

It’s been a while. Really. But now it’s back, with a new release: v0.4.0-0, the v0.4 beta. Below I explain some of the changes in this release, and then the road-map of Citation.js for v0.4 and v0.5. Also, Citation.js has a DOI now: Also, @jsterlibs tweeted about Citation.js. Release Input plugins The main change in this release, is the addition of input plugins. This is the first step towards releasing v0.4, as explained below.

Below is part two of a small series on ctj rdf, a new program I made to transform ContentMine CProjects into SPARQL-queryable Wikidata-linked rdf. Here’s a more detailed example. We are using my dataset available at 10.5281/zenodo.845935. It was generated from 1000 articles that mention ‘Pinus’ somewhere. This one has 15326 statements, whereof 8875 (57.9%) can be mapped, taking ~50 seconds.

Below is part one of a small series on ctj rdf, a new program I made to transform ContentMine CProjects into SPARQL-queryable Wikidata-linked rdf. ctj has been around for longer, and started as a way to learn my way into the ContentMine pipeline of tools, but turned out to uncover a lot of possibilities in further processing the output of this pipeline (1, 2). The recent addition of ctj rdf expands on this.

A while back I tweeted about making a simple Citation.js API Endpoint with RunKit.

It’s been in beta since January 30, but here it is: Citation.js version 0.3. Below I explain the changes since the last blog post, and under that is a more complete change log. Also some upcoming changes.